Member: Mitch Bowman
Seat: Heritage Tourism
Term: 2/08-2/10
Executive Director, Virginia Civil War Trails
Richmond, VA

Mitch Bowman was raised amid the James River Plantations in Charles City Co., Virginia, and is a graduate of the University of Virginia. Throughout the 1980’s, he was an officer in the United States Air Force and flew F-111 aircraft in Europe and the Middle East. In 1990, he founded Historic Air Tours, an AAA approved, aerial-tour company based in Williamsburg, Virginia. Before selling his company in 1996, he spent nearly seven years interpreting aspects of Virginia’s historic sites that are best seen from the aerial view.

In 1996, he was appointed the executive director of Virginia Civil War Trails, a non-profit organization which has interpreted more than seven hundred Civil War sites throughout Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina, using directional and interpretive signage to link the sites and create a uniform, “user friendly” experience. In 2001, the National Trust for Historic Preservation listed Virginia Civil War Trails first among the most successful and sustainable heritage tourism programs in the nation.

Mitch Bowman is author of WHERE BANNERS FLEW: An Aerial View of Virginia’s History, published in 1997.

He is the immediate past-chairman of the Southeast Tourism Society, an eleven-state, 600-member organization which promotes travel to the southeastern United States, and currently serves on NOAA’s Monitor National Sanctuary Advisory Council and the VA State Parks Advisory Committee.

Member: Scott C. Boyd
Seat: Citizen-at-Large
Term: 5/08-5/10
Freelance Writer
Fredericksburg, VA

Scott C. Boyd came to Fredericksburg, Virginia with his family in 1971, where he received a computer science degree from Mary Washington College, currently known as the University of Mary Washington. Retired as a Navy civilian computer scientist, he is a freelance writer specializing in topics related to the naval history of the Civil War. Many of Mr. Boyd's numerous articles and book reviews about the Civil War have been published by the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg. In 2004, he even scooped the Washington Post by reporting that one of the men in the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley's final crew was from Fredericksburg.

Mr. Boyd has given presentations at the Fredericksburg Civil War Round Table and at nearby Germanna Community College. In 2006 he joined the staff of The Civil War News, a monthly publication about Civil War-related news, events and books, where his focus is the Blue and Gray navies. He has written extensively on the new USS Monitor Center at the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, Georgia, and the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center in Charleston, South Carolina.

Member: Jim Bunch
Seat: Recreational Diving
Term: 5/08-5/10
Writer
Kill Devil Hills, NC

Jim Bunch, an accomplished teacher, speaker, writer and underwater photographer, started diving the shipwrecks of North Carolina's Outer Banks in the mid 1950's. During the mid-1970's he became interested in the U-85 saga and has since made more than 1000 dives to the site photographing and exploring the submarine, which was the first German U-boat sunk by a United States warship after America's entry into WWII. His two books, Diving the U-85 and U-85 A Shadow in the Sea, a Diver's Reflections have enticed and encouraged many divers to visit this famous shipwreck.

Specializing in oceanography, Jim earned degrees in Marine Biology (B.S.) and Oceanography (M. S.) and worked as an Oceanographer for the Federal Government for many years while still pursuing his diving interests. As a former dive business owner and an active NAUI scuba instructor for 18 years, he equipped and certified hundreds of divers interested in visiting North Carolina's beautiful shipwrecks. In 1994 he received the Scuba Schools International Pro5000 award for making 5000 or more logged dives. His photographs of North Carolina shipwrecks and marine life surround the fish tanks of the North Carolina Aquarium in Manteo, North Carolina. He currently is a speaker for the North Carolina Humanities Council and still dives the U-85 as often as possible.

Member: David Conlin
Seat: The National Park Service-Alternate
Term: 3/08-3/10
Archeologist, NPS Submerged Resources Center
Santa Fe, NM

After undergraduate work at Reed College, Dave received a master’s degree from Oxford University in Aegean and underwater archeology and then followed this with a Ph.D. in anthropology and archeology from Brown University.  Following years of diving and research on the shipwrecks of the Aegean, Dave took a job as an underwater archeologist for the United States Navy.  While with the Navy he helped plan and execute the recovery of the world’s first successful combat submarine, the Confederate submersible H.L. Hunley-lost off Charleston South Carolina in 1864.  Following the Hunley project, Dave moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico to join the National Park Service’s Submerged Resources Center and to continue diving shipwrecks around the country and around the world.  Recent projects include the search for John Paul Jones’ ship Bon Homme Richard, diving on the wreck of a B-29 Superfortress that crashed into Lake Mead while doing top-secret high altitude research for the U.S. Air Force, diving on the wreck of USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, working with Ellis Island to document and preserve portions of the historic ferry Ellis Island, and assisting the government of Mozambique in the creation of national parks to preserve historic shipwrecks and sensitive ecological areas off the African coast.

