Front row: Seraphya Berrin, Damon Lasiter, Adam Johnson, Jennifer Cobb, Christine Yugay and Kenny Keeping.
Back row: Annalies Corbin, Lisa Tennison, Adam Kowalski, Carrianne Rupp, Carrie Atkins, Stephanie Allen, Max Johnson, Ewa Klopotek and Sheli Smith.

The 2005 PAST Foundation Field School in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is fortunate to have an outstanding crew, drawn from all over the United States and the world at large.
 

	Sheli O. Smith, PhD Principal Investigator, Napa, California
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.
	Annalies Corbin, PhD Co-Principal Investigator, Columbus, Ohio
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.
	Stephanie Allen Amherst, New Hampshire
Stephanie Allen holds a BA in archaeology and material culture from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. She also holds advanced diving certifications and is a qualified emergency medical technician. She is currently a student in the Maritime Studies Program at East Carolina University. She has worked on numerous other archaeological projects, including a post-excavation analysis of the New York African Burial Ground in 2002-03.
	Carrie Atkins Lewiston, Pennsylvania
Carrie Atkins is an undergraduate at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, studying archaeology and biology. Ms. Atkins recently completed a field project with the Coastal Studies Center, focusing on human-plant interactions in prehistoric times. Ms. Atkins' specific assignment was in identifying species of charcoal found at a hearth site at Brewer Cove, Maine, believed to date to AD 1270-1400, using Bowdoin's scanning electron microscope. Away from school, Ms. Atkins is active in kayaking, running and hiking.
	Seraphya Berrin Suffern, New York
Seraphya Berrin is an incoming freshman at Yeshiva University. He has worked previously as a volunteer on several archaeological digs in Israel. He enjoys hiking and touring, deciding which way to go by flipping a coin. Mr. Berrin is a member of the Bnei Akiva Youth Group. He once ran a summer camp where all the camp counselors reporting to him were older than he was.
	Ania Budziak Research Technician, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
Ania Budziak is currently Resident Director of the CIEE Bonaire Study Center in Bonaire, the Netherlands Antilles. Originally from Poland, Ms. Budziak previously served as a research associate in the Office of Underwater Science at Indiana University. She holds a BA in environmental studies from the University of Chicago, and a masters degree in public affairs from Indiana University.
	Jennifer Cobb Greenville, North Carolina
Jennifer Cobb is a PhD student student in Coastal Resources Management at East Carolina University. Ms. Cobb recently worked on the U.S.S. Otsego Project with other ECU students.
	Andy Hall Website Developer, 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.
	Jack Project Mascot, Bora-Bora
Jack (as he was named by the crew) was discovered adrift on a raft in the Society Islands in French Polynesia by a PAST Foundation team in 2004. Adopted on the spot as the foundation's mascot, Jack has settled in well to his role in the organization. Jack brings to the 2005 Slobodna Field School an extensive background of research on graham crackers and pudding. His first series of nautical archaeology illustrations, entitled Boat-boat, is currently in press.
	Adam Johnson Hilo, Hawai'i
Adam Johnson is studying for his masters degree in maritime archaeology at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. He holds a BA in anthropology from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Before graduate school, Mr. Johnson worked in contract archaeology in both Alaska and Hawai'i.
	Max Johnson Columbus, Ohio
Max Johnson is a high school senior. The Slobodna Project is his first archaeological field experience. Mr. Johnson has a strong interest in wrestling and 3D modeling.
	Kenny Keeping Newfoundland, Canada
Kenny Keeping holds several advanced diving certifications. He is currently majoring in archaeology, with a minor in psychology. Mr. Keeping once worked as a mason's apprentice. He has previously worked on a paleo-Eskimo site in Newfoundland, and the American Civil War naval vessel Otsego, in North Carolina. Mr. Keeping is active in a number of sports and activities including Martial arts, motocross, hockey, rugby and boating.
	Carina King Dive Safety Officer, Singapore
Carina King currently teaches sport management at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida. Her research areas include risk recreation, scuba psychographics and youth sport. Carina previously served as a research associate and the Dive Safety Officer at the Office of Underwater Science at Indiana University. Originally from Singapore, Carina loves the outdoors; her hobbies include adventure travel and rock climbing.
	Ewa Klopotek Poland
Ewa Silver is originally from Poland but now lives in Greenville, North Carolina. She holds a masters degree in underwater archaeology from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. She has worked on various underwater sites including medieval bridges, settlements and boats in Poland, Lithuania and the Ukraine. Currently Ms. Silver is a PhD student at East Carolina University in Greenville. Her primary track is Maritime Study and she has a strong interest in the protection of submerged cultural resources.
	Adam Kowalski Kinnelon, New Jersey
Adam Kowalski is a high school senior. 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. Mr. Kowalski is active in track and field sports, and enjoys skiing. He once worked on a pearl farm, cleaning oyster shells.
	Damon Lasiter Las Vegas, Nevada
Damon Lasiter comes to the program as a graduate student in linguistic anthropology from UNLV. Acting as unofficial social director, he plans games for his teammates, as well as dance lessons, and although in possession of no superhuman powers his strengths include excellent dexterity, agility, and logic, his weaknesses being cold temperatures. These attributes make the Florida Keys a most excellent location for his introduction into underwater archaeology.
	Tessa Riess Public Relations Specialist
Tessa Riess has a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She has experience working for public relations firms and marketing for individual companies. She currently lives in San Francisco and is involved with the non-profit group "Books for South Africa."
	Carrianne Rupp Erie, Pennsylvania
Carrianne Rupp is a junior at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, where she is head of the Anthropology Club and a member of the Phi Sigma Pi National Honors Fraternity. She is currently majoring in anthropology and history, with a minor in archaeology. Her previous field experience includes the Battles Homestead in Girard, Pennsylvania. She enjoys music, culture, traveling and anything adventurous and new, especially white water rafting. She currently works at a boating livery on Presque Isle State Park in Pennsylvania. She plans to further her career by majoring in maritime archaeology somewhere in the British Isles.
	Lisa Tennison Project Cook, Savannah, Georgia
Ms. Lisa is the project cook extraordinaire.  She brilliantly oversees the day to day nutritional needs of the crew and their visitors.  In her copious free time between meals she diligently oversees the creative process of Sir Jack.  Whether it be new wall murals for the Quiescence dorm or Olympic swim training in the dive gear rinse tanks, Ms. Lisa handles it all.  We are grateful for the divine cuisine and even more so for the rare sense of humor.
	Christine Yugay Tajikistan
Christine Yugay is currently attending Portland State University, studying anthropology. She holds a BA in history from Yaroslavl State University in Yaroslavl, Russia. Ms. Yugay is a veteran of archaeological field expeditions at Sarazem and Penjikent in Tajikistan.