| LC control no. | n 85219344 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Delgado, James P. |
| Variant(s) | Delgado, James, 1958- Delgado, James Preston, 1958- |
| Associated country | Canada United States |
| Associated place | Vancouver (B.C.) Texas Washington (D.C.) |
| Birth date | 1958-01-11 |
| Place of birth | San Jose (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Underwater archaeology |
| Affiliation | United States. National Park Service United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Vancouver Maritime Museum Simon Fraser University Institute of Nautical Archaeology (U.S.) United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| Profession or occupation | Marine archaeologists Explorers Authors Museum directors Administrative agencies--Officials and employees College teachers Historians |
| Found in | His Alcatraz Island, c1985: t.p. (James P. Delgado; park hist., Golden Gate Nat. Recreat. Area) His To California by sea, c1990: CIP t.p. (James P. Delgado) data sheet (b. 1958) Encyclopaedia of underwater and maritime archaeology, c1997: t.p. (James P. Delgado) p. 9 (Vancouver Maritime Museum, Vancouver, B.C., Canada) jkt. (exec, dir. of V.M.M; trained as archaeologist and historian; auth. of To California by sea) Lost warships, 2001: CIP t.p. (James Delgado) Adventures of a sea hunter, c2004: CIP t.p. (James Delgado) data sheet (Delgado, James Preston) The lost submarines of Pearl Harbor, 2016: ECIP title page (James P. Delgado) Wikipedia, viewed Mar. 15, 2016 (James P. Delgado, born January 11, 1958 in San Jose, California, is a maritime archaeologist, explorer and author. He graduated from San Francisco State University with a B.A. in American history, and would later teach at this and three other universities. Delgado gained a master's degree in Maritime History and Underwater Research from East Carolina University and was subsequently assigned by the National Park Service (NPS) Chief Historian Edwin C. Bearss to work as project historian on the USS Monitor project with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In 1991, he moved to Vancouver, British Columbia where he took on the role of Executive Director of the Vancouver Maritime Museum for the next fifteen years. During his museum tenure, he returned to university to undertake his Ph.D. in archaeology, receiving the distinction in 2006 from Simon Fraser University. In 2006, he moved to Texas and joined the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) as Executive Director; in 2008 was elected President and CEO of INA. In October 2010, he left INA to become the Director of Maritime Heritage in the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries for the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration in Washington, D.C. He has written over 100 articles, contributed to or edited over 33 books. He has received five prestigious book awards and spoken worldwide to hundreds of groups and organizations and is a frequent lecturer for Zegrahm Expeditions and the Archaeological Institute of America) LAC internal file, January 11, 2019 (heading: Delgado, James P; variant: Delgado, James, 1958-) |
| Equivalent(s) | Delgado, James P |
| National bib agency no. | 0067F4820E |
| Associated language | eng |
| Quality code | nlc |
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