Meet the NAS Tutor Team
The NAS Tutor Team is made up of individuals around the world who are teaching the NAS Training Programme. Some are also working as professional archaeologists whilst some have been carrying out archaeological projects and teaching NAS Courses alongside other careers. Find out more about some of our Tutors below...
Chris Underwood, NAS International Development Officer
Chris has been associated with the Society’s training programme since 1989, during which he has delivered over 200 NAS Introduction - NAS Part III level courses, as well as being involved in the development or organisation of numerous others. These courses have been for various groups including, recreational divers, professionals involved in archaeology and students. Chris has also delivered over 20 Tutor Development Courses and introduced the NAS Programme to many of NAS' current training partner organisations. Chris was also a trainer during the foundation courses that formed part of UNESCO's Safeguarding the Underwater Cultural Heritage of Asia and the Pacific, which included aspects of NAS’ training programme. His international experience spans, Austria, Argentina, Bermuda, Canada, Colombia, Chile, Germany, Gibraltar, Mexico, Netherlands, Israel, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Tobago, Turkey, Uruguay and the USA.
Dr Bill Jeffery, NAS Senior Tutor, Centre for International Heritage Activities
Bill Jeffery, is contracted with the Centre for International Heritage Activities (CIE) as its Program Coordinator, Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage (MUCH) and has been involved in CIE capacity building programs from 2003. He recently completed work as a contract maritime archaeologist with the Federated States of Micronesia Historic Preservation Office (from 2001-2010) where he initiated projects in Chuuk, Yap and Pohnpei, including an Earthwatch project on Chuuk Lagoon’s World War II shipwrecks from 2006-2008.
From 1981 to 2001, Bill worked as the Principal Maritime Officer with Heritage South Australia, Department of Environment and Heritage where he implemented a State government Maritime Heritage Program.
Bill’s work in maritime archaeology has included sites in a number of countries and Hong Kong. The latter locality is as a consultant implementing Marine Archaeology Investigations (MAI) which are required by Hong Kong law. After teaching a number of local divers and the formation of the Hong Kong Underwater Heritage Group, the group acquired funding from the Hong Kong government to implement a MUCH program in Hong Kong in 2010-2011.
Bill has written over 70 articles and a number of reports on maritime archaeology, sites and issues. In March 2008, he successfully completed his PhD thesis on the Chuuk Lagoon submerged WWII sites from James Cook University (JCU) in Queensland, Australia.
Bill has taught part time at JCU and has conducted maritime archaeology field schools with JCU, the University of Guam and Guam Preservation Trust from 2004 to 2010. In 2006, Bill collaborated with the Sri Lankan government and UNESCO to lead the ‘Train the trainers’ field school in Galle in Sri Lanka after three years as maritime archaeologist on the Avondster shipwreck project in Galle Harbor. He has taught in many Nautical Archaeology Society Training Programs in Australia, sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Micronesia and is the Senior NAS Tutor for the CIE which is licensed to implement courses within some countries in these regions as part of their aim in developing local capacity in implementing MUCH programs and in leading future NAS courses.
Jacques Marc, Senior Tutor, UASBC, Canada
Jacques Marc is the Explorations Director for the Underwater Archaeological Society of British Columbia. He is an avocational U/W archaeologist who has spent 28 years diving on and documenting historic shipwrecks around the province of British Columbia. In his capacity as Explorations Director he co-ordinates many of the society's expeditions to search for and record submerged cultural sites in the province. He is also responsible for ensuring that provincial documenting shipwreck forms are completed and submitted to the provincial Archaeology Branch. Jacques has participated on expeditions to the Arctic to survey Roald Amundsen's exploration vessel Maude and to the Columbia River to survey the HBC Isabella lost in 1830.
Jacques has written and presented papers at the Society for Historical Archaeology Conferences and is responsible for six UASBC publications the most recent being "Historic Shipwrecks of the Central Coast of BC". Recently he authored a hard cover book entitled "Pacific Coast Ship China" which was published by the Royal BC Museum. In addition to his explorations role Jacques served as the UASBC president from 2002-2008. Presently, the UASBC offers NAS Introduction to NAS 2. Jacques is our most senior tutor and is responsible for having provided course continuity throughout the years that the society has been offering this education. He has worked tirelessly to arrange offerings on both Vancouver Island and on the mainland in Vancouver. He has also developed teaching sites in both regions.
Dr Emad Khalil, Senior Tutor, Alexandria University, Egypt
Emad Khalil is an Associate Professor in Maritime Archaeology and the Director of the Centre for Maritime Archaeology and Underwater Cultural Heritage at the Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, Egypt. He has been involved in maritime and underwater archaeology since the early nineties.
In 1998 he obtained a BA in Greco-Roman Archaeology from the Alexandria University, Egypt then he obtained MA and PhD degrees in Maritime Archaeology from the University of Southampton in 2002 and 2005 respectively. He has contributed to a number of archaeological projects in Egypt such as the Sadana Island Shipwreck Excavation, the Pharos Project, the Northwest Coast Shipwreck Survey and the Lake Mareotis Research Project. He is also Egypt's national representatives in the International Committee on Underwater Cultural Heritage (ICUCH). Dr Khalil has been a member of the NAS since 2001, then a tutor in 2003 and currently he is the NAS representative in Egypt.
