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Meide recording the ship's bell discovered on the 18th century "Storm Wreck."

Charles T. Meide Jr., known as Chuck Meide, (born March 23, 1971) is an underwater and maritime archaeologist and currently the Director of LAMP (Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program), the research arm of the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum located in St. Augustine, Florida.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Meide, of Syrian descent on his father's side, was born in Jacksonville, Florida, and raised in the adjacent coastal town of Atlantic Beach. He earned BA and MA degrees in Anthropology with a focus in underwater archaeology in 1993 and 2001 from Florida State University,[7] where he studied under George R. Fischer, and undertook Ph.D. studies in Historical Archaeology at the College of William and Mary starting the following year. Meide has participated in a wide array of shipwreck and maritime archaeological projects across the U.S., especially in Florida, and throughout the Caribbean and Bermuda and in Australia and Ireland. From 1995 to 1997 he participated in the search for, discovery, and total excavation of La Salle's shipwreck, La Belle , lost in 1686.[8][9] From December 1997 to January 1998 he served as Co-Director (with David Johnson) of the Kingstown Harbour Shipwreck Project, an investigation sponsored by the Institute of Maritime History and Florida State University into the wreck of the French frigate Junon (1778) lost in 1780 in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.[10] [11] [12] In 1999 he directed the Dog Island Shipwreck Survey, a comprehensive maritime survey of the waters around a barrier island off the coast of Franklin County, Florida,[13] and between 2004 and 2006 he directed the Achill Island Maritime Archaeology Project off the coast of County Mayo, Ireland.[14][15] Since taking over as Director of LAMP in 2006, he has directed the First Coast Maritime Archaeology Project, a state-funded research and educational program focusing on shipwrecks and other maritime archaeological resources in the offshore and inland waters of Northeast Florida.[16] In 2009, during this project, Meide discovered the "Storm Wreck," a ship from the final fleet to evacuate British troops and Loyalist refugees from Charleston at the end of the Revolutionary War, which wrecked trying to enter St. Augustine in late December 1782. He led the archaeological excavation of this shipwreck site each summer from 2010 through 2015, overseeing the recovery of thousands of well-preserved artifacts.

On July 10, 2014, the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum announced at a press conference that Meide would lead an expedition to search for the lost French fleet of Jean Ribault, wrecked in 1565. The search area was located in Canaveral National Seashore waters, and was carried out in partnership with the National Park Service, the State of Florida, NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration, the Center for Historical Archaeology, and the Institute of Maritime History.[17] When one of Ribault’s ship’s was discovered by a treasure hunter, Meide along with a small team of scholars worked closely with lawyers for the Republic of France, providing historical evidence leading to a federal court ruling that the vessel remains the property of the French government. [18]

From 2016 to 2019, Meide directed the excavation of the "Anniversary Wreck," another 18th-century shipwreck with a well-preserved assemblage of artifacts, believed to represent a merchant vessel lost while trying to enter St. Augustine.

In the 2020s Meide has periodically served as adjunct faculty at Flagler College, teaching several classes in Maritime Archaeology.

Chuck Meide served on the board of the Institute of Maritime History from 2005 to 2022, as vice president from 2009 to 2022, and currently serves in an advisory role. He is the co-founder of the Cannon Finders Club (established in 1996 in Cincinnati, Ohio). Meide has been featured in many documentary films, including episodes of PBS’s Secrets of the Dead and Nova, Science Channel’s Shipwreck Secrets, and National Geographic Channel’s Drain the Oceans.

Meide has authored over 50 research papers, reports, theses, book chapters, and journal articles.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ St-Augustine-Lighthouse. "Home". St Augustine Light House. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  • ^ "LAMP Team". Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program.
  • ^ "Chuck Meide – W&M AGSC". Archived from the original on 2011-06-10. Retrieved 2010-05-27. Graduate Student Research, Department of Anthropology, College of William & Mary webpage
  • ^ "The Keeper's Blog: LAMPosts". www.blogstaugustinelighthouse.org. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  • ^ "Lighthouse Names Director for Marine Archaeology". St. Augustine Record. 5 January 2006. Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 7 August 2010.
  • ^ "Meet Chuck Meide". NOAA Ocean Exploration Careers. August 2014.
  • ^ "Best bets on the Net". Jacksonville.com. 1997-08-20.
  • ^ Bruseth, James E.; Turner, Toni S. (2005). From a Watery Grave: The Discovery and Excavation of La Salle's Shipwreck, La Belle. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1-58544-347-5.
  • ^ "Museum Archaeology in a Seventeenth-Century Shipwreck Exhibit". Museum Worlds: Advances in Research 4:155-166. 2016.
  • ^ Johnson, David, Meide, Chuck (1998). "In Soufreries Shadow: An Introduction to an Historic Shipwreck in Kingstown Harbour, St. Vincent and the Grenadines". Underwater Archaeology. edited by Lawrence E. Babits, Catherine Fach, and Ryan Harris, pp.79-87.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • ^ "The Kingstown Harbour Shipwreck Project". www.maritimehistory.org. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  • ^ "Team studies wreck of French frigate lost in Kingstown in 1780". www.searchlight.vc/. Retrieved 2020-03-20.
  • ^ Meide, Chuck (2000). "Dog Island Shipwreck Survey 1999: Report of Historical and Archaeological Investigations". FSU Program in Underwater Archaeology Research Lol Reports. 4.
  • ^ "Achill Island Maritime Archaeology Project". Institute of Maritime History. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  • ^ "Achill Island Maritime Archaeology Project". Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program.
  • ^ "First Coast Maritime Archaeology Project". Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program.
  • ^ "Archaeologists mount search for lost French fleet of 1565". jacksonville.com. Florida Times-Union. 10 July 2014.
  • ^ "Treasure Fever". hakaimagazine.com. Retrieved 2020-03-20.
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