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NOAA's Research 2015 RAMP Expedition, Hawaii...Story On JANUARY tem to tern 2016 A Newsletter for our Maritime Studies Alumni and Friends v o l u m e 32 pS r o g r a m i n m a r i t i m e s t u d i e s S e a s t c a r o l i n a u n i v e r s i t y g r e e n v i l l e n c NOAA’s Research 2015 RAMP Expedition, Hawaii. story on page 6 From the Editorial Staff / Director 3 Maritimers on the Road: 2015 Conference 4 Maritime Studies Association 5 NOAA’s Research 2015 RAMP Expedition, Hawaii 6 Remote Sensing off Rodanthe 7 Summer Field School in Costa Rica 9 South Africa 10 St. Augustine’s Storm Wreck 11 Livorno, Italy 12 RPM Nautical Foundation, Sicily and Montenegro 13 Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary 14 Fall Field School in Pamlico, NC 15 Fall Field School in Garrett Bay, Wisconsin 16 North Carolina Maritime Museum 17 Ahoy Mates! Welcome to ECU 20 Where are our Maritimers now? 23 Thank you for your support! The Program in Maritime Studies is extremely thankful for contributions made tem to tern by our readers and friends. This year, we saw an increase in donations made to the S. a newsletter of East CarolinaS University’s program via Stem to Stern. These contributions fund a scholarship that helps to Program in Maritime Studies alleviate the cost of education and research for students in the program. Program graduates who donate $50 and outside contributors who donate $100 will receive Core Faculty: the medallion pictured below in the mail. We thank you for supporting the Bradley A. Rodgers, PhD, Director Program in Maritime Studies! Lynn B. Harris, PhD – Katherine Clevenger Jennifer McKinnon, PhD Nathan Richards, PhD David J. Stewart, PhD Contributing Faculty: Wade Dudley, PhD Michael A. Palmer, PhD Staff Archaeologist: Jason Raupp, PhD Outside Contributor: PHOTO TO SCALE Jeffrey Royal, PhD Office Manager: Dr. James M. Allan Mr. John B. Parks Karen Underwood Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Babits Mr. and Mrs. Phillip F. Reid Editor: Mr. Matthew Brenckle Dr. Bradley A. Rodgers Katherine Clevenger Mr. Peter Campbell Dr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Runyan Mr. and Mrs. James Cheatham Mr. and Mrs. John N. Smith III Assistant Editor: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Holcombe, Jr. Mr. Edward Urban Martha Mihich Mr. and Mrs. John Hoyt Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Urban Mr. Joshua Marano Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Workman Published annually by the Program in Maritime Studies, East Carolina University. Mr. Sam Newell Mr. Joseph W. Zarzynski Readers are encouraged to submit informa- tion and news to the editor. Any suggestions or comments should be directed to the editor. We look forward to hearing from you. If you would like to receive a free sub- scription to Stem to Stern, please telephone 252-328-6097, fax 252-328-6754, or write: If you would like to continue receiving Stem to Stern, please send in the enclosed Stem to Stern pre-addressed, pre-paid envelope and let us know. All you have to do is insert a Program in Maritime Studies card with your name, address, and current professional position. If you want to Admiral Ernest M. Eller House send a donation to support the program, a specific project, or Stem to Stern, East Carolina University please feel free to do so. -Thank you Greenville, NC 27858-4353 Please visit the ECU Maritime Studies website at www.ecu.edu/maritime for Front COVER: Anchor from schooner Churchill at French Frigate Shoals. (Photo: Andy Collins/ additional news and information about the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument) program. A digital copy of this newsletter BACK COVER: Divers explore shipwreck of the tanker Mission San Miguel at Maro Reef. (Photo: Tate Wester/ University of Hawai i at Mānoa) can be viewed online at http://www.ecu.edu/ ʻ maritime/publications. 1,500 copies of this public document were printed at a cost of $3,138.15 or $2.09 per copy. ASC-000924 (11/15) 2015 – 2016 e a s t c a r o l i n a u n i v e r s i t y 2 Stem to Stern • From the Editorial Staff: From the Editorial Staff: It has been another exciting year for the Program in Maritime Studies! This year’s newsletter highlights the many achievements of current and past students. Several recent graduates acquired exciting jobs, and some not so recent graduates have been presented with awards. This past summer, students interned in the Mediterranean, Sweden, Florida, and North Carolina. Returning students and faculty welcomed thirteen first-years into the maritime family at the Welcome Aboard party. We said a fond farewell to Dr. Carl Swanson at the end of the Spring 2015 semester and welcomed the new staff archaeologist, Dr. Jason Raupp, to the