Nick DeLong

Maritime Archaeologist

Email: nelsond@clemson.edu
Office: 843-730-5090

Education:
M.A., Maritime Archaeology, Maritime Studies Program, East Carolina University, 2015

B.A., History, Graceland University, 2011

Responsibilities:
Nick has worked on submerged archaeological projects all along the East Coast, as well as in the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico. His Master’s research focused on the artifact assemblage recovered from a War of 1812 Flotilla vessel that operated in the Chesapeake Bay. Nick has worked with a number of state and federal departments that include North Carolina’s Underwater Archaeology Branch, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology. Nick also spent two years in the private sector working as a Nautical Archaeologist for the Cultural Resource Management firm R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, Inc. His underwater archaeological experience ranges from work on nineteenth century sailing vessels in the inland waters of North Carolina, Civil War vessels in Charleston Harbor, to Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge. Nick specializes in artifact documentation, ship construction, and material culture analyses. In addition to his archaeological research, Nick has helped develop and teach a course in Underwater Archaeology at Clemson University.

Research interest:
Artifact documentation, 3D documentation and modeling, ship construction, and naval archaeology.

Publications:
DeLong, Nicholas
2018    Finding Isabel, article in Connecticut Explored, Vol. 16, No. 2. Hartford, CT.

Schmidt, James S., Kathryn A. Ryberg, R. Christopher Goodwin, Benjamin C. Wells, and Nicholas J. DeLong
2017    Geophysical/Cultural Resource Survey To Support Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company’s Offshore Raritan Bay Loop Natural Gas Pipeline Expansion New York And New Jersey State Waters; Williams Partners LP. Prepared for Williams Partners LP, by R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, Inc.

Carrier, Brandi, Nick DeLong, William Hoffman, Joseph Hoyt, and Will Sassorossie
2017    North Carolina Collaborative Archaeological Survey: Kitty Hawk Wind Energy Area. Prepared Collaboratively under BOEM and NOAA, Sterling, VA.

Nelson-DeLong, Nicholas
2015    War on the Chesapeake: Artifact Analysis of a War of 1812 Flotilla Ship. Master’s Thesis, Department of History, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.

Certifications:
Nick is an AAUS scientific diver, PADI Divemaster, TDI Technical Diver, and TDI Surface Supplied Diver.