Who Are We?
NAS Staff
Mark Beattie Edwards - Programme Director
Mark joined the Nautical Archaeology Society in 2001 as a Training Officer teaching the NAS parts I, II and III certifications to hundreds of keen students. Mark has been involved in underwater archaeological projects in the Channel Islands, the Baltic, Caribbean and throughout the UK. He is now the NAS Programme Director responsible for the day to day operation of NAS including overall supervision of training and project opportunities.
Mark is currently the licencee of the Holland 5 protected wreck site and nominated archaeologist for the Norman’s Bay protected wreck and has appeared on Radio4 and the 2009 series Coast on the BBC.
Mary Harvey - Training and Publications Officer
Mary joined the NAS in 2007 as an Assistant Training and Publications Officer, through the IFA Workplace Learning Bursary Scheme, working on delivering NAS training courses and updating the NAS training materials to co-incide with the release of the NAS Handbook. Mary became a full time member of the NAS Staff in September 2008 as Training and Publications Officer.
Michelle Thurgood – Office Administrator
Michelle joined the NAS Office as a part time administrator in January 2010
Paula Martin - IJNA Editor
Paula read Latin with Greek at Bristol, but got sidetracked into archaeology. She started as a
research assistant to Colin Martin, and joined him and Keith Muckelroy
for summer seasons on HMS Dartmouth in the Sound of Mull, La Trinidad
Valencera in Donegal, and El Gran Grifon on Fair Isle. Colin and Paula were married in 1976.
Paula took up local history, ending up with a PhD from the University of
Dundee in 2000 and continued to help Colin with fieldwork, being Finds Manager and Deputy
Director of the Duart Point Shipwreck Project for several years.
Paula now works for the NAS as the Editor of the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (IJNA) as well as teaching with the Open University and undertaking freelance research.
For more information on the Journal and submitting an article please visit the IJNA pages of the website. She can be contacted on paula@arnydie.demon.co.uk
Angela Croome - IJNA Book Reviews Editor
Angela is the Book Reviews Editor and the Deputy Editor of the IJNA. Angela works from home and does not use email. If you wish to get in touch with Angela please email Paula Martin, who will ensure that emails reach Angela.
Chris Underwood - International Development officer
Chris has been associated with the Society’s training programme since 1986, and is currently expanding it through developing international partnerships. He has a Masters degree in Maritime Archaeology, as well as professional diving qualifications. He first became involved in maritime archaeology in 1978 as a volunteer with the Mary Rose diving team, subsequently becoming the project’s Diving Officer and one of the Superintendents of the Trust’s ship’s recovery diving team in 1982. After the Mary Rose he combined professional diving in the oil and civil engineering industries with accumulating a broad range of archaeological experience on sites around the UK, Baltic, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and Caribbean, After more than a decade as NAS Training Officer and then Project Director, in 2005 he became a member of Argentina’s National Institute of Anthropology’s underwater research programme working on projects in the South Atlantic, including the excavation and research of HMS Swift, 1770. He continues to run NAS courses in Latin America and academic courses for students at the University of Buenos Aires. His particular archaeological interests are focused on developing archaeological training and historical archaeology.
Gerald Grainge - NAS Monograph Series Editor
Gerald graduated from Cambridge with a degree in Modern Languages and served in the RAF in the 1950s. After service as a teacher, he worked local government, retiring in 1992. He completed a research degree in Maritime Archaeology at Southampton in 2001. His thesis on the Roman invasion of Britain of AD 43 was published in 2002 and a further book on all the Roman invasions of Britain followed in 2005. Gerald became the editor of the NAS Monograph series some five years ago.
NAS Executive Committee
George Lambrick - Chair
George Lambrick is a freelance archaeology and heritage consultant with wide ranging interests in history and heritage. Having read history at Lincoln College Oxford where he was President of the University Archaeological Society, he spent 25 years at Oxford Archaeology excavating sites in the Thames valley and developing the Unit’s consultancy practice. Always interested in policy issues and the wider environmental, social and educational value of heritage, he was Director of the Council for British Archaeology from 1999–2004 where he took a keen interest in the work of the Joint Nautical Archaeology Policy Committee. He spoke out against the UK Government’s profit sharing contract to sell off bullion from HMS Sussex and supported local campaigners to save the Newport Ship. He became Chair of the NAS in 2005 to help provide some non–nautical perspective and experience and help promote the work of the NAS to a wider audience. One of his current interests is the special opportunities that nautical archaeology offers to link people’s interest in family history to the archaeology of places and objects.
Jessica Berry
Jessica Berry has been a print journalist most of her life and recently undertook as masters degree in maritime archaeology at Flinders University in South Australia. She is currently the NAS Newsletter editor, a freelance journalist and freelance maritime archaeologist, thereby trying to have a foot in both camps.
