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Board of Directors
She is the recipient of four awards from the Historical Society of Michigan: a 2007 award for excellence of achievement in the collection, preservation and promotion of state and local history, a 2008 award for her book Icebound! The Adventures of Young George Sheldon and the SS Michigan, a 2009 award for her book written with William Lafferty, Buckets and Belts: Evolution of the Great Lakes Self Unloaders, and a 2009 award shared with the Heritage Museum for a collaborative special museum exhibit and public event. Valerie has written extensively for a variety of magazines and documentary films. She has appeared on major television news networks as well as the Discovery Channel and is a regular presenter at museums, libraries, and film festivals sharing the dramatic stories of ships gone missing on the Great Lakes. Her work has been featured in the book, Voices of the Sweetwater Seas by Bill Keefe and Shipwreck Hunter by Gerry Volgenau. She and partner William Lafferty have just had published the book, Unsolved Mysteries, the Shipwreck Thomas Hume and she is currently working on Fatal Crossing about the long missing Flight 2501 Visit her web page.
He is a regular speaker to local groups and historical societies on the subjects of scuba diving and shipwrecks. He also has created the MSRA web page which grew from his personal research into shipwrecks such as the Chicora, Ironsides, Alpena, Andaste and Northwest Flight 2501. Craig's book. For Those In peril: Shipwrecks of Ottawa County, Michigan is available at the MSRA store, or at www.craigrich.net. The 2nd book in the series, Through Surf and Storm: Shipwrecks of Muskegon County, Michigan will be available in April 2012. is the engineering brains of the outfit, and has developed the necessary support equipment for search and documentation efforts. He manages the field operations for the annual Shipwreck Quest, serves as captain of the research vessel and dive boat, creates computer animations, edits video and co-produces numerous PowerPoint presentations. He has also been involved in the underwater documentation of several shipwrecks off the coast of West Michigan. Jack is in the final stages of development of a new Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) for use by the organization.
Affiliates
Arthur Allen -- Oceanographer, U.S. Coast Guard - Research and Development Center, Groton, CT
William Lafferty PhD, a maritime historian and professor at Wright State University.
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Brendon
Baillod -- Author, marine historian, researcher and collector of Great
Lakes books. Brendon also is co-founder of the Great Lakes Shipwreck
Research Foundation and the Ghost Ships Festival
Guy
Meadows Ph.D. -- Director/Professor, Naval Architecture and Marine
Engineering Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Kenneth
Pott -- Maritime Archaeologist, Fort Miami Historical Society, St.
Joseph, Michigan.
Dr.
David Schwab -- Oceanographer, NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental
Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI.