# overview
Dr. Carolyn Kennedy is a nautical archaeologist specializing in shipbuilding of Europe and North America over the past five hundred years. Dr. Kennedy has worked on underwater archaeology projects around the world, including in Spain, Canada, the US, and the Marshall Islands, and she has directed two nautical archaeology projects: the Shelburne Shipyard project in Lake Champlain, Vermont, and the Gaspe Maritime Archaeology Project in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence, eastern Canada. Her research interests include wooden shipbuilding technologies, ship design and construction, eastern North American maritime history, and conservation of waterlogged archaeological materials.

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18th Century North American Shipbuilding

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Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

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Concordia University - (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)

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Integrating digital and conventional recording techniques for the documentation and reconstruction of an 18th-Century wooden ship from Alexandria, VA

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Vermont's Steamboat Pioneer: Captain Jahaziel Sherman of Vergennes

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Traveller Impressions of Lake Champlain Steamboats, 1827-1842

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Note de recherche. Shipwrecked at Lands End: The Gasp Maritime Archaeology Project 2022 Field Season

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Four 19th-Century Steamboats in Shelburne Shipyard, Lake Champlain, Vermont, USA

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An Analysis of an 18th-Century Sailing Lighter Discovered Along the Alexandria, VA, Waterfront

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A Call to Action Regarding Vinegar Syndrome Degradation of 1:1 Drawings in Nautical Archaeology

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Shelburne Shipyard Steamboat Graveyard: Archaeological Investigation of Four Steamboat Wrecks

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The History and Archaeology of the Lake Champlain Steamboat Phoenix II (1820-1837)

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Institute of Nautical Archaeology - (College Station, Texas, United States)

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Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, MS 4352; 

# inTheNews[].label
Nautical Archaeologists Searching for Shipwrecks off Gaspé Coast