Royal Gazette Sends Love Our Way
The Royal Gazette featured the upcoming SIAP 2024 season in an extensive article today that nicely reviews our past work and goals for this May and June - thanks Sarah Lagan for a great story! We are already getting inquiries about volunteering (email Michael.jarvis@Rochester.edu) and school visits, and have assembled a strong team of US, UK, and Bermudian archaeologists with a wide range of different skills and interests. Alongside the preparations for digging, University of Rochester engineering students have been analyzing the 17th century daub we found last summer and have come up with a fairly close replication formula through multiple tests. They presented their findings today at the 2024 UR Undergraduate Research Expo and did a great job (admittedly I'm somewhat biased...my daughter Katie was co-PI on the project). A huge thanks to Katie for tackling the esoteric challenge of reverse-engineering Bermudian daub for her Mechanical Engineering class and talking Charlie an
