Mark U. Wilde-Ramsing, Ph.D., Mark Wilde-Ramsing has been a staff archaeologist with the North Carolina Division of Archives and History/Underwater Archaeology Branch since 1978 when he was hired to develop their environmental review system for submerged cultural resource management program. During his career with the state, Wilde-Ramsing has surveyed many miles of North Carolina waters and supervised a full range of underwater investigations on sites ranging from dugout canoes to 20th Century steamers. During these endeavors Wilde-Ramsing sought input from marine archaeologists, historians and conservators, as well as, those from many related fields, particularly physical sciences, to help interpret and preserve the submerged archaeological record. In 1997, after the discovery of the Queen Anne’s Revenge shipwreck, Wilde-Ramsing was appointed project director of one of the most significant and exciting underwater discoveries in recent times. A graduate of Wake Forest University and the Catholic University of America, Wilde-Ramsing recently completed his doctorate studies in Coastal Resource Management at East Carolina University.

Sarah C. Watkins-Kenney, Sarah Watkins-Kenney has been Chief Conservator at the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Office of State Archaeology – Underwater Archaeology Branch, Queen Anne’s Revenge Archaeological Conservation Laboratory (QAR Lab) since spring 2003.  She has a Bachelors’ degree in Archaeological Conservation from Cardiff University UK (1977) and a Masters (M.A.) degree in Museum and Gallery Management from City University London UK (1994). She has worked as an archaeological conservator for a range of organizations including museums, universities, regional conservation services and archaeology projects in the UK and Italy. She was Head of the Metals, Ceramics and Glass Conservation Section at the British Museum from 1994 to 2003. She is a Fellow of the International Institute for Conservation (FIIC); an Accredited Conservator (ACR) (by UK ICON - Institute for Conservation) and an Accredited Member of the UK Institute of Archaeology (MIfA). She is also, since 2008, a PhD candidate in the Coastal Resources Management Program at East Carolina University, NC.

Chris Southerly, Project Archaeologist/Divemaster, Digital Information Supervisor. Chris was born and raised in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. He did undergraduate work in biochemistry at Virginia Tech before earning his BS (1990) in Anthropology/Archaeology from James Madison University. Chris also did graduate work in historical archaeology at the College of William and Mary before focusing on underwater archaeology and completing his MA (2003) in Maritime History and Underwater Archaeology from East Carolina University.

Over the last decade and a half Chris has had experience working on terrestrial and underwater sites from prehistoric to modern times, primarily in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and Bermuda. He joined the Underwater Archaeology Branch as a staff archaeologist in 2000, concentrating on the environmental review program for the state's terrestrial and submerged cultural resources. As an archaeologist and divemaster he has participated in numerous surveys and research projects across the state. Chris turned his focus to the Queen Anne's Revenge Shipwreck Project full-time in 2002 supervising fieldwork and diving, coordinating data management/analysis, inter-office networking, and GIS development.

Wendy Welsh, Conservation Laboratory Manager. Wendy is a native of Swansboro, NC and obtained a BA in Anthropology/Archaeology at Appalachian State University in 2000. In 1996 she started her career working on terrestrial sites and turned to underwater archaeology in June 2002 when she accepted an archaeological technician position with the QAR project. In July 2003, Wendy was transferred to Greenville to manage the QAR conservation laboratory where she insures that the lab runs smoothly and efficiently as the large volume of artifacts from the shipwreck are documented, processed and analyzed.

Karen Browning,

Shanna Daniel,

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Nathan Henry, lead conservator with the Underwater Archaeology Branch's Kure Beach preservation laboratory, has worked on dozens of shipwrecks in the U.S., particularly Civil War shipwrecks in North Carolina's inland sounds and rivers. Since 1997, he has worked with artifact documentation and conservation with the QAR project. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology from UNC-Wilmington, and is completing a Master's thesis in East Carolina University's program in marine studies.

