Shipwreck Weekend 2007
The Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) and the Nautical Archaeology Program’s (NAP) annual Shipwreck Weekend is taking place on Saturday, April 14th. The day will start at 9am in EDMS Room 410 in the library annex with presentations by INA and NAP scholars on the various stages of nautical archaeology - from starting a project, the initial surveying of a wreck, the excavation of shipwrecks, and the conservation of artefacts - followed by a tour of the department.
Shipwreck Weekend Schedule
9:00- 9:20 - Mark Polzer: The Anatomy of a Shipwreck Excavation: Bajo de la Campana Project, Spain.
9:20-9:40 - Andrew Roberts: Great Republic: a Pacific Mail Steamship
9:40-10:00 - Dr. Deborah Carlson: A Monumental Cargo: The Roman Column Wreck at Kizilburun, Turkey
10:00-10:20 - Katie Custer: End of the Line: The Final Season of the Red River Project
10:20-10:40 Break
10:40-11:00 - Dr. Filipe Vieira de Castro: Sailing the Pepper Wreck
11-11:20 - Dr. Helen Dewolf: Conserving Artefacts from the Red River Excavation
11:20-11:40 - Dr. Wayne Smith: New Technologies in Artefact Conservation
1:00 – 3:00pm Open Tour of the Nautical Archaeology Program Laboratories:
Conservation Labs
Old World and New World Labs
Ship Reconstruction Lab
Ship Modeling Lab