Patricia D. Altschuller. Director of Educational Services.
(B.S., New York State University College at New Paltz; postgraduate study, Bridgewater State College, Northeastern University, and Hunter College.) Former classroom teacher of history and social studies; recipient of Outstanding Young Educator Award; former docent. Education.

Jean C. Banker. Registrar.
(B.A., University of Massachusetts; advanced courses in computer science, Rochester Institute of Technology.) Former Registrar, Strong Museum, Rochester, N.Y.; database manager in the private sector. Active in professional organizations. Cataloguing; collections management; database systems and methods.

Mary Jean Blasdale. Collections Manager.
(B.A., Smith College.) Former Trustee; Vice President; and Chair of the Collections Committee, Old Dartmouth Historical Society; curatorial volunteer; Registrar. Author: A Picture History of Fairhaven; Artists of New Bedford: A Biographical Dictionary; Caring for New Bedford’s Children 1838-1849. Mayoral citation for contributions to the cultural life of New Bedford. Collections management; cataloguing; fine arts collections.

Michael P. Dyer. Librarian and Curator of Rare Books, Kendall Institute.
(B.A., York College; Diploma, Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies; M.A., The Pennsylvania State University.) Former Museum Studies Intern at Mystic Seaport Museum; Curatorial Intern, Kendall Whaling Museum, 1994; Librarian and Curator of Maritime History, Kendall Whaling Museum. Previously on the administrative and curatorial staffs of the Kittery [Maine] Historical and Naval Museum, the Historical Society of York County, Pennsylvania, and the Agricultural and Industrial Museum of York County, Pennsylvania. Author of articles on whaling art, history, and technology. Library; maritime history resources and bibliography; curation of books and manuscripts; library systems; research; visitor services.

Robert A. Hauser. Museum Conservator.
(Diploma in graphic arts, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; B.A., M.F.A., Tufts University.) Former Museum Conservator, Museum of American Textile History; Associate Editor, Technology and Conservation; Stackpole Fellow, Council of American Maritime Museums; Kress Conservation Fellow, National Maritime Museum, London; National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Bodleian Library, Oxford University; co-founder, New England Conservation Association; Fellow of the American Institute of Conservation; co-chair, Council of American Maritime Museums committee on disaster preparedness; Institute of Museum Services CAP examiner. Extensive postgraduate training in conservation and preservation technology, disaster preparedness, and disaster recovery. Numerous publications on conservation and restoration. Conservation; handling collections; preservation technology; disaster preparedness.

Candace Lee Heald, Ph.D. Deputy Director–Programs.
(Honors Program, University of Edinburgh [Scotland]; B.A., Brown University; M.A., University of Delaware; Ph.D., Lesley College Graduate School.) Former Maritime Training Program Instructor, Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, Connecticut; NEH Exhibition Associate, Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, Wilmington, Delaware; Assistant Curator, Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence; Director of Education, Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts; museum consultant; active as a consultant and lecturer in museum planning, programs, and education. Education; distance learning; museum partnerships; public programs; volunteers; community relations; professional advancement.

Michael A. Jehle. Director of Curatorial Affairs.
(B.A., Kalamazoo College; Diploma, l’Institute des Universités Américaines; Diploma, Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies; Diploma, Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts; M.A., University of Pennsylvania; Diploma, Museum Management Institute, University of California, Berkeley.) Former Conservation Assistant, Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, Connecticut; Research Fellow, Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons, Maryland; Curatorial Assistant, Philadelphia Maritime Museum; Project Director, Ellis Island Immigration Museum, New York City; Curator and Director of Museums, Nantucket Historical Association; trustee, Nantucket Arts Alliance; grant reviewer, Institute of Museum Services and National Endowment for the Humanities; advisor to museums on Nantucket. Paul Cuffe Fellow; research grants and awards received from various foundations. Author: Picturing Nantucket: An Art History of the Island with Paintings from the Collection of the Nantucket Historical Association; From Brant Point to the Boca Tigris: Nantucket and the China Trade; Ironclad Intruder: USS Monitor (with J. Lee Cox); articles and book reviews on maritime history and arts; regular contributor to Historic Nantucket (quarterly journal of the Nantucket Historical Association). Exhibitions; collections; long-range planning; issues in acquisitions and management; tribal art; Polynesian ethnology.

Michael Lapides. Photo Archivist, Kendall Institute.
(Diploma, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; B.A., Brown University; postgraduate study, New England School of Photography.) Art photographer, archivist, computer database manager. Exhibited: Zoe Gallery, Boston; Photokina 88, Cologne, Germany; University of Rhode Island; Brown University. Fellow, Massachusetts Arts Fellowship in Photography. Previously employed as an artwork photographer, landscape photographer, sales representative, and manager of photographic services for an architectural photography firm. Management of photographic collections; photo archives; database systems and methods.

Laura P. Pereira. Assistant Librarian.
(B.A., College of William and Mary; A.M.L.S., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Virginia Secondary Teaching Certificate; Virginia Professional Librarian Certificate.) Former librarian, reference librarian, and media specialist. Library collections and visitor services; cataloguing; library systems.

Donald E. Ridley, P.E. Assistant Curator and Supervisor of the Scrimshaw Forensics Laboratory, Kendall Institute.
(M.E., New York State Maritime Academy; B.S.M.E., Syracuse University; M.S.M.E., Northeastern University; Sloan Senior Executive Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.) Engineering consultant; former operating marine engineer and marine engineering executive (United States Lines, Gibbs & Cox, Bird-Johnson, etc.). Lead author of Frederick Myrick of Nantucket: Catalogue Raisonné; Frederick Myrick of Nantucket: Physical Characteristics of the Scrimshaw; articles on scrimshaw forensics; several publications on marine technology; and a forthcoming study of the history of steam propulsion. Professional affiliations in marine technology. Marine engineering; naval architecture; microscopy; scrimshaw forensics.

Hayato Sakurai. Cataloguer and Assistant Curator, Kendall Institute.
(B.A., M.A., Ph.D. candidate, Nagoya University [Japan]; museum certification in Japan). Fisheries and whaling historian. Former apprentice commercial fisherman, cook on a merchant vessel, and museum apprentice in Japan. L. Byrne Waterman Intern, Kendall Whaling Museum, 2000-02. Japanese maritime history, culture, philology, and policy; institutional liaison with Japan.

R. Michel Zilberstein. Assistant Curator (Photography).
(B.A., Harvard University.) Retired Engineering Laboratory Manager at the Raytheon Corporation facility in Quincy, Massachusetts. Staff photographer, coordinator of photo services, photolab manager; former photo archivist and gallery docent. Photography, photo processing, curatorial photography, photolab, media, French language translator.