Member: Anna Holloway
Seat: The Mariners’ Museum
Term: 2/08-2/10
Curator, The Mariners’ Museum
Newport News, VA

Anna Gibson Holloway is the Chief Curator at The Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, VA where she just recently completed the USS Monitor Center exhibition.  Before the cheesebox on a raft entered her life, she was the Director of Education and Interpretation, and Resident Pirate at The Mariners’ Museum.  In the waning years of the 20^th century, she was Manager of School Tour Programs for the Chrysler Museum of Art and Historic Houses in Norfolk, VA and has also worked for Jamestown Settlement as part of the crew of the Susan Constant, and for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation where she was a puppeteer and understudy fire eater.  She is slowly completing work on her dissertation for the Department of History at the College of William and Mary.  This Winston-Salem native graduated from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro with baccalaureate degrees in English Literature and Medieval Civilization, neither of which was very helpful in fulfilling her goal of being a rock star.  She received her Masters degree in Tudor/Stuart History from the College of William and Mary. 

Member: Terri Kirby-Hathaway
Seat: Education
Term: 11/07-11/09
Marine Education Specialistst
Manteo, NC

Terri has been North Carolina Sea Grant’s Marine Education Specialist since October 2003, after serving the previous 18.5 years as Education Curator for the North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island.  She has a BS in Marine Biology from UNC-Wilmington and a MAEd in Science Education from East Carolina University. 

In addition to working with educators across North Carolina, Terri is involved in the Center for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE) SouthEast and a few of its projects, including the SouthEast Phytoplankton Monitoring Network (SEPMN).   She also coordinates an online graduate course in oceanography for North Carolina educators and writes and edits the Scotch Bonnet, a newsletter for marine educators.

Recently, Terri completed a needs assessment of North Carolina elementary teachers (K-5) in public, private, and charter schools.  She is currently analyzing the data to learn about the status of ocean education in the elementary classroom in the state, what ocean information elementary teachers need, and how that material should be delivered to them. 

She is active in state, regional, and national professional organizations, presenting at numerous conferences and serving on boards, in addition to co-chairing the National Marine Educators Association’s annual conference in 2003. 

Terri and her oceanographer husband Kent enjoy traveling; they count Finland, Ecuador and the Galapagos, and the US as their favorite destinations so far.  They live in Southern Shores, on North Carolina’s beautiful Outer Banks, with their three rambunctious cats! 

Member: Roger Kirchen
Seat: VA Dept. of Historic Resources- Alternate
Term: N/A
Project Review Archaeologist
Richmond, VA

Roger W. Kirchen obtained a B.S. degree in Anthropology from James Madison University and an M.A. degree from Wake Forest University.  He has worked for over 15 years as a research archaeologist and consultant in Virginia, North Carolina, and Maryland.  His diverse research interests span Southeast and Mid-Atlantic prehistory, colonial backcountry settlement, and European gunflint production.  Roger joined the Virginia Department of Historic Resources in 2004 and works as a reviewer for state and Federal projects.

David Krop
Seat: The Mariners’ Museum-Alternate
Term: 3/08-3/10
Conservation Project Manager, USS Monitor
Newport News, VA

David was born in Virginia Beach and never strayed far from the water.  After receiving his BA in history from James Madison University, he attended the graduate program in Maritime Studies at East Carolina University (ECU) where he received his MA in maritime history.  While at ECU, he worked at the Maritime Studies Conservation Laboratory, which specializes in non-toxic, minimal intervention artifact stabilization.  He also spent two years with the Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck Project, conserving artifacts from what is believed to be the remains of Blackbeard’s flagship that sunk off North Carolina in 1718.

 David is the Conservation Project Manager for the USS Monitor at The Mariners’ Museum.  He manages the conservation of over 200 tons of metal and organic artifacts recovered by NOAA and the US Navy from the wreck site of the USS Monitor.  He also actively participated in the development of the USS Monitor Center’s award-winning exhibit, Ironclad Revolution.  David has examined numerous shipwrecks in Virginia, North Carolina, and the Caribbean.  He also enjoys using a rod and reel to study the pelagic species that frequent the Gulf Stream off Hatteras, North Carolina.

