ARCHAEO
HAWAI'I
I ulu no ka lālā i ke kumu
TRACY LEO TAM SING
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Tracy Leo Tam Sing has over 30 years of experience in cultural resource management, and serves as the Principal Investigator for Archaeo.Hawaiʻi. He received his B.A. in Business with a minor in Anthropology from Chaminade University, Honolulu followed by an M.A. in Anthropology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He began his career at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in 1992 as a Laboratory and Collections Technician and spent the decades after working extensively in the field of archaeology as a field supervisor on Maui, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi Island, Lānaʻi, Kauaʻi, and Kahoʻolawe. His moʻokūʻauhau takes him back to the districts of Makawao and Hāna on the island of Maui.
LAUREN KEPAʻA-TAM SING
FIELD DIRECTOR
Lauren Kepaʻa-Tam Sing has 15 years of experience in cultural resource management. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, and has extensive field experience working throughout Hawaiʻi Island, Maui, Oʻahu, and Lānaʻi as a field supervisor. Her areas of expertise include all facets of field work including inventory and reconnaissance surveys, field inspections, data recovery, historical background research, community consultation, preservation planning, and burial treatment planning. She traces her mo'okūʻauhau back to Hilo Palikū, Kaʻū, Kohala Hema, and Kona on the island of Hawaiʻi and to Na Wai ʻEhā and Maui Hikina on the island of Maui. She has been trained by Hui Iwikuamoʻo in cultural protocols pertaining to the proper treatment of iwi kūpuna (ancestral bones) and moepū (funerary objects) as well as in reburial practices.