After a career as a military officer that included combat service in Vietnam Mr. Pascucci returned to his earlier interests in the natural sciences. He holds a degree in anthropology from Florida Atlantic University where he participated in archaeological field work in Ecuador, and a BA in Speech Arts from Hofstra University. He has held various positions of leadership with the Broward County Archaeological Society, a chapter of the Florida Anthropological Society, and was President from 1997 to 1999. As a volunteer, he helped to establish the paleontology program at the Graves Museum of Archaeology and Natural History where he organized and led field expeditions to Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, and Utah. Mr. Pascucci was named the Museum's Assistant Director of Science and Education in July 2002 and Director of the Graves Museum in December of that year, a position that he held until July 2004.

Mr. Pascucci was a science teacher for the Broward County Public School System from 2004 to 2005 and subsequently served as an archaeological field technician on numerous public archaeology projects including those associated with the restoration of the Everglades. In addition to archaeology, his interests include both physical and cultural anthropology, Classical Studies, and military history which he taught as an Assistant Professor of Military Science at Hofstra University from 1985 to 1989. Mr. Pascucci has also pursued advanced degrees in geoscience at Florida Atlantic University with concentrations in both invertebrate and vertebrate paleontology.