Francesco Tiboni, TESI Archeologia, Italy
Graduated at University of Milan with an MA degree in Prehistory, discussing a thesis in Naval Archaeology, Francesco Tiboni started working in underwater archaeology in Italy in 2000. During the last 8 years he has directed more than 50 maritime archaeology researches and projects, most of which held by the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage or by the Local Superintendences of the Italian Regions.
Now based in Genova, in northern Italy, he has worked on national and international research projects, the most significant being the Archeomar Project 1 and 2 and the Pile Dwelling Sites List of the Alpine Region for UNESCO Project, and has directed important researches and excavations as those of the Cavanella Sewn Plank boat (2nd century BC), the Saint Peter’s Rudder (18th century AD) in Venice or the Portovenere channel (roman).
Francesco is now a director of TESI Archeologia srl, a maritime archaeology company involved in many underwater and inland researches, excavations as well as in submerged heritage promotion around Italian coasts.
Chairman of the AIASub, the Italian Association of Professional Underwater Archaeologists, author of papers on naval archaeology and prehistory of navigation, he has conducted seminaries in some Italian Universities concerning underwater archaeology techniques and practices and is now undertaking a complex research about Prehistory of Navigation in the Western Mediterranean Basin.
Francesco joined his first NAS course in 2003 in Portsmouth and in 2009 decided, in cooperation with his company mate and wife Laura Sanna, who joined her first NAS course in 2003 too, to introduce NAS training program in Italy with TESI Archeologia. Thanks to TESI Archeologia NAS is now developing a training program in Italy, in accordance with local authorities, and in 2010 has become part of the training program of Hydrolab-Hydrocat commercial diving school of Spezia.
Mark Beattie-Edwards, NAS Programme Director, NAS Office, UK
Mark started working for the NAS in 2001 as a Training and Administration Officer and has subsequently moved from Training Officer to Project Officer, Project Manager and since April 2009 has been the NAS Programme Director. Mark is responsible for the day to day operation of the NAS office in Portsmouth including overall supervision of all training and project opportunities.
Mark studied Archaeology at Southampton University between 1993-1996 and returned to Southampton in 1999-2000 to undertake the MA in Maritime Archaeology. He has worked in the Guernsey, Sweden, the Caribbean and throughout the UK. Although already a BSAC Advanced Diver and Instructor, Mark undertook his commercial scuba and surface supplied diver training at Fort Bovisand, Plymouth in 1999. Current projects include working on two of the UK’s designated wreck sites - the Holland 5 submarine, the Norman’s Bay Wreck. Mark has also project managed a 5 year study of the collection of vessels in Forton Lake, Gosport, UK which in 2011 was published as an NAS Monograph.
Dr Mark Holley, Senior Tutor, Northwestern Michigan College, USA
Mark received a B.A. degree in Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1991 and a Ph.D. in Underwater Archaeology from the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) in 1998. His Ph.D. thesis involved the high resolution field survey of prehistoric underwater artificial islet sites located on remote islands off the west coast of Scotland. Mark has twenty years of field experience in the survey of underwater prehistoric sites, and has been principal investigator for several surveys of underwater sites in Scotland. He has worked on field projects for: Leister, Leeds, Cornell, Michigan State, Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities.
Mark has participated in underwater archaeology and cultural resource management projects in Michigan since 1995. These projects have included prediction of prehistoric sites in Saginaw Bay, the archaeological survey of Fayette Harbor, the archaeological survey of the historic shipwreck “New Orleans” and development of an archaeological survey plan for historic shipwrecks of both Thunder Bay and Grand Traverse Bay (in northern Michigan).
Mark is trained as an operational/scientific diver, is a member of the Council for British Archaeology, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Fellow of the Royal Archaeological Institute and Member of the Archaeology Institute. In 2000 Dr. Holley was awarded a medal of scientific merit for the archaeological survey of Loch Awe (Scotland) by HRH Duke of Edinburgh. Mark teaches cultural anthropology and underwater archaeology at Northwestern Michigan College and is the chief archaeologist of the newly formed Grand Traverse Bay Underwater Preserve. His specialty is the survey of submerged archaeological sites and he currently leading field projects in Lake Michigan, Scotland, Ireland, Greece and Estonia.
Ian Cundy, Senior Tutor, UK
Mary Harvey, NAS Training Manager, NAS Office, UK
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 and subsequently focused on training, becoming Training Manager in 2010. Mary now oversees training in the UK and is working to create e-learning options for the NAS Introduction and Part I Courses.
Mary achieved a BA in Archaeology from Bristol University in 2005 and went on to complete a MA in Maritime Archaeology and History also at Bristol. Mary has worked on projects both in the UK and overseas including Isreal, the Isles of Scilly and Scotland. She managed the Sound of Mull Archaeology Fieldschool on the site of the John Preston between 2009 and 2011 undertaking survey and excavation work. In 2011 she also ran a fieldschool associated with the IKUWA 4 Conference in Croatia.
Rachel Quick, NAS Training Officer, NAS Office, UK
One of the newest recruits, Rachel is stepping into Mary Harvey's shoes as the NAS Training officer, taking over some of Mary's tasks in administration and development of the training programme. A graduate in Archaeology and Anthropology from Bristol University, Rachel also has a Masters degree in Maritime Archaeology from the University of Southampton, with seven years of archaeological experience under her belt already working both terrestrially and in the marine environment she has a passion for anything does and did float. A keen PADI Divemaster and also a CBA Young Archaeologist Club Assistant Leader, Rachel hopes to open the training program to younger participants and broaden the ages of those involve. |
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