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Annalies Corbin, PhD
Project Director and Executive
Director, PAST Foundation |
Annalies Corbin serves as Executive
Director of the PAST Foundation and oversees the organization's
daily operations. Dr. Corbin is a nautical archaeologist
specializing in inland river transportation and immigration. She
is the author of The Material Culture of Steamboat
Passengers: Archaeological Evidence from the Missouri River
(2000), several chapters in edited works, and articles in
Historical Archaeology, IJNA, Discovering
Archaeology, and Underwater Archaeology. She is the
recipient of numerous state, federal and private grants.
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Jessica Cobb
Tulsa, Oklahoma |
Jessica Cobb is a third year
undergraduate student at the
University of Chicago, majoring in Anthropology and Human
Development. She is an accomplished musician, having played the
piano from age three, and later the violin and trumpet. She
hopes this project will provide valuable experience in actual
archeological fieldwork.
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Anne Corscadden Knox, MSc
Belfast,
Assistant Project Director |
Anne’s research interests include
the archaeology of shipwrecks, maritime cultural landscapes and
submerged cultural resources. She has international experience
in both marine and terrestrial environments, involving G.I.S,
side-scan and sub-bottom sonar. Anne has a Bsc. Honours in
Archaeology from Queens University, Belfast and a Msc. in
Maritime Archaeology from University of Ulster. She is a fully
qualified commercial diver having obtained her HSE Part 1
(surface supplied, wet bell, diver rescue) from Fort William,
Scotland. Anne was appointed Dive Master on a previous PAST
program, Frolic, in 2004, and Assistant Project Director
on the 2006 Florida Keys Field School.
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James Davenport
Powell, Ohio |
James Davenport is entering his
sophomore year as an Anthropology major with a focus in
Archaeology at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He
is originally from Powell, Ohio, and graduated from Olentangy
Liberty High School. He is an Eagle Scout and an Order of the
Arrow Brotherhood member.
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Sam Erdman
New Albany,
Ohio |
Sam Erdman describes himself as an
adventurous outgoing Eagle Scout who loves new experiences. He
wants to travel the world, meet new people, and dive every great
location he can find.
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Doug Faunt
Oakland, California |
Doug Faunt estimates he has
completed about 100 dives, and describes himself as having a
"dilettante interest" in maritime history and literature. He has
traveled all over the world as part of his avocations of reading
and amateur radio.
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Rayanne
Gordon
Mill Valley, California |
Rayanne Gordon is a junior at
Northern Arizona University studying anthropology. She is from a
town just over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, and grew
up loving the beach and being in the water. Her parents say that
she could swim before she could walk, where she got her passion
for scuba diving.
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Andy Hall, MA
Galveston, Texas |
Andy Hall serves as the website
designer and graphic illustrator for the PAST Foundation. He has
served as website developer on several nautical archaeology
projects, including the 1686 wreck of the French ship La
Belle (1995-97), the Civil War blockade runner Denbigh
(1997-2003), and the U-166 Project (2003). In July 2005
Mr. Hall was recognized by the Texas Historical Commission for
outstanding service as a Marine Archaeological Steward.
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Kathleen Harding
Half moon Bay, California |
Kathleen Harding has had a
fascination with all things ancient and it was this love of
history which led her to decide to finish her high school career
in England and to then enroll at the University of Edinburgh,
where she is now currently studying Archaeology.
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Adam Kowalski
Kinnelon, New Jersey |
Adam Kowalski is a sophomore at the
University of Pennsylvania majoring in Anthropology. He
holds advanced open water, wreck diver and rescue diver
certifications. He has served as a volunteer on the Rhode Island
Marine Archaeological Project and completed a course sponsored
by the Nautical Archaeology Society in Portsmouth, England,
United Kingdom.
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Sheli O. Smith, PhD
Director of Opertions, PAST Foundation |
Dr. Sheli O. Smith brings to the
PAST Foundation a strong background in museum work and
archaeological interpretation for both K-12 and public
audiences. Her particular research interests include lifeways at
sea and the ways those are reflected in the layout of ships, and
trade networks in the Pacific in the 18th and 19th centuries.
For the past 20 years, Dr. Smith has focused primarily Gold
Rush-era shipwreck sites, located in California, the South
Pacific and the Indian Ocean. Among the projects she has worked
on in her career are the1779 American privateer brig Defense
(located in Maine), the c. 1710 Ronson Ship (New York), the 1864
American clipper ship Snow Squall (Falkland Islands), the
1859 American barque La Grange (Sacramento), the 1855
American barque Julia Ann (Tahiti), and the Emerald Bay,
California State Underwater Park.
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Marcus Massom
New Orleans, Louisiana |
Marcus Massom is a junior
Anthropology major at the University of Mississippi. He got
certified in SCUBA two years ago. He started assisting with the
OIe Miss SCUBA program right after he got certified and has
worked my way up to Master Diver with over 100 logged dives. He
has always been intrigued by the history behind the shipwrecks
that he has dived, including the USS Oriskany, and always
wanted to know more.
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Mark Melancon
Cecilia, Louisiana |
mark Melancon has served as a Marine
Archaeologist for the past 10 years for a local offshore survey
company conducting archaeological assessments for prehistoric
archaeological sites and historic shipwrecks in the Gulf of
Mexico OCS region based on the interpretation of acquired
geophysical remote sensing equipment (sonar, magnetometer,
bathymetric, subbottom profiler, and various other systems). he
has a special interest in prehistoric archaeological sites in
the Lower Mississippi River Valley, especially lithic and
ceramics technologies. He holds
an undergraduate degree from
University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Anthropology, with a
minor in Geology.
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James Waterbury
Oyster Bay, New York |
James Waterbury is a student in SUNY
Stonybrook majoring in Anthropology. He hopes to be a part of
this to gain experience in underwater archaeology. After
becoming certified as a diver in 2006, he completed two
specialty courses in night diving and navigation.
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Keith Young
Hillsborough, New Jersey |
Keith Young is a freshman at Texas
A&M University at College Station, majoring in Anthropology. He
hope to be able to enroll in the Nautical Archaeology Program at
Texas A&M. He is a member of the Texas A&M chapter of the
National Eagle Scout Association, and in the past served as a
member of the Hillsborough Rescue Squad as a volunteer emergency
medical technician. He has been scuba diving in many different
places including the Florida Keys; however most of his dives are
in the frigid waters of the Northeast.
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Alek Zywot
Centerville, Ohio |
Aleksander Zywot is a sophomore at
Purdue University in Indiana. He enjoys spending time outside
and hanging out with friends as well as traveling the globe and
meeting new people.
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