Technical Field Reports


Piering into the Past: Lost Ports of Manitowoc, Sheboygan, and Ozaukee Counties
Through Fog and Angry Seas: Underwater Archaeological Investigationsfrom the 2024-2025 Field Seasons
Ships Lost, Stories Found: Underwater Archaeological Investigations from the 2023-2024 Field Seasons
A Tale of Two Centerboards: Double Centerboard Sailing Ships of the Great Lakes
Diving into Wisconsin Shipwreck Education: Archaeological Outreach 2022-2023
DRAFT - A Short Survey off of Long Piers: Settlement-Era Piers of Door County
Bridging Worlds: The Ghost Ports of Kewaunee County
From Behind Masks: Underwater Archaeological Investigations from the 2020-2022 Field Seasons
Self-Unloading Schooner Barges: A Great Lakes Regional Context
Ronksville Pier: A Mid-19th Century Commercial Pier in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin
Significance through Obscurity: An Agglomeration of Wisconsin’s Submerged Archaeological Sites
Scow Schooners: A Regional Analysis
Storms and Strandings, Collisions and Cold: Shipwreck Surveys of the 2018 Field Season
“A” is for Archaeology: Underwater Archaeological Investigations from the 2016 and 2017 Field Seasons
Sailing Canallers: A Great Lakes Regional Context
Great Lakes Sailing Canallers and Other Underwater Archaeological Investigations from the 2016 Field Season
Preliminary Report on the SS Wisconsin Archaeological Field Project, Summer 2015
Fast Sailers and Quick Sands: Underwater Archaeological Investigations from the 2015 Field Season
To Fuel, Feed, and Build the Heartland: Underwater Archaeological Investigations from the 2014 Field Season
Lake Michigan - Wisconsin National Marine Sanctuary Proposal
With Waves in Their Wake: Underwater Archaeological Investigations from the 2013 Field Season
Wisconsin Coal Haulers: Underwater Archaeological Investigations from the 2012 Field Season
The Golden Age of Sail on the Great Lakes: Underwater Archaeological Investigations of Wisconsin's Trading Fleet 2010-2011
Wisconsin's Historic Shipwrecks: An Overview and Analysis of Locations for a State/Federal Partnership with the National Marine Sanctuary Program
Myths and Mysteries: Underwater Archaeological Investigation of the Lumber Schooner Rouse Simmons, Christmas Tree Ship
Small Boats on a Big Lake: Underwater Archaeological Investigations of Wisconsin's Trading Fleet 2007
Wheat Chaff and Coal Dust: Underwater Archaeological Investigations of the Grain Schooners "Daniel Lyons" and "Kate Kelly"
Wisconsin's Cross-Planked Mosquito Fleet: Underwater Archaeological Investigations of the Scow Schooners "Iris", "Ocean Wave", and "Tennie and Laura"
Report on Phase I Marine Magnetometer Survey in Death’s Door Passage, Door County, Wisconsin, 1989
Survey of Submerged Cultural Resources in Northern Door County, 1988 Field Season Report.
Inventory of Vessel Losses in Death’s Door, Door County, Wisconsin, and Surrounding Waters 1837-1938
Survey of Submerged Cultural Resources: Selected Sites in Lakes Michigan and Superior. A Report on the 1991 Field Season.
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