October 2009 - Article by Bill Roulette, Thomas Becker, and former AAR employee Stephen Hamilton published in Volume 13 of Archaeology in Washington.   

October 2009 – AAR was selected as a Washington State Department of Transportation on-call cultural resources management firm. 

October 2009 - The Evergreen Public School newspaper (October 2009) contained an  article about AAR archaeologist Jessica Hale teaching Janet Dondelinger’s fourth grade class about archaeology.  Jessica volunteered some of her time to give a hands-on demonstration using artifacts excavated from the Vancouver Convention Center.

September 2009 – AAR was selected as a Marion County, Oregon on-call cultural resources management firm. 

August 2009 – Tom Becker and Curtis Heidrich traveled to Africa and spent their vacations assisting on Ghana’s Kormantse Archaeological Research Project.  The project is led by Dr. Kofi Agorsah, Portland State University.

June 2009 - AAR begins its 13th year.

May 2009 – AAR President, Bill Roulette, was the keynote speaker for Scholar’s Week   for the Western Washington University, Anthropology Department.  Bill spoke on the skills needed to become a successful professional archaeologist.

April 2009 – Erica McCormick presented a poster entitled “Dates of Death: Interpreting Patterns of Interment from a Pioneer Cemetery in Rural Polk County, Oregon, using Cluster Analysis” at the 17th Annual GIS in Action Conference hosted by ASPRS and the Oregon-SW Washington Chapter of URISA.

April 2009 - Thomas Becker re-elected as President of the Association of Washington Archaeologists.  

April 2009 - Fred Anderson, Thomas Becker, Jessica Hale, and Julie Wilt present papers at the 62nd Annual Northwest Anthropological Conferences held at Newport, Oregon.

December 2008 – Jessica Hale was awarded a grant from the Clark County Historical Museum to work with a group of Clark County teachers to create a curriculum which integrates archaeology into the classroom.  Several teachers visited the AAR office and lab to learn more from Jessica about archaeology in Clark County.