Robert Church, MA
Marine Archaeologist
C&C Technologies, Inc.
Mr. Church has a Masters of Arts degree in Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology from East Carolina University and a Bachelors of Arts degree in History with a minor in Biology from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Prior to joining C&C Technologies in 1998, Mr. Church was employed as an underwater archaeologist by Dr. Gordon Watts at Tidewater Atlantic Research in Washington, North Carolina and a Diving Safety Officer at East Carolina University. 

Mr. Church served as Chief Scientist for the 2004 Deep Wrecks Project. In that capacity, he was responsible for overseeing almost every aspect of the project, including planning, field operations, and facilitating communication between the various contractors, the Minerals Management Service, and Office of Ocean Exploration (NOAA). Mr. Church also was the principal investigator for the archaeological component of the project. 
 

Mr. Church has written over 90 Archaeological Assessment Reports as Principal Archaeologist for marine surveys in the Gulf of Mexico.  A few of these include reporting on the discovery and tentative identification of the tanker, Halo (2000); co-authoring, as principal investigator, the initial report of the discovery of the U-166 and investigation of the SS Robert E. Lee (2001); participating as co-principal investigator in the second U-166 archaeological field project (2003); and evaluating an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) site investigation of the freighter, Alcoa Puritan (2002).  In addition he has worked on a number of shipwreck excavations around the United States and abroad including the excavations of the seventeenth-century “Stone Wall” wreck in Bermuda (1995), the nineteenth-century French Frigate, L'Hermanie (1995), the Civil War gunboat CSS North Carolina (1997), and the Civil War Blockader USS Peterhoff (1998) to name a few.
 

Mr. Church is a member of the Society for Historic Archaeology, the American Academy of Underwater Sciences, Southwestern Geological Society, and the Marine Technology Society.  In 2002, Mr. Church and his colleague Daniel Warren were co-recipients of “The Corporate Leadership Award” from the U. S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service.
 

Melissa Connor, PhD
Associate Director of the Forensic Science Program, Nebraska Wesleyan University
Dr. Connor has 30 years of archaeological experience, and has worked in forensics for the last 10 years. Dr. Connor has exhumed human remains throughout the former Yugoslavia, and in Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Cyprus, Nigeria and, in 2004, Iraq. She teaches Forensic Archaeology and Forensic Anthropology.
 

Anne Corscadden, MSc
Maritime Archaeologist
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.
 

Steve J. Dasovich, PhD
Archaeologist, SCI Engineering, Inc.
Dr. Dasovich is the Head of the Cultural Resource Services Division for SCI Engineering, Inc., a consulting engineering firm based in the St. Louis, Missouri area.  His division conducts compliance and other contract work in the fields of archaeology, architectural history, and history, mostly in Missouri and all surrounding states. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri, teaching their archaeological field schools at the Daniel Boone Home in Defiance, Missouri.

Dr. Dasovich has taught numerous courses for The Florida State University and ran field schools in South Dakota for the University of Missouri.  He has been conducting professional archaeological projects for over 15 years in the Southeast, Midwest, and Great Plains.  His top research interests and areas of expertise in archaeology include the following: Great Plains hunter-gatherers and historic farmsteads, Civil War battlefields, underwater research techniques, and public archaeology. 

He is involved in public and professional organizations.  Currently, he is a member of the Missouri Association of Professional Archaeologists Board of Directors and is the past president and legislative liaison, he is a member of the Development Committee for the Society for Historic Archaeology, he is a member of the Board of Directors for the American Cultural Resources Association, and is a commissioner on the St. Louis County Historic Buildings Commission.  He received his BA in Anthropology from the University of South Dakota, his MS in Anthropology from The Florida State University, and his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Missouri. 
 

Keene Haywood, PhD
National Geographic Society, Washington, DC
Keene Haywood an MFA in Science and Natural History Filmmaking from Montana State University-Bozeman, a PhD in Geography from the University of Texas at Austin, an MA in Marine Affairs from the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS), and a BA in Anthropology also from the University of Miami. His masters and undergraduate degrees involved work in underwater archaeology. This background led to work with ROVs and side-scan sonar to document wrecks in deepwater off Florida's Atlantic coast. Dr. Haywood has also worked on several marine conservation projects related to coral reef preservation in Sri Lanka, the Philippines and the Florida Keys. Additionally, he has worked on various still and video/film projects mostly within the marine realm. He also has worked as a multimedia producer in Austin, Texas developing interactive media for educational purposes. Dr. Haywood is a native Texan originally from Houston.
 

Lori Johnston, MSc
Droycon Bioconcepts
Lori Johnston is a microbial ecologist who was trained at the University of Regina and Royal Roads University, Victoria, British Columbia, and has now specialized in environmental management of various corrosion and biofouling problems in the water, gas and oil sectors. Extreme environments have also interested Johnston and she has been on expeditions to the RMS Titanic (1996, 1998, 2001, 2003), the DMK Bismarck (2002) and the mid-Atlantic ocean ridge (2002) and dove to all three sites conducting scientific experiments some of which are still at the sites for long term studies. She has also actively participated in the 2003 HMHS Britannic Expedition in Greece and the U-166 Expedition in the Gulf of Mexico.  In 2004, expeditions are planned seven wrecks in the Gulf of Mexico, in association with NOAA and Minerals Management Service, as well as RMS Titanic, examining the possible liniments surrounding the ship and the British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal.
 

