Shipwrecks as Underwater Museums: Promoting Submerged Cultural Heritage

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The featured presenter at this month's Underwater Archaeological Society of Chicago's meeting is Dr. Charles Beeker presenting Shipwrecks as Underwater Museums. Indiana University’s efforts to promote and protect submerged cultural resources.

Pre-meeting Informal Social; 06:30 – 07:00
Business Meeting; 07:00 – 08:00
***Featured Presentation: 08:00 – 09:00
You are welcome to attend the business meeting, but the program starts at 8pm so you may wait until then to join the program if you prefer.

The Underwater Archaeological Society of Chicago is happy to host Dr. Charles D. Beeker, PhD h.c., RPA. He is the Director of the Center for Underwater Science in the School of Public Health of Indiana University Bloomington.
Dr. Beeker will present- Shipwrecks as Underwater Museums: Indiana University’s efforts to promote and protect submerged cultural resources. In particular Indiana University (IU) assists the Indiana DNR with the established J.D. Marshall Nature Preserve, and developing a formal proposal to create a second Nature Preserve around the Shipwreck Muskegon.

BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Charles D. Beeker joined the IU faculty in 1974 and has served in a variety of capacities including as a lecturer, clinical professor, and the founding director of the IU Underwater Science and Academic Diving Program. He is a registered professional archaeologist, PADI Master Instructor, and has been teaching recreational and scientific diving classes for over 40 years. He has served as a member of the federal Archaeological Working Committee for the 1988 Abandoned Shipwreck Act and was appointed to the Marine Protected Areas Federal Advisory Committee in 2005. Beeker has assisted in establishing underwater parks across the United States and the Caribbean, using a model of multidisciplinary scientific investigations of both the submerged cultural and biological resources.
He has been involved in writing numerous articles, the latest: 2020 Galloway, Tori L., Beeker, Charles D., Johnson, Claudia C., Jaffke, Denise. "Archaeological Investigations at La Isabela, Dominican Republic". Advisory Council of Underwater Archaeology Proceedings 2019. Society for Historical Archaeology. Has worked on several books, including: 2016* Hanselmann, Frederick H., Charles D. Beeker. The Wreck of the Quedagh Merchant: Captain Kidd’s Lost Ship. In Charles R. Ewen and Russell K. Skowronek (eds.), Pieces of Eight: More of the Archaeology of Piracy. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.