Dr. Stettler provides scientific technical editing, technical writing, QA/QC review, and document formatting services. She writes archaeological literature reviews and cultural resource sensitivity studies, historical contexts, and survey reports. She produces documents that comply with federal Section 508 accessibility requirements. She primarily works with documents related to environmental compliance, such as environmental impact statements, environmental assessments, prehistoric and historic archeological survey and mitigation reports, NHPA Section 106 and Section 110 documents, historic structure reports, cultural resource historic contexts, reports on threatened and endangered species (plants and animals), habitat conservation plans, and other similar documents. She also works with business documents and nonfiction books.
She has more than 20 years of experience in environmental consulting and has worked with numerous federal agencies (BLM, DoD, EPA, FHWA, FTA, NPS, USACE, USFS, USFWS). She has worked with state and local agencies in Idaho, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, and other western states, as well as internationally. Dr. Stettler has experience with cultural resource compliance work; critical issues analyses; feasibility studies; due diligence; and environmental permitting for air, water, endangered species, conditional use, and cultural resources (NHPA, NEPA, ESA, special status species, MBTA, BGEPA, CAA, CWA, CERCLA, etc.). Her focus is on the environmental documents that are created to comply with environmental regulations:
Past project experience includes electric transmission, wind energy, solar energy, mining, oil and gas, transportation and transit, railroad, utilities, and other projects. Projects have ranged from site-specific investigations and mitigation to multi-state programmatic and planning-level documents. Dr. Stettler has also testified in court as an expert witness.
Technical editing services focus on consistency, grammar, style, usage, and compliance with Section 508 accessibility regulations. Dr. Stettler ensures documents are well-organized, well-written, and accessible by regulatory agency reviewers, non-specialist reviewers, and the public. Formatting services focus on improving document consistency, organization, accessibility, adherence to brand or company guidelines, and creating document templates. Dr. Stettler works with The Chicago Manual of Style (17th and 18th editions), Scientific Style and Format, and agency-specific or project-specific style guides, and she has deep familiarity with Adobe Acrobat Pro and Microsoft Office suite.
Dr. Stettler is Registered Professional Archaeologist 15236.