Julep Gillman-Bryan, Dive Safety Officer, Research Vessel Captain, Marine Technician Born in Columbia, SC, Julep grew up in Sanford, NC, and lived for years aboard a Dutch-built wooden sailboat with her husband Peter. She attended UNC-CH, and is a graduate of the Cape Fear Community College Marine Technology Program. As a US Coast Guard licensed captain, and with certifications as a PADI Master SCUBA Diver Trainer, Emergency First Response Instructor, DAN Oxygen Provider Instructor, and SCUBA repair technician, Julep servesa key role in all UAB field operations. She has worked on scores of shipwreck surveys and
excavations across North Carolina since joining the UAB in 1986. An experienced underwaterphotographer she has taken countless offshore photos recreationally and the majority of underwater photographs on the QAR shipwreck site.

Madeline P. Spencer, Office Manager, Madeline (her nickname is "Punk") was born and raised in Southport, North Carolina. She attended Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington with a focus in Accounting. In 2003, after working for many years for a local Accountant, she went to work at the NC Maritime Museum at Southport as the Gift Shop Manager. Besides operating the gift shop, Punk was responsible for publicity, program/speaker scheduling, museum membership, creator and author of a monthly newsletter, creator of the Spring/Fall into History Adult Program Series, War of the Rebellion Program Series, "A Taste of NC Wines" fundraiser, and numerous Adult and Children's Programs. In 2008, the opportunity arose for Madeline to transfer to the NC Underwater Archaeology Branch in the Office Manager position. Her new responsibilities include: UAB and QAR budgets, purchasing, and the necessary records for each, maintenance of historic shipwreck files, preparing a port records database, UAB and QAR reports for publication or posting on the internet and other general office duties.

Punk lives with her husband in Southport and takes the Southport/Fort Fisher Ferry to work daily - "What a way to Commute!"

Myron Rolston, QAR Conservation Technician, Myron came to the QAR project in the fall of 2005. Myron earned a B.S. in Biology from Marietta College (1993) and an M.S. in Environmental Science from Ohio University (1996). His thesis is titled "The Jornada Long term Ecological Research Site revisited: A Comparison of Similarity Indices and The Effects of Nitrogen Fertilization". He has been active in terrestrial archaeology since he was ten years old in Ohio and West Virginia. Myron is also a charter member of the Central Virginia Blacksmith Guild and has a strong interest in 18th. Century material culture. Coming from a long line of Gunsmiths and Cutlerists his interests tend to focus on small arms.

Jonathan Schleier, Jonathan was born in Delanson, a small town in upstate New York. He received his B.A in Anthropology from Franklin Pierce College in 1998. He spent several years working as a contract archaeologist, mostly in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions. Jonathan is currently enrolled in the Anthropology graduate program at East Carolina University. He is also working on a graduate level certificate in Geographic Information Systems. His research interests include landscape archaeology, and the application of geographic tools and theory to archaeology.

Lauren McMillan, Lauren, a native Virginian, has recently joined the QAR team in 2008. Lauren received her B.A. in Historic Preservation from the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and is currently working on her M.A. in Anthropology at East Carolina University, with a focus on Historical Archaeology. As an undergraduate, Lauren learned the value of a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the past by combining archaeology with historical research, architecture, museum studies and folklore. She was able to use these skills as an archaeologist at Stratford Hall Plantation, the birthplace of Robert E. Lee, and at Ferry Farm, George Washington's boyhood home. Her main area of interest is 18th century material culture, leading to her thesis project of evaluating tobacco pipe stem dating methods.

Lindley S. Butler, Ph.D., Project Historian, is a native of Eden, North Carolina and presently resides in Wentworth. He received his A.B. (1961), M.A. (1964), and Ph.D. (1971) degrees in history from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A second field, historical archaeology, was begun at Hebrew University, Jerusalem (1966) and in summer institutes at Flowerdew Hundred, Virginia. His field experience includes the ancient Near East, early colonial America, colonial Barbados, and surveys of inland navigation structures and Amerindian fish weirs in North Carolina. At Rockingham Community College, Wentworth, he became chair of Social Sciences (1968), was appointed Historian-in-Residence (1974), and retired as Professor Emeritus (1997). He became a volunteer diver with the North Carolina Underwater Archaeology Branch in 1996 and has been with the QAR Shipwreck Project from the outset. Author or editor of eleven books and numerous articles, sketches, and reviews in North Carolina history, Butler most recently authored Pirates, Privateers, and Rebel Raiders of the Carolina Coast and a National Register District Nomination for Civil War shipwrecks in eastern North Carolina. Currently, he is working on histories of proprietary North Carolina, piracy on the southeast coast, and the Dan River. He has been on the executive board of the North Carolina Maritime History Council since 1995. For "significant contributions to North Carolina history" he received the Christopher Crittenden Award in 2005.

