Selina Ali

This was part of two Masters thesis projects of a Syddansk Universitet students. My duties were to teach others how to use the Faro Arm 3D digitiser and CAD program Rhinoceros 3D to record archaeological timbers. I also taught other how to use Rhino and Adobe Illustrator to create a timber catalog of the Faro-ed elements. Timbers were from both ship wrecks and ship cargo, including barrel staves. I also had to give a demonstration to a group of school children visiting from the Esbjerg International School as part of an activity day that focused on the theme of 'exploration'.

A survey of the Danish Mesolithic coastline in two locations in the Zealand area. Work was both on a boat, excavating bucket samples taken with a large excavator of the prehistoric coastline, and Commercial underwater excavation with SSA and Interspiro equipment.

Sail as part of the crew of the Havhingsten fra Glendalough on the river Spree in Berlin to publicize the opening of the Vikings Exhibit at the Martin Grobius Bau exhibit hall. I during the 10 day stay of the ship in Berlin, I acted as a tour guide on the ship to the general public and the entourage of the Danish Queen including museum representatives and members of the Scandinavian embassy.

3 week survey of a 15th Danish wreck located outside of Stockholm, Sweden in 5 M of depth. Site was operated as a commercial dive site with interspiro equipment and set up. Duties included: Diver supervisor to ensure safety, standby rescue diver, drawing of timbers and artefacts in situ, detailed off set drawings on land, finds handling and sampling, care of dive equipment and maintenence, boat driving, car driving, underwater video recording, offset drawings underwater, and site supervisor on 3 days.

3 weeks diving on two Dutch VOC ship wrecks from the 17th century in a lake south of Rotterdam. Operated as a commercial dive site with Interspiro equipment, dive depths ranged from 18-27 meters using air for shallower sites and nitrox 40 for deeper depths. Work included: dendro sample tagging, offset drawings, sketches of the wreck, surface timber recording, diver dressing, kit set up and maintenance.

Post excavation documentation of the Moenchgut Wreck with the Faro Arm digitser

Worked as a van driver and standby diver for trainee Commercial divers. Duties included: staying fully dressed in kit, ready to jump into the water for a rescue, monitoring all students to ensure safety procedures are followed.

Part of a team that survey a life boat from the early 20th century at the fisheries and seafaring museum in Esbjerg. A total station survey with the plug in termite was used with Rhinoceros 3D to create a 3D set of lines used to create a lines plan and 3D construction plan of the boat.

3 day emergency excavation and recording of a ship wreck from the River Elbe in Cuxhaven, Germany with the Schlewswig-Holstein archaeological trust. Duties included: dendro sampling, finds recovery, timber recording, and total station survey

I ran children activities such as rune carving, necklace beading, and making leather purses with children of all ages, in both Danish and English at different ports around Denmark. This was in association with the Havhingsten fra Glendalough Viking Longship, with the aim of educating children about the Viking Age.

Apprentice in the workshop and helped build the Beetle Whaleboat for Mystic Seaport Maritime Museum in CT, to accompany the Charles Morgan. Also was involved in Building historical craft from the Great Lakes area.

4 weeks at Nevern Castle, a Norman / Welsh castle dating to the 10th Century. Duties included: Section drawing, site planning, level taking, finds cleaning, and standard excavation techniques.

1 week as a supervisor at the mining complex of the Strata Florida Cistercian Abbey. Duties included: supervision of younger students in excavation techniques, finds handling and recovery, and site planning.

3 weeks excavating the Archaeology of the Mabinogion project under Dr. Jemma Bezant. A suspected prehistoric and/or post Roman welsh site. Duties included: supervision of first and second year undergraduate students in their work, cleaning and processing finds, site planning, total station survey, level recording, and standard excavation techniques.

Assisted in a 1 week course for MA students to help teach the correct way to sample, survey, and record a submerged forest. 1 week of excavations which included site planning, sample taking, total station survey, laser scan, and taking crime scene casts of prehistoric footprints in the intertidal zone.

Worked as a found and editor for The Student Researcher: Journal of Undergraduate Research. Duties included liaising with departments and student authors, editing and reviewing all submissions, designing the layout of the journal, formatting all the submissions, dissemination and outreach for the journal, and liaising within the university, and working with the publishing company.

I acted as a tour guide for the university leading and organizing open days. I also worked through the archaeology, history, and anthropology department helping administrate large conferences, and student school days where I spoke about the archaeological process.This also included guiding students on archaeological excavation open days.

Worked as a student intern where I helped keep order in the lab, clean and process incoming artefacts under the supervision of the lab technician, cleaned archaeological remains, animal and human bone identification from the Newport Medieval Ship, dendro sample cleaning and preparation, dendro sampling from around Wales, photographing archaeological artefacts, drawing artefacts, assisting in the packing and unpacking of excavations, and database creation.

8 weeks over the time period working as a boat builder with traditional viking age tools to build a reconstruction of the Oseberg Ship. Duties included: radially splitting logs, building rowing chests, and hewing planks.

2 weeks excavating at a 16th manor house at the National Botanic Gardens. Duties included: supervision of amateur archaeologists, site planning, level taking, finds cleaning, and standard excavation with a trowel.

Borth Beach submerged forest intertidal survey and watching brief for construction works on the waterfront. Duties included: assisting in environmental soil sampling, assisting in dendro sampling, and assisting in site planning and survey.

4 week excavation at Nevern Castle, a Norman/ Welsh castle from the 10th century. Duties included: Site planning, section drawing, level recording, standard excavation with a trowel.

4 week excavation at the Strata Florida Cistercian Abbey. Duties included: site planning, total station recording, finds cleaning, and standard excavation with a trowel.