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Crew Bios
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 Russ Green is an underwater
archaeologist for the Wisconsin Historical
Society. Originally from Massachusetts, Russ
obtained his undergraduate degree from the
University of Rhode Island, and is
completing graduate work in history and
underwater archaeology at Trinity College in
Hartford, CT, and the Program in Maritime
Studies at East Carolina University. His
thesis research focuses on privateering
during the American Revolution and an
eighteenth-century shipwreck in Maine's
Penobscot River. |
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 Cathy Green is an underwater
archaeologist for the Wisconsin Historical
Society. Originally from New Albany,
Indiana, she holds a history degree from
Indiana University, and has done graduate
work education at the University of
Louisville, as well as pursuing maritime
history and underwater archaeology at East
Carolina University, where her research
centered on ships' figureheads. In addition
to her duties in Wisconsin, Cathy also
teaches humanities courses for Long Island
University's SEAmester program aboard sail
training schooners on the East and West
Coasts. |
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 Dr.
Bradley Rodgers received his Ph.D. from
Union Institute and is an associate professor
at East Carolina University. Rodgers
specializes in nautical archaeology and
conservation sciences. He has won several
conservation contracts to preserve artifacts
including American Revolutionary War material
from the British vessel Betsy for the Yorktown
Shipwreck Archaeological Project, complex
metal alloy artifacts from the U.S. Navy
dirigible airship Macon for the US
Navy, gunports from a French and Indian War
vessel lost in Lake George, N.Y. for Batteaux
Below, and numerous complex organic artifacts
from the Maple Leaf for the State of
Florida. He has directed numerous field school
projects for East Carolina University. In
1994, he received the Exemplary Program Award
for Credit Programs given by the Western
Association of Summer Session Administrators
for a field school held in conjunction with
the University of Hawaii that documented a PBY
aircraft lost during the attack on Pearl
Harbor. His publications include Guardian
of the Great Lakes: The US Paddle Frigate
Michigan (1996) and articles on
conservation and archaeology in International
Journal of Nautical Archaeology, Historical
Archaeology, Michigan History, and
The American Neptune. Rodgers teaches
conservation, maritime history, and field
schools. |
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 Dr.
Annalies Corbin, Assistant Professor at East
Carolina University, specializes in nautical
archaeology, material culture, and is a
specialist in inland river transportation and
immigration. She has directed numerous field
schools across the U.S. Most recent field
schools were conducted in Yellowstone National
Park, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin. 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. She is a board member of the Journal of
Northwest Anthropology (JONA), the Advisory
Council of Underwater Archaeology (ACUA), is
book review editor for Historical Archaeology,
and is Executive Director of the P.A.S.T.
Foundation. Dr. Corbin teaches classes in
research/field methods of nautical archaeology,
material cultural resources, material culture,
conservation and field schools. Email:
corbina@mail.ecu.edu |
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 Sam
Blake is in his second year of study at
E.C.U. His research interests include
submarines and submersibles, as well as
Native American watercraft. Sam received his
B.A. in anthropology from Beloit College, in
2001. He has a strong dislike of Zebra
mussels.
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 Brian S. Jaeschke is
from Wyoming, Michigan. He received his
undergraduate degree in sociology from Lake
Superior State University in 1997. He
participated in an archaeological field school
searching for the officer's quarters at Fort
Brady, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Brian spent
5 seasons sailing Great Lakes freighters as a
deckhand and watchman. His interests include
Great Lakes maritime history, naval history,
and museology. This is his second year at East
Carolina University. |
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 James Moore is in his
second year at East Carolina University's
Program in Maritime Studies. James is
originally from Abingdon, VA. He received an
undergraduate degree in marine biology at
Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL. After
graduating from Eckerd College, James worked
for a year at Janus Research, an
archaeological firm based in St. Petersburg.
James's current interests include artifact
recovery and conservation as well as deep
water archaeology. His thesis will deal with
the stone quarry industry of Sturgeon Bay,
Wisconsin, and the vessels used in that trade. |
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 Andrew Pietruszka is a
second year graduate student in East Carolina
University's Maritime Studies Program. He
received his undergraduate degree in biology
from the University of Central Florida. At
Central Florida Andrew conducted research with
Dr. Jack Stout on Florida mice population on
campus. Andrew has worked on several
underwater archaeological sites including the Santa
Monica in the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Charm
outside of Jackson, Mississippi. He is
currently head of the Bath Creek Submerged
Cultural Resource Survey in Bath, North
Carolina. The goal of that project is to
document any shipwrecks or cultural remains in
Bath, the oldest town in North Carolina. |
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 Chris Valvano is a
second year graduate student at East Carolina
University's Maritime Studies Program. In
1998, he obtained an undergraduate liberal
studies degree from Keystone College in La
Plume, Pennsylvania. In 2001, he graduated
with a Bachelor of Science,
Anthropology/Archaeology degree from
Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Chris is primarily interested in the early
development of steam powered vessels, and the
nineteenth-century steamboat industry of the
Mississippi and Missouri River. His graduate
thesis will be based on a wrecked steamboat
near St. Louis. |
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 Jackie Piero is a second
year graduate student in the East Carolina
University Maritime Studies Program. She
graduated from Miami University of Ohio in
2000 with a bachelor's degree in anthropology.
Her interests include mapping of underwater
sites and corrosion of metals in various
underwater environments. Her graduate thesis
will examine site formation processes
affecting the ferry Ellis Island, which
sunk at its slip on Ellis Island, New York in
1968. |
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