Clarksburg Project Crew

 

Sheli O. Smith
Columbus, Ohio
Dr. Sheli O. Smith
a maritime archaeologist by training and loves working to understand the maritime history of her home state of California. She is particularly interested in the maritime trade networks that evolved across the Pacific as a result of the Pacific Gold Rushes in the nineteenth century. She enjoys working with the California State Parks to better understand and protect the state's maritime heritage through archaeological investigation and the creation of maritime parks.

 

John Foster
Fair Oaks, California

John Foster, who describes himself as a "geezer diver," is a Senior Archaeologist with the California Department of Parks and Recreation. He wants
to see this shipwreck identified and perhaps recovered, conserved and displayed to tell the maritime history of the California Gold-Rush.

 

Anne Corscadden
Belfast, Ireland

Anne Corscadden holds a BSc (Honors) in
Archaeology Paleoecology from Queen's University, Belfast, and an MSc in Maritime Archaeology and Coastal Zone Management from the University of Ulster, Coleraine. She holds certifications as a qualified commercial- and surface-supplied diver in addition to her SCUBA certifications. In the U.S., she has worked on shipwreck projects with both East Carolina University and Indiana University.

 

Madeline Eustis
San Fransisco, California

Maddy Eustis is currently the Sailing Director for the San Fransisco Maritime National Parks Association.

 

MJ Harris
Bolinas, California

MJ Harris likes diving and the color purple. She is also a PAST veteran, having been part of the crew on PAST's first major field project, the 2001 Marshall Hotel/Firehole River Project in Yellowstone National Park.

 

Frederick Hanselmann
Bloomington, Indiana

Fritz Hanselmann holds a master's degree from the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs with a focus on submerged cultural resource management and international development, a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Brigham Young University, and is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology. He is currently working on projects in the Dominican Republic and California, with a research focuses on the shipwrecks and submerged sites of the contact period as well as the archaeology of piracy. He is also a certified PADI Assistant Instructor.

 

 

 


 

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