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Project Crew
Setting out on the final day of diving. Front row, l. to r.: Zach,
Cassie, Aposhia, Erica, Lup and Keima. Second row: Dr. Smith, Patrick,
Deidra, Adam, Dr. Bruening, Sarah, Dr. Corbin and Mr. Hall. Wall,
seated: Jake and Nick.
Students
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Team 1: Barracudas |
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Nick
I'm a third year at the Metro School, I like to be outdoors
and indoors sometimes at the same time. Anyways; I am afraid
of the water--- this is quite paradoxical because I love to
scuba dive and kayak and swim and jet ski and swim, and jet
ski some more, but only on the weekends because I do a lot
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Sarah
I’m a junior at the Metro High School. I play soccer, run
track, and ride horses. I love to go tubing, water ski, and
snow ski with my family. My favorite nail polish that I use
when I’m sad is pink raspberry. My favorite sports team is…
well, it's Gryffindor! I’d like to give a shout out to Harry
P: Go Harry!!! Yo da best-ist. Defeat lord Vader. Don’t
believe that stuff about him being your father.
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Erica
I’m going to be entering my third year at metro high school.
I love swimming, biking and ultimate Frisbee. I have
recently, as in the first day of this project, discovered
that I really enjoy snorkeling. Especially considering I now
know how to breathe with the snorkel. I look forward to
seeing lots of different fish on this trip.
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Team 2: Shark Bait |
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Aposhia
I am a sophomore at Metro High School. My favorite subject
is reading. I like to sing, hang out with friends and talk
on the phone. I was interested in coming on this trip
because I felt that it was a great opportunity and I like
the marine biology involved.
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Deidra
I
am a junior at Metro High School. I love math and science. I
spend my free time mostly outside and enjoy the warm summer
weather.
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Adam
I
am not a junior at Gahanna Lincoln High School; Instead, I
choose to partake in education at Metro High. I enjoy
playing almost any sport, and love to do the extreme ones
like skiing, rock climbing, white water rafting, and now
snorkeling. In the next two years at Metro, I hope to delve
deeper into the fields of marine biology and entomology in
order to pursue a career in one.
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Team 3: Mermaids |
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Zach
I
am a third year student at Metro High School. I am a person
who loves to travel and spend time near or on water. I am a
soccer player and an active athlete. I am a person that is
willing to work my hardest at a job. I can’t wait for the
snorkeling and scuba diving to begin.
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Guadalupe
I
am a third year student at Metro High School. I love to
volunteer my spare time and help those who need it most. My
favorite color is pink. In my spare time I enjoy swimming
and spending time with my friends. This is my first time
snorkeling and I hope to enjoy it.
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Keima
I
am a second year student at Metro High School and I happen
to be very anxious about having this opportunity to
experience snorkeling for my very first time. I am the
second oldest of 7 girls and 1 boy. I’m currently a member
of not only a cheerleading squad but a dance squad as well.
I’m a very spirited, positive, and creative person. I enjoy
singing, dancing, reading, sleeping, and my all time
favorite talking of course. I’m expecting to not only grow
in my snorkeling skills but to gain more overall knowledge,
to be exposed to new material, and improve my independency!
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Team 4: The Marmalade Boyz
and Girl |
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Cassie
I
am currently a third year at Metro High School. My interests
include athletics, reading, the ocean, and learning in
general. I hope to further study marine sciences in the
future.
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Patrick
I
am currently a second year at Metro High School. My
interests include: long walks on the beach, shoes, kittens,
Bear facts, sports and whatnot, and hanging out with
friends. I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up,
there are plenty of options for me.
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Jake
I
am currently a second year at Metro High School. My
interests include: Music, Sports, playing the Guitar. I hope
to further my career as a musician, a physician, an engineer
and a business man.
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Instructors
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Annalies Corbin, PhD
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) and the
recently-published
The Life
And Times of the Steamboat Red Cloud: How Merchants, Mounties,
And the Missouri Transformed the West (2005), 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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Andrew Bruening , PhD
Andrew Bruening serves as the Natural Systems and Physics
teacher for the ninth grade. While at the University of South
Carolina, Dr. Bruening taught Introduction to Geology, Earth
Resources, and Geology of the National Parks. He also published
a paper in the International Journal of Coal Geology
and presented at the Southeastern Geological Society of America
Conference. Prior to his graduate studies, Dr. Bruening served
as a Physics, Earth Science, and Physical Science teacher at
Charlotte Catholic High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. He
is passionate about Science and conveys this excitement to his
students. He challenges his students by involving them in
research as early as possible. Dr. Bruening has taken a leading
role in other PAST-affiliated projects such as
Garbology
and the
2007 Florida Keys Program.
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Sheli O.Smith, PhD
Dr. Sheli O. Smith joins the PAST Foundation with 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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Andrew W. Hall, MA
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). He wrote the chapter on the interface between
nautical archaeology and the Internet in the International
Handbook of Underwater Archaeology (2002), and has
co-authored several other journal articles. Mr. Hall is a Marine
Archaeological Steward for the Texas Historical Commission, and
served as president of the Southwest Underwater Archaeological
Society. In July 2005 Mr. Hall received an award for outstanding
service as a Marine Archaeological Steward. |
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