My Story
Dr. Christopher O’Brien has spent the majority of his life within the field of Anthropology. He received his B.S. degree in Anthropology from University of California, Davis and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. O’Brien spent almost three years in East Africa living with contemporary hunter-gatherers and excavating archaeological sites. He has worked in archaeological survey, excavation, and analysis of collections in North American, Africa, and Europe.
Dr. O’Brien currently works for a land management agency in northern California as a Forest Archaeologist and is also Adjunct Professor at Lassen Community College. In his spare time, Dr. O’Brien hunts, is a competitive shooter, and has recently taken up fly fishing.
The Northstate Science Story
This blog was originally started back in the early 2000s, mostly as a response to the creationist and intelligent design infections in science education. It expanded to other topics including critiques of religion, combating the spread of misinformation regarding archaeology and biblical texts and of course strayed into politics and other aspects of the culture wars. Dr. O’Brien stopped blogging here in 2011 as his career took him into more time consuming positions addressing land management issues. However, he has recently returned to the field in which he was originally trained and sees an opportunity to revise the blog. Being forced to Seeing a necessity to engage on social media, Dr. O’Brien also started Instagram (in the making) and TikTok versions of this blog.
Northstate Science 