Member: Susan Langley
Seat: Archaeological Research
Term: 2/08-2/10
Maryland Historical Trust
Crownsville, MD

Dr. Susan Langley earned her BA in anthropology at Trinity College, University of Toronto, with a minor in Fine Art History; her MA in archaeology and law and her doctorate in underwater archaeology, both at the University of Calgary.  She certified in Heritage Resource Management through the Faculty of Environmental Design at UofC and holds a Masters in spinning (as in spinning wheels and textile technology) from Olds College. 

She has taught in the Department of Behavioural Sciences at Mount Royal College and in the Archaeology and Continuing Education Departments at the University of Calgary and instructed a course in Native Plant Use for the Horticulture Department of Olds College, Alberta.  She has taught underwater archaeology at Salisbury University, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Washington College and currently at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and designed and teaches the pilot Maritime Archaeology online course for Goucher College.

She has worked in diverse locations such as the iceberg filled waters of Labrador on the San Juan, a Basque whaling galleon sunk in 1565, in Red Bay, and in the mountain lakes of western Canada where she relocated and studied the remains of Project Habbakuk, a secret World War II vessel prototype.  She spent a couple of years teaching underwater archaeology in Thailand for a consortium of Asian nations through UNESCO.

Thirteen years ago Dr. Langley accepted the position of State Underwater Archaeologist for Maryland.  The opening of the Historic Shipwreck Preserve focusing on the German Submarine, U-1105, was her first project. She works with both federal and State agencies on the submerged aspects of Maryland’s role in the War of 1812 and Revolutionary War. Currently, she is involved in surveying the Atlantic coast in partnership with other State and federal agencies.  She is also preparing to begin a series of lecture cruises in the Mediterranean.  Her recent passion is for beekeeping

Dr. Langley has written and contributed to numerous publications. Most recently she has contributed  “Shipbuilding in Maryland...Skipjacks and Bugeyes and Clippers, Oh My!”  an  entry for the online Maryland Online Encyclopedia, prepared by the Maryland Historical Society.  Posted at: www.mdoe.org (2005).  Managing Canada’s Heritage Resources, A Legal Guide, which she co-authored with Allan Ingelson, LLB, LLM, Associate Dean of Law at University of Calgary is currently in preparation and presently she is working on two volumes, one on fundraising and one on Operation Habbakuk, a WWII vessel prototype for an aircraft carrier made of ice.  She is a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer and recently learned to hardhat dive. 

Member: Richard Lawrence
Seat: North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources
Term: N/A
Deputy State Archaeologist, Underwater
Kure Beach, NC

Richard Lawrence graduated from the University of Colorado with a degree in Anthropology in 1973. He began working with the Division of Archives and History’s Underwater Archaeology Branch in 1975 and was appointed the Branch’s director in 1981.

Over the past thirty years Richard has been involved in a variety of projects throughout the state, and has investigated hundreds of underwater archaeological sites including prehistoric canoes, colonial sailing vessels, numerous Civil War shipwrecks, and coastal and river steamboats.

In 1979 Richard was among the first divers to explore the USS Monitor and in 1993 he directed the Cape Fear River Comprehensive Survey.  Over ninety shipwrecks were documented, from the city of Wilmington to the river’s mouth; including two Confederate ironclads, a blockade-runner, and numerous steamboats, workboats, and barges.

Since 1996 Richard has been involved in all phases of research and management for the shipwreck site in Beaufort Inlet thought to be Blackbeard’s flagship Queen Anne’s Revenge and is a part of the five-member Archaeological Advisory Committee.

Richard was also responsible for having the remains of USS Huron, offshore of Nags Head, designated as the state's first shipwreck park. He is currently developing a management plan for Civil War shipwrecks lost during naval activities in the sounds and rivers of North Carolina.

Richard has written numerous reports and articles on underwater archaeology in North Carolina. He and his wife, Jane, live in Wilmington, and have five sons.

Member: Larry Murphy
Seat: National Park Service
Term: N/A
Chief, NPS Submerged Resources Center
Santa Fe, NM

Larry Murphy is currently chief of the National Park Service’s Submerged Resources Center located in Santa Fe, New Mexico (www.nps.gov/submerged).  He has been with SRC since its inception as Submerged Cultural Resources Unit in 1980, which was the first federal underwater archeological team. Larry received his undergraduate degree in anthropology and philosophy from Florida State University and master’s in anthropology from Brown University, where he completed PhD coursework.  He has been professionally involved in underwater archeology since 1973, and he has participated in or led more than 110 underwater archeological research projects on both inundated terrestrial and maritime casualty sites, including research on the USS Arizona, CSS Alabama, HL Hunley, HMS Fowey, shipwrecks of Isle Royale, Guam, Bikini Atoll, Kiska Harbor, Aleutian Islands, Dry Tortugas National Park and Biscayne National Park. 

