2015 ASM Symposium

ASM held its Annual Spring Symposium on Saturday April 25 in Schmidt Center at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, MD

The talks included

• Citizen Science Program at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
    - Animal species diversity at the Shaw's Folly and Sparrow's Rest sites.
       Kiley Gilbert and Jim Gibb (SERC)
    - Ceramic assemblages from Shaw's Folly and Sparrow's Rest.
       Sarah Grady (SERC)
   - Button making in Delaware.
      Bailey Berry (SERC)
   
• Public Archaeology in Baltimore City.     [Richard E. Stearns Memorial Lecture]
  Lisa Kraus (Maryland State Highway Administration)


• Public Archaeology at the Jewish Museum.     [Iris McGillivray Memorial Lecture]
  Esther Doyle-Read (University of Maryland Baltimore County)


• Establishing Social Memory: The Crownsville Hospital Research Project.   [Student Spotlight]
  Jonathan Schuster (Howard Community College)


• The Value of Archaeology in Education: A Case Study.   
  Laura Cripps (Howard Community College)


• CAT Workshop: Native American Overview (Maryland).
  Carol Ebright (Maryland State Highways Administration)

CCASM is a chapter of ASM.  At least three CCASM members attended the Symposium, and one (Sarah) was a presenter.