Who We Are
Lucid Consulting L.L.C. is a small business focused on providing cultural resource management solutions through high-quality services. Our team’s diversity of experience enables us to help clients navigate regulatory environments, with key staff exceeding the Secretary of Interior’s Professional Qualifications Standards (48 FR 44716-42; 36 CFR Part 61).
A focus on small-footprint projects in a localized area allows us to keep the costs of our services competitive. We specialize in serving projects under 15 acres within North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia; however, our team is experienced across many additional states and project types, and we are always happy to discuss your cultural resource management needs. If you would like to discuss your project, request a cost proposal, or have any questions, please reach out to us at admin@consulting-lucid.com.
We specialize in providing the following services. If your cultural resource management needs extend beyond the services listed here, we are still happy to discuss your project and help you find the services you need, please reach out to us at admin@consulting-lucid.com.
Director
Mr. Carlo Lucido has 15 years of professional cultural resource management experience in the federal government, tribal government, and private sectors, spanning multiple US regions. He is an expert in the federal regulatory environment and has direct experience conducting Section 106 compliance reviews and working within multiple state programmatic agreements.
As director of field and lab operations, Carlo draws on his experience managing the excavation of complex sites and conducting laboratory analysis for multi-site artifact assemblage comparative studies. Additionally, Carlo is an experienced software and data engineer and analyst, capable of designing and applying new technologies as creative solutions to project needs.
Principal Investigator
Dr. Cara Lucido is an archaeologist with over 10 years of professional cultural resource management experience in government agencies, private-sector companies, and non-profits. Her project experience spans over 20 states and several regions, with a focus on leading projects across the southeast.
She has led and contributed to numerous successful cultural resource management projects including small- and large-scale Phase I and II archaeological surveys, desktop analyses, archaeological monitoring, cemetery surveys, site interpretive plans, memoranda of agreement (MOA), and targeted research and historic context development. In addition to dozens of cultural resource management reports, Cara has authored multiple peer-reviewed academic journal articles. She is experienced in evaluating projects to determine cultural resource management (CRM) compliance needs.
TESTIMONIALS
Blue Ridge Resource Conservation and Development Council, Inc.
Phase I Archaeological Survey for the UT to Dutch Creek Stream Restoration Project
Western Piedmont Council of Governments
Phase I Archaeological Survey for the Galaxie Drive Home Construction Project
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