IARII Chief Executive Officer
Rona has worked in Cultural Resources Management in Hawai‘i, Guam, and the Pacific-Asia region since 1990. She has directed or participated in over 90 burial projects (conducting positive identifications, burial recovery, inventory, and/or analysis of human skeletal remains) and over 75 archaeology projects in the Pacific Islands, Southeast Asia, and Ecuador. Her research interests include human skeletal biology, indicators of stress, paleopathology, health and social status, biocultural adaptations, cultural dental modification, and heritable variation.