Why MAST Matters
Webinar
Speaker:
Jessica Berry is founder and CEO of MAST. She is an author and maritime archaeologist MA (Hons) MA ACIfA. She is a Visiting Fellow of Bournemouth University, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. She is a former journalist with UK broadsheets. After completing her Masters at Flinders University in Australia, she worked internationally as a maritime archaeologist, first in Australia as Assistant Curator at the Western Australian Maritime Museum before working for Wessex Archaeology as a Project Supervisor and then at the Association for the Development of Maritime Archaeological Research (Adramar) in Rennes, France. She was part of the project team excavating the Swash Channel wreck since 2010, a 17th century Dutch armed merchantman off Poole in Dorset. She is the archaeological advisor for the 1685 Coronation wreck in Cornwall. She is an HSE Scuba and HSE SSDE, a PADI Open Water Instructor and an SSI Instructor and holds a commercially endorsed Advanced Powerboat licence.
Chairman:
Dr Giles Richardson is a maritime archaeologist, MA (Hons) PCIfA and an Invincible Project team diver. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Bath’s History of Technology Research Unit, and completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Maritime Archaeology. His research focuses on the archaeology of the Victorian Royal Navy. He continues to work on projects across Europe, notably the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology’s excavations at the sunken Ptolemaic city of Heracleion-Thonis in Egypt. He holds HSE Surface Supply (Offshore Top-Up) and Professional SCUBA qualifications, and is a BSAC Advanced Diver and Open Water Instructor and a PADI Open Water Instructor.
Speaker(s):
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Jessica Berry
Founder & CEO
Maritime Archaeology Sea Trust
Chairman:
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Dr Giles Richardson
Senior Archaeologist
Maritime Archaeology Sea Trust