Linda F. Carnes-McNaughton, Ph.D., historic artifact analyst and ceramic specialist, has been volunteering her time and knowledge of historic material culture to the QAR project since the shipwreck's discovery in 1996, but more specifically since 2003 when she was asked to join the team. She has over 30 years of experience as an archaeologist, working primarily in the Southeastern United States. Linda is originally from Georgia, but has made North Carolina her home for over 23 years. She graduated from Georgia State University with a B.A. in Anthropology (1975), and after attending the University of Tennessee for three years, completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology (1997) at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Her dissertation research focused on 19th century pottery production in the state, and she has continued to make pottery research a primary focus. Linda worked as the Archaeology Supervisor for Historic Sites Section, of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources for 12 years (1990-2002) before leaving to take her current position as Curator and Historical Archaeologist of the Cultural Resources Program at Fort Bragg (2002 to present). As a professional archaeologist (RPA) used to working on land-based sites, Linda is learning how to get her "sea legs" and thoroughly enjoys working topside during recovery expeditions. So far, her analysis work for the QAR project has included technical studies of the ceramics, glassware and bottles, brick, tobacco pipes, glass beads, personal gear and other small finds recovered from the shipwreck. When not doing archaeology at Fort Bragg, and volunteering on the QAR Project, she is spending her time on the Board of Directors for the North Carolina Pottery Center and the North Carolina Archaeological Society. When home, she lives in the woods of Chatham County with her husband Kirk, and other woodland critters.

Jim Craig, Ph.D., Geological/artifact analysis, field and laboratory support. Jim Craig was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was raised in Southern New Jersey. He received his B. A. in Geology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1962, his M.S. from Lehigh University in 1964, and his Ph. D. from Lehigh University in 1965. He then spent two years in Washington, D.C. as a Post-doctoral fellow at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. He joined the Geology Department faculty at Texas Tech University in 1967 where he taught until 1970. He then joined the faculty of the Department of Geological Sciences of Virginia Tech in the Fall of 1970 and taught there until he retired in the summer of 2002. Jim won four teaching awards during his 32 years on the Virginia Tech faculty. In March of 2002, the governor of Virginia presented him the 2002 Outstanding Faculty of the Year Award from the State Council for Higher Education. Jim has authored three text books, more than 150 journal publications, and more than 150 abstracts of formal presentations. For many years, his research efforts concentrated on the nature of ore deposits and the ore minerals from which metals are extracted. In the last ten years, he has also carried out studies of the ore mineral analogs that form during the corrosion of metals. He and his students have applied these studies to some of the metal artifacts recovered from the QAR. Their studies on pewter's have provided information that will be useful to marine archaeological studies in many places. Currently, Jim is aiding Jack Callahan and Bill Miller in the study of ballast stones and in the recovery and analysis of gold and lead objects from the QAR.

Sim Wilde, Ph.D.,Education and administrative support. Sim was born and raised in Asheville, N.C., but has lived in Rocky Mount and Elm City for 37 years. Sim has an AA degree from Mars Hill College, a Masters from Western Carolina University, and a Doctorate from UNC at Chapel Hill. He was a teacher in Asheville and Buncombe County for 10 years and a professor, department chairman, and dean at NC Wesleyan College for 17 years. He is currently retired. Sim has written two books and numerous magazine and newspaper articles. He has been active in community theatre and has written numerous play reviews. He has 4 daughters, 2 step-daughters, 10 grandchildren, and 1 great-grandchild. At QAR, Sim volunteers as QAR education coordinator, Dive Live registrar, Queens' Report writer and editor, and all around handyman to the Project Director.

Rob Girard, Illustrator, an Illinois native, has lived in Morehead City since 1981. He earned a BS degree in Art Education from Illinois State University, served in the US Marines for eight years, and likes to travel, having visited 15 countries. He has had a lifelong interest in archaeology and helped to form a non-profit marine archaeology exploration company, working not only as vice-president but also as a diver and artist. He has been employed since 1989 as an aircraft sheet metal mechanic at the Naval Aviation Depot in Cherry Point and works part-time with the QAR project.