Underwater Archaeology of a Pacific Battlefield The WWII Battle of Saipan

Dr. Jennifer McKinnon
, the senior editor, has nearly 20 years of experience conducting archaeology and eight years teaching maritime archaeology. McKinnon was employed as a Senior Lecturer at Flinders University, Australia from 2006-2013 and now is an Assistant Professor at East Carolina University, North Carolina. During her time at Flinders she was the principal investigator of the WWII Maritime Heritage Trail: Battle of Saipan Project, a multi-year teaching and research project that focused on the investigation and interpretation of the WWII Battle of Saipan. This project partnered with Ships of Discovery of which Jennifer is a Research Associate. The project had a strong community engagement component and included students, managers, volunteers, and colleagues from Australia, the US and Saipan. McKinnon received the Governor's Humanities Award for Preservation of CNMI Heritage in 2011 for her work in Saipan. McKinnon has co-edited two books (In Situ
Conservation of Cultural Heritage: Public, Professionals and Preservation
, PAST Foundation;
A Year in Review: 2006 Program in Maritime Archaeology
, Flinders University Maritime Archaeology Monograph Series), published a number of peer-reviewed journal articles (including
Journal of Maritime Archaeology
,
International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
,
Bulletin of the Australasian Institute of Maritime Archaeology
) and written book chapters (two in Springer Press), as well as countless archaeological reports and public outreach products. McKinnon has also reviewed publications for
Journal of Maritime Archaeology, Post-Medieval Archaeology, Maney Publishing, Left Coast Press, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Queensland Archaeological Research,
and
Northeastern Historical Archaeology
.

Dr. Toni Carrell
, co-editor, has 40 years of experience in maritime archaeology with experience in the Caribbean, Western Pacific, Mexico, Great Lakes, and in a variety of lakes and reservoirs in the U.S.  She was employed by the National Park Service Submerged Cultural Resources Unit (NPS-SCR) from 1976-1990. Carrell joined Ships of Discovery in 1990, where she serves as Vice President. During her time with the NPS-SCR, Carrell worked extensively in the Pacific and was the senior author of
Submerged Cultural Resources Assessment of Micronesia
(1990) the first comprehensive archaeological report focusing on underwater cultural heritage in the region. Carrell received an award in 1988 from the Republic of Palau, Bureau of Cultural Resources for her supervision of Operation Sea Mark, a joint NPS and US Navy EOD project directed at documentation of shipwrecks in Palau. Prior to that Carrell received an Advisory Council on Historic Preservation commendation for her work in Kosrae in 1981. She revisited her early work in the Pacific as the senior author of
Maritime History and Archaeology of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
(2009). Carrell has edited or contributed to numerous publications and archaeological reports, published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals (including
Journal of Field Archaeology
,
International Journal of Nautical Archaeology,
and
Historical Archaeology
) and served as a peer-reviewer for the
International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
, among others. She has been collaborating with McKinnon since 2009 on the WWII Maritime Heritage Trail: Battle of Saipan Project.