Larry has more than ninety publications including monographs, reports, professional papers, articles, and book chapters.  Major publications include: Reports on Isle Royale National Park Shipwrecks, USS Arizona, Dry Tortugas National Park shipwrecks, Bikini Atoll wrecks and 19 articles in the Encyclopaedia of Underwater and Maritime Archaeology published 1997 by British Museum Press.

The Submerged Resources Center has from its outset made public outreach a basic part of its operations.  This outreach has included work with local and national media, direct involvement in educational programs for K-12 and college groups as well as adults.  SRC public education initiatives include Web access, live underwater broadcasts, interpretive panels, maps, books and brochures that are designed to increase public understanding of and accessibility to maritime sites, present our nation’s rich maritime heritage, and provide information about submerged cultural resource stewardship.

Member: Robert Neyland
Seat: Navy
Term: N/A
Head, Naval Historical Center Underwater Archaeology Branch
Washington, DC

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Member: Joseph Schwarzer
Seat: Maritime Museum
Term: 8/06-8/08
President, Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum
Hatteras, North Carolina

Joseph Schwarzer has spent most of his career in the fields of nautical archaeology and maritime history.  He has held various management positions in the United States and overseas and has dealt with all aspects of historic shipwreck materials for more than thirty years.  Joseph worked with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) in various capacities from 1975 through 1990 and maintains a close relationship with that organization to the present day.

Since assuming the directorship at the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in 1995, he has helped to develop heritage tourism trails and promote the development of heritage tourism in Dare County and Coastal North Carolina. In 1997, Joseph was among those to review the National Marine Sanctuary’s comprehensive, long range plan for the USS Monitor.

Joseph has also worked with the recreational diving community and NOAA to help establish the U-701 as a diving preserve.  He has had extensive experience in the excavation of ancient and New World shipwrecks and has been directly involved in the debate over regulations governing the management of submerged cultural resources.  Most recently, he has helped to develop a Shipwreck Archaeology Workshop for the Museum and have been a contributing author to the final report on the eleventh century Serce Limani shipwreck.

Member: Wayne Smith
Seat: Conservation
Term: 2/08-2/10
Professor of Conservation, Texas A&M University
College Station, TX

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Member: Mark Wilde-Ramsing
Seat: North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources-Alternate
Term: N/A
Project Director, Queen Anne’s Revenge
Morehead City, NC

Mark U. Wilde-Ramsing was born in Oakland, California and moved to Alexandria, Virginia and graduated from T.C. Williams High School. During his undergraduate studies, Mark pursued a career in archaeology, which led to directing a comprehensive archaeological site survey of New Hanover County, North Carolina. In 1978 Mark took a permanent position with the North Carolina Underwater Archaeology Branch where he developed their submerged cultural resource management program.

During his career with the state, Mark has surveyed many miles of North Carolina waters, supervised the investigations of numerous submerged resources from preliminary examinations to salvage recovery - dugout canoes to 20th century steamers, and written numerous position papers regarding their management. These include placing twenty-one Civil War shipwrecks on the National Register of Historic Places as a thematic district, organizing professional workshops to develop guidelines for the protection of small, indigenous craft, developing the Branch's inventory of archaeological and historic shipwrecks, which now includes nearly 6000 entries, and compiling a bibliography of all research related to maritime cultural resources in North Carolina waters. During these endeavors Mark sought input not only from marine archaeologists, historians and conservators, but those from many related fields, particularly physical sciences such as marine geology and coastal geography, which provide the environmental foundation upon which to interpret the submerged archaeological record. He also relied heavily on local informants and watermen.

During his career Mark has focused on non-collegiate public education by developing outreach programs to raise awareness of the activities and goals of archaeology. Ten years ago, after the discovery of the Queen Anne's Revenge shipwreck site, Mark was appointed director of project operations and was transferred to Carteret County to oversee one of the most significant and exciting underwater discoveries in recent times. A graduate of Wake Forest University and the Catholic University of America, Mark is currently completing his studies at East Carolina University in the Cultural Resources Management PhD program.

Member: Joanna Wilson
Seat: Virginia Dept. of Historic Resources
Term: N/A
Project Review Archaeologist
Richmond, VA

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