David Conlin Archeologist, Submerged Resources Center

Dave Conlin studied anthropology and archeology as an undergraduate at Reed College in Portland Oregon and continued his graduate studies in archeology at Oxford University in England and at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.  His Ph.D. dissertation was on maritime contact and trade routes in the Bronze Age Aegean.  He has been working with the National Park Service since 1993 and was hired full-time as an archeologist in 1999.  He was the field director for the recovery of the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley in 2000, the Ellis Island Ferry in 2002 and the Lake Mead B-29 in 2002 and 2003.