Jeff Wedding

Assistant Research Scientist, Archaeology

Phone

702-862-5545

E-Mail

Jeff.Wedding@dri.edu

Campus

Las Vegas Campus

Office

Rogers 313

Division

Earth and Ecosystem Sciences

Contact Card

Publications

2025

Menocal, T. M., Wedding, J. R., Brannan, N. F., & O’Neill, L. (2025). An Architectural Survey of the U12g Tunnel Historic District, Nevada National Security Site, Nye County, Nevada, DOE/NV/89233122CNA000255-31 / Desert Research Institute Cultural Resources Technical Report 126

2024

Haynes, G. & Wedding, J. R. (2024). A Section 110 Evaluation of the Huron King Test Chamber, Area 3, Nevada National Security Site, Nye County, Nevada , 1-65. Desert Research Institute: Las Vegas

Brannan, N. F., Menocal, T. M., & Wedding, J. R. (2024). Supplemental Identification, Evaluation, and Finding of Effect for the Proposed Demolition at U12g Tunnel, Area 12, Nevada National Security Site, Nye County, Nevada, Desert Research Institute Cultural Resources Report SR011024-2

2023

Hanks, M., Edwards, S. C., Wedding, J. R., & Conlin, D. (2023). Lake Mead’s Cold War Legacy: The Aviation Archaeology of a B-29 Superfortress Whitehead, H., Lickliter-Mundon, M. (Eds.) Chapter : Lake Mead’s Cold War Legacy: The Aviation Archaeology of a B-29 Superfortress. In Whitehead, H., Lickliter-Mundon, M. (Eds.), Strides Towards Standard Methodologies in Aeronautical Archaeology, Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology, 107-135. Springer Nature Switzerland AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40963-9

Menocal, T. M., Wedding, J. R., & O’Neill, L. (2023). Identification, Evaluation, and Finding of Adverse Effect for the Proposed Demolition of Five Buildings in Area 12, Nevada National Security Site, Nye County, Nevada, Desert Research Institute Cultural Resources Report SR120122-1

2022

Collins, C. M., Reno, R. L., Lancaster, J., Wedding, J. R., & Edwards, S. C. (2022). An Architectural Survey of the Area 1 Subdock, Nevada National Security Site, Nye County, Nevada

2021

Lancaster, J., Wedding, J. R., & Reno, R. L. (2021). Boundary and Landscape Documentation for the Area 1 Subdock Historic District, Nevada National Security Site, Nye County, Nevada, LR121420-1

O’Neill, L., Menocal, T. M., Wedding, J. R., & Collins, C. M. (2021). Area 6 Control Point: An Architectural Survey of the Area 6 Control Point, Nevada National Security Site, Nye County, Nevada, DOE/NV/0003590-72 / Desert Research Institute Cultural Resources Technical Report 121

Menocal, T. M., O’Neill, L., Wedding, J. R., & Collins, C. M. (2021). Historic Significance and Current Condition Assessment of Building 06-CP-170, the Yucca Flat Weather Station, Area 6, Nevada National Security Site, Nye County, Nevada, DOE/NV/0003590-66 / Desert Research Institute Cultural Resources Report SR051321-1

Menocal, T. M., O’Neill, L., Wedding, J. R., & Collins, C. M. (2021). Historic Significance and Current Condition Assessment of Building 06-CP-10, Device Assembly Building, Area 6, Nevada National Security Site, Nye County, Nevada, DOE/NV/0003590-65; DRI Cultural Resources Report SR021021-1

2020

Lancaster, J., Wedding, J. R., & King, M. L. (2020). A Historic Context and Mitigation Documentation for a Portion of the U12n Tunnel Ventilation and Containment Systems, Area 12, Nevada National Security Site, Nye County, Nevada

Lancaster, J., Wedding, J. R., Edwards, S. C., & Menocal, T. M. (2020). A Cultural Resources Inventory for the Proposed Expansion of the U1a Modernization Project, Area 1, Nevada National Security Site, Nye County, Nevada, SR020520-1

Menocal, T. M., Wedding, J. R., & King, M. L. (2020). Identification and Evaluation of 14 Architectural Resources Scheduled for Demolition, Area 6 Control Point and Vicinity, Nevada National Security Site, Nye County, Nevada, Desert Research Institute Cultural Resources Report SR060920-1

2019

Reno, R. L., Edwards, S. C., Collins, C. M., Wedding, J. R., & Drollinger, H. D. (2019). An Architectural Survey of the Test Cell C Historic District, Area 25, Nevada National Security Site, Nye County, Nevada

Reno, R. L., Edwards, S. C., Wedding, J. R., King, M. L., Collins, C. M., & Drollinger, H. D. (2019). A Revised Architectural Survey of the Nuclear Engine Maintenance Assembly and Disassembly Facility, Area 25, Nevada National Security Site, Nye County, Nevada

Edwards, S. C. & Wedding, J. R. (2019). A Section 110 Evaluation of the Project 57 Rad-Safe Area Personnel Decontamination Building, Nye County, Nevada

2018

Hamilton-Brehm, S. D., Hristova, L. T., Edwards, S. C., Wedding, J. R., Snow, M., Kruger, B. R., & Moser, D. P. (2018). Ancient human mitochondrial DNA and radiocarbon analysis of archived quids from the Mule Spring Rockshelter, Nevada, USA,. PLoS One, 13(3), Article ID: e0194223

2017

Schneider, J. S., Warren, C. N., Wedding, J. R., Winslow, D. L., Rager, H. B., & Prior, C. A. (2017). On the Shores of Silver Lake, Mojave Desert, California: Late Holocene Shoreline Features and Functional Hypotheses. California Archaeology, 9(2), 259-291. https://doi.org/10.1080/1947461X.2017.1391479

Conference Proceedings

2025

Haynes, G., Wedding, J. R., & O’Neill, L. (2025). The Huron King Test Chamber: A Specialized Cold War-Era Property on the Nevada National Security Site. Great Basin Anthropological Conference: Reno, Nevada, October 17, 2025, Invited

2016

Hamilton-Brehm, S. D., Hristova, L. T., Edwards, S. C., Wedding, J. R., & Moser, D. P. (2016). Ancient human mtDNA sequence and radiocarbon analysis of quids from the Mule Springs Rockshelter, Southwestern Nevada. Society of American Archeology (SAA) Meeting: Orlando, FL, May 2016