program. Please read on to explore the program’s accomplishments from this past year! – Katherine Clevenger I first read Stem to Stern when I was researching East Carolina University, and I instantly knew that this was the place for me. Getting to read about all of the projects that Maritime students have participated in was exciting. Being the assistant editor has been challenging, but fun, and I have definitely learned a lot. Continue reading to find out more about what the ECU Maritime students have been up to. – Martha Mihich From From the the Quarterdeck: Quarterdeck: As I contemplate the past year from Marine Preserves and Sea Grant, and the funding, and many a young bronco graduate the Fleetwing Project here in Wisconsin, it Navy, as well as at the state level with CSI, student has endured getting their burrs occurs to me that my career has come nearly the WSHS, the NC Division of Archive clipped! But humility opens doors. full circle, paralleling the maturing of the Submerged Cultural Resource Unit, and In other news, we said goodbye to Dr. Program in Maritime Studies. Nearly thirty state agencies in Maryland, Virginia, Florida, Calvin Mires, our Staff Archaeologist and years ago, three young men - two budding and South Carolina. We have also teamed longtime friend. He will be missed but not archaeologists and an electrical engineer - with academic units, such as MOP at the forgotten, and, with his new duties with the fought off black flies, equipment breakdown University of Hawaii, and museums, such as PAST Foundation, we will likely be working (all of our equipment was begged, borrowed, the Bermuda Maritime Museum, the Two with him again. Replacing him will be Dr. Jen or stolen, including an old beat up van that Rivers Maritime Museum, Mackinaw State McKinnon’s other half, Dr. Jason Raupp, who got us here), uncertain methodology, and a Park, and the Wisconsin Maritime Museum. comes to us from the University of Flinders lack of experience in recognizing just what it Now we have gone full circle revisiting and, until recently, has been the motor was we were looking at, to document for the friends (that we have often trained) in not- attached to Abe’s baby stroller. Something first time archaeologically a wrecked 19th for-profit enterprises such as PAST, RPM tells me Abe will not need anybody else century schooner in Lake Michigan, or more Nautical Foundation, and the Inland Seas pushing him around in a very short time. technically Green Bay. We revisited the site Institute, our field school’s current sponsor. And in a year of goodbyes, I also say a this year to study just what three decades In this light, it cannot be emphasized heartfelt goodbye to my friend and colleague, of Cultural Resource Management and site enough how these partnerships not only Dr. Carl Swanson. I could always count on formation processes have wrought on the influence our program logistically, but also Carl to cross our every “T” (maritime pun Fleetwing. philosophically. We enjoy our partnerships; intended) and dot our every “i.” His research The early Fleetwing project was these people and institutions are our in privateering was ground breaking, and instrumental in more than just planting our friends, allies, and have become places of his classes were always filled with eager flag in the Great Lakes region, an area of employment! This arrangement is very archaeologists, who soon learned the value of research that has produced some two dozen unusual in an academic setting and, along historical research in their repertoire of other master’s theses to date for our program. It with our 220 alums, has become the very skills. Carl and I’s battles in racquetball were opened a thirty year partnership with the basis of our network. Our students are legendary (at least in our own minds!). You Wisconsin State Historical Society that goes not only trained to work in teams but to will also be missed my friend. on successfully to this day. More than that, it recognize the possibilities that other people Let me conclude this by stating again continued our commitment to partnerships and institutions bring to the research table. that the other secret to our successful around the world. These partnerships allow Our original philosophy of NEED and production of more Register of Professional us to fund and sponsor our fieldwork; NECESSITY for an underfunded program Archaeologists (RPA) members than any boats, dive equipment, underwater has turned out to be our GREATEST GIFT! other archaeological program in the world is instrumentation, and the training to operate We work well with others, from an individual the fact that nobody is exempt from working them. These resources are not cheap and level to an organizational level.
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