Lucy Blue
Dr Lucy Blue is a specialist in maritime archaeology in the Centre for Maritime Archaeology. She currently co-directs the Lake Mareotis Survey Project, Alexandria, Egypt. Lucy has excavated widely in the Mediterranean, Red Sea and Indian Ocean and co–directed the investigations of the Roman harbours sites of Adulis and Quseir al–Qadim in the Red Sea. She specialises in harbours, landscape studies and maritime ethnography and has just completed a survey of traditional boats in India. She has been a long standing member of the Nautical Archaeology Society, the Government Advisory Committee of Historic Wreck Sites and is currently the director of the Centre for Maritime Archaeology, University of Southampton. She is also the grant holder of a European Union Tempus Award to set up a Centre of Underwater Cultural Heritage and Maritime Archaeology in the University of Alexandria, Egypt. Lucy is also a co-presenter on a new BBC 2 series called ‘Oceans’.
David Carter
A retired Engineer and BSAC Advanced Diver who started diving in 1970 and quickly developed an interest in maritime archaeology. A member of NAS since 1988 he was the surveyor and team member with Weymouth Underwater Archaeology Group/Chelmsford Underwater Archaeology Unit before co-founding Weymouth LUNAR (Land & Underwater Nautical Archaeological Research) Society. Under the ‘Adopt-A-Wreck’ Scheme they adopted the East Indiaman ‘Earl of Abergavenny’ which sank in 1805 and the Portland Stone Sailing Barge, circa 1740, as well as creating exhibitions and maritime galleries in Weymouth and Portland. As a member of the ‘Earl of Abergavenny’ team since 1979 he has helped them win the Duke of Edinburgh’s BSAC Gold Award in 1996 and the NAS ‘Adopt-A-Wreck’ Award in 2005.
Annalisa Christie
Annalisa Christie is an archaeology graduate from UCL specialising in African and maritime archaeology. She is currently in her final year as a PhD research student at University of York under Dr Paul Lane investigating the Maritime Cultural Landscapes in the Mafia Archipelago off the coast of Tanzania. She has been involved various research projects in Madagascar, South Africa and Peru, as well as several projects throughout East Africa. Annalisa is a keen scuba diver and a PADI IDC Staff Instructor. She joined NAS in 2004 and has undertaken several of the NAS training courses offered.
Simon Draper
Simon Draper is a Trustee Director of NAS and Chairman of the Funding Group. After a period as a university lecturer and research scientist he was responsible for marketing and business development at a privatised research institute. He then set up a small consultancy company which delivered business advice and undertook underwater photography for media publication. He became interested in nautical archaeology through diving on wrecks in the Philippines, the Red Sea, the Caribbean and Malta. This interest led to participation in NAS training and to setting up the Sheraton project in the inter-tidal zone at Hunstanton. Other interests include sailing in the UK and the Caribbean. His main ambition with NAS is to help achieve good financial support for the valuable work which the Society undertakes.
Viv Hamilton - Treasurer
Viv Hamilton, is the treasurer of the NAS and chairman of the management committee. She was elected onto the Executive Committee in 2005. As a recreational diver, whose interest and participation in maritime archaeology has been via NAS, she is totally enthused by what NAS can do for the ordinary member. Viv’s day job is as a company director and consultant on management and safety. The management committee is responsible for the day to day details of how the office and NAS operations are run so Viv works closely with the office staff.
JD Hill
JD Hill is Head of Research for the British Museum. A prehistoric archaeologist by training, he has a wide range of experience in different areas of Museums, Heritage, the Media and Higher Education. A diver since 1982, he usually dives to get away from archaeology, but his own research has increasingly focused on maritime archaeology and long term histories. He jointly organised work on the Pudding Pan Roman site off Herne Bay, Kent and regularly teaches on the University of Southampton's MA course in Maritime Archaeology.
David Johnston
Dave Johnston is a sports diver (PADI dive master, BSAC instructor) and avocational maritime archaeologist, who funds his passion for underwater archaeology with a day job running microscopes for the University of Southampton. He joined the NAS in the late 1990s, shortly after qualifying as a diver, in order to participate in WreckMap projects as a means to get more diving experience. Having worked his way through the NAS training syllabus to Part 3 level, he is now a NAS tutor, sits on the NAS Executive and Management Committees and chairs the Outreach sub committee. He also runs the ongoing Stourhead Gardens project for the Society. Outside of NAS he is a regular member of the license team for the Warship Hazardous Prize site and volunteers with the Hants and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology. His current Society aims are to increase the “value” of membership for members and to use outreach activities as a means to increase the size and diversity of the membership base, thereby building a stronger and more active society in which all members both feel that they have a stake and derive real benefit from belonging to.
