ABOUT

 Dr. Bill Jeffery has been working as a maritime archaeologist for over 30 years. In 1990, Bill was a member of an Australian team that trained some of China’s first maritime archaeologists. Since 2002, he has been working on various aspects of maritime archaeology in Hong Kong and more recently the training of a number of local divers, and the implementation of maritime archaeology research and excavation projects, the first such projects to be conducted in Hong Kong. Bill’s background in maritime archaeology is in Australia, where after studying with the Western Australian Museum, he formulated and coordinated a maritime heritage program for a state government agency, Heritage South Australia from 1981-2001. He went onto working with the Federated States of Micronesia National Historic Preservation Office and completing a PhD in maritime archaeology at James Cook University. He is a consulting maritime archaeologist to ERM Hong Kong, and Research Associate with the Hong Kong Maritime Museum. He has implemented various types of archaeological and heritage investigations in Australia, the Pacific region, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka and various countries in Africa. Bill has lectured in cultural heritage preservation, maritime archaeology and conducted maritime archaeology field schools with Flinders University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Guam and James Cook University in addition to teaching Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS) training programs in eleven different countries.

 

Some current activities and project work can be seen at:

• http://www.apconf.org
• http://www.hkuhgroup.com
• http://www.hkmaritimemuseum.org
• http://www.islandculture.info/yaptraditionalfishweirs/index.htm
• 2024 Ocean Decade Conference Presentation (Barcelona, Spain, April 10-12, 2024)

 

Blog: INTERPRETING SEABEE JUNKYARD, GUAM 

AN 462, Spring 2016: Advanced Field Methods Archaeology]

 

CREDENTIALS

• A.D., Surveying, University of South Australia
• Graduate Diploma, Maritime Archaeology, Curtin University (Australia)
• Ph.D., Maritime Archaeology, James Cook University (Australia)