Wayne R. Lusardi, MA
Alpena, Michigan

In November 2002, Wayne Lusardi became the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve’s Maritime Archaeologist. Mr. Lusaardi works for the Michigan Department of History, Arts, and Libraries as part of the NOAA/State partnership to mange submerged cultural recourses located off Alpena. As Sanctuary archaeologist, Mr. Lusardi is responsible for the research, documentation, preservation, and management of as many as 100 shipwrecks located in Thunder Bay. He is involved in all aspects of fieldwork, research, education, and outreach. As a state employee, he is also responsible for submerged cultural resources throughout Michigan.
 

Mr. Lusardi has an extensive background in underwater and terrestrial archaeology, artifact conservation, and material culture studies. Before arriving at Thunder Bay, Mr. Lusardi was employed as an archaeological conservation for the Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Virginia. He led the museum’s excavation of the USS Monitor’s turret after its recovery in August 2002. Prior to working on the Monitor project, he spent four years on the Queen Anne's Revenge shipwreck project in North Carolina. He also worked as an archaeologist for Tidewater Atlantic Research, Texas A&M University, and the Illinois State Museum. He received his MA degree in Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology from East Carolina University in 1998, and a BS in Anthropology from Illinois State.
 

Rory Matthews
Brighton, United Kingdom
Mr. Matthews is a designer and design consultant, specializing in interactive media for museums, art galleries and other collections. Based in Brighton, England, Mr. Matthews works internationally and has designed or art directed dozens of new media projects ranging in scale from small web sites to some of the largest and most ambitious public kiosk installations and electronic publications yet built. He has specialized in this field since 1989.

Projects include public touchscreen installations and the web site for the British Royal Collection (www.royalcollection.org.uk), the multi-lingual web site www.discovernikkei.org and the award-winning DVD-ROM "The Magical Worlds of Joseph Cornell".  Recently he became design director for the web site of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Ohio (www.clevelandart.org).

Mr. Matthews' web site at www.rorym.com features a selection of projects, with screenshots and links.
 

Nathan Richards, PhD
Assistant Professor, Program in Maritime Studies
East Carolina University
Dr. Richards specializes in nautical archaeology, archaeological theory and is a specialist in watercraft discard and cultural site formation processes of the archaeological record. He has an interest in non-traditional subjects in maritime archaeology focusing on non-shipwreck sites such as ship graveyards, the archaeology of harbor infrastructure, submerged indigenous sites, and maritime terrestrial sites. He has been involved in a number of field schools run by Departments of Archaeology at Flinders University (South Australia), and James Cook University (Queensland), and has been employed in cultural resource management work by the State Governments of South Australia and Tasmania. His research has appeared in the Bulletin of the Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology, The Great Circle (The Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History), and The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology as well as a number of other journal articles, book chapters, and numerous reports. He is co-author (with Robyn Hartell) of The Garden Island Ships’ Graveyard Maritime Heritage Trail (2001).
 

Matthew Russsell, MA
University of California, Berkely
Matthew A. Russell has been an archeologist with the National Park Service Submerged Resources Center (SRC) since 1993. His education includes an M.A. in Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology from East Carolina University and a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from University of California, Santa Barbara.  Since 1993, he has participated in or directed more than 30 projects in national park areas, and for state, federal and international agencies.  He was Deputy Field Director for the H. L. Hunley Recovery Project in 2000 and is Project Director for the USS Arizona Preservation Project.  He has been a member of Society for Historical Archaeology since 1992, is past-Chair of SHA’s UNESCO Committee, and is currently Vice Chair of the Advisory Council for Underwater Archaeology (ACUA).  In addition to a variety of monographs on SRC’s work in national parks, Mr. Russell has published in Historical Archaeology, Journal of Field Archaeology, and International Journal of Nautical Archaeology.  He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley where he is integrating maritime and terrestrial archaeology into a synthetic collaboration to examine culture contact between the shipwrecked crew of a Spanish Manila Galleon and indigenous Coast Miwok in Point Reyes, California in 1595.
 

Dan Warren, MA
Marine Archaeologist
C&C Technologies, Inc.
Mr. Warren is a marine archaeologist for C&C Technologies, Inc., a hydrographic survey company based in Lafayette, Louisiana. Mr. Warren has worked for C&C for the past six years.  At C&C, he conducts marine archaeological and hazard assessments for gas, oil, and submarine cable surveys around the world, as well as terrestrial cultural resources surveys.  Prior to coming to work for C&C, Mr. Warren was employed as an archaeological field technician by the Missouri Department of Transportation in Jefferson City, Missouri.

Mr. Warren has a Bachelors of Arts degree in Anthropology with a minor in History from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and a Masters of Arts in Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology from East Carolina University. He has been employed as a professional archaeologist for 17 years.  In that time he has worked on nautical archaeology projects in the United States, Bermuda, and Australia as well as numerous terrestrial archaeology projects throughout the United States. Mr. Warren is a member of the Marine Technology Society.
 

Andrew J. Weir, MA
Jackson, Michigan
Mr. Weir was born and raised in southern Michigan.  He started working part time for Commonwealth Cultural Resources Group when he was sixteen and has barely looked back since. In 1998, he received his bachelors degree from Western Michigan University in Anthropology and Comparative Religion. After graduation he was hired full time for CCRG. In 2000, he decided that he wanted to pursue a different angle in archaeology.  He enrolled in Maritime History Master’s program at East Carolina University, where he concentrated on Maritime Archaeology.  After completing the program at ECU, he returned to CCRG and has since been trying to get the company more involved with Maritime Archaeology in the Great Lakes.  He is currently working as a Project Archaeologist and the Marketing Coordinator for CCRG.  This is his first of (hopefully many) cooperative field schools.