Alison Kentuck
Courtney Nimura
Courtney Nimura is a PhD Candidate at the University of Reading studying prehistoric maritime rock art in Scandinavia. She previously worked at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (USA) in Conservation and Collections Management before returning to university in the UK. Courtney has a BA and MFA in photography / museum studies from the United States, and an MA in Maritime Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London. Alongside her work with NAS, she volunteers with the Thames Discovery Programme and studies Danish language in London.
Mike Williams - Secretary
Mike Williams is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Wolverhampton. He has published extensively on the law relating to the foreshore and seabed and underwater cultural heritage. He advises government departments and agencies both in the UK and abroad and is retained as an advisor to the Crown Estate on foreshore and seabed matters. Mike has commercial and recreational diving qualifications and dives with the South West Maritime Archaeological Group and the HMS Coronation team. He sits on the Joint Nautical Archaeological Policy Committee, is Honorary Secretary of the Nautical Archaeology Society and is a trustee of the Resurgam Trust.
NAS Sub Committees
John Cooper
John P. Cooper is chair of the NAS Publications Sub–committee, which oversees the Society’s paper and electronic publishing activities. Originally from Tyneside, John read Arabic at Durham after a gap year in Jordan introduced him to the wonders of the Arab world. Following a master’s degree in linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, he went into business journalism, first as a reporter and then an editor, writing about energy and the economies of the Middle East. His subsequent return to academia began with a master’s degree in Maritime Archaeology at Southampton, where he went on to complete a Ph.D. investigating navigation on the Egyptian Nile in the medieval period. He is currently a post–doctoral research fellow at the Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, where he is a member of the MARES Project, a three–year programme investigating the maritime traditions of the Red Sea using archaeological, ethnographic, linguistic and historical data.
NAS Vice Presidents
David Blackman
David Blackman was a founder member of the Committee for Nautical Archaeology, predecessor of the NAS, in 1964, and its Chairman in 1975⁄6. He was active in the campaign for wreck protection legislation in UK waters, and then for an international agreement covering the underwater cultural heritage beyond national territorial limits. He taught Classics and Archaeology at Bristol University, 1964–75, where he organized the first international conference in Britain on Marine Archaeology in 1971. He then spent 20 years at the European Parliament, before going to Athens to direct the British School of Archaeology. Now living in Oxford, he continues his lifetime interest in ancient harbours, in particular naval dockyards. As an NAS Vice–President he is particularly involved in international relations, public policy matters and publications.
Chris Dobbs
Christopher Dobbs has been heavily involved with the NAS ever since attending the first meeting of the NAS Steering Committee in 1980. He was an archaeological Supervisor on the Mary Rose during the excavations from 1979 to 1982, where he did a lot of training of divers to work archaeologically underwater. This inspired him and others to create NAS Training and Chris devised the 4–Part scheme that won a Duke of Edinburgh Prize. Chris has a degree in Archaeology (MA Cantab) as well as a PGCE and MBA. 22 of his 31 years of experience as a maritime archaeologist have been with the Mary Rose Trust where he has been involved with all the major phases of diving, excavating, raising, restoring timbers into the hull and running the museum. Chris lectures on Maritime archaeology and Museology at a number of universities in the UK as well as internationally. His main work at present is with the designs and interpretation for the new Mary Rose Museum due to open in 2012, but he still dives on the Mary Rose site – see photo (2005). A Former Chairman of NAS, he is currently a Vice-President and is the UK Representative on the ICOMOS International Committee for the Underwater Cultural Heritage.
Nic Flemming
Nic Flemming started surveying submerged classical Roman and Greek harbours and towns in the Mediterranean in 1958, and has been working on older and older submerged sites ever since. Bronze Age in the 1970s. Neolithic settlements in the 1980s. Palaeolithic in the 1990s. He is now co-ordinating multi-national projects to examine an approach to the prehistoric archaeology of the European continental shelf as a whole.
Colin Martin
Colin Martin ended his schooldays as an educational no-hoper, but thanks to an early interest in nautical archaeology he’s since obtained a PhD, become a full member of the IfA and Association of Archaeological Illustrators, and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and the Royal Historical Society. Brief and undistinguished careers as a flying instructor, soldier, and freelance photo-journalist led (by devious routes) to archaeological work on shipwrecks of the Spanish Armada and an academic career at St Andrews University, from which he retired in 2001. He’s worked on several other historic shipwrecks, most recently the Duart Point wreck off Mull, and is interested in the frontier areas of Roman Britain and landscape archaeology. With Paula he’s currently working on a maritime landscape project in the west of Scotland, bringing together work underwater, on the foreshore, along the coast, and from the air. He’s a member of the Advisory Committee on Historic Wreck Sites and a qualified NAS Tutor.
Bob Yorke
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