Carrie Sowden is the director of archaeology and research at the National Museum of the Great Lakes in Toledo, Ohio, and served as a leader on the team that created and built the museum in 2014. Since 2004, she has worked on many shipwreck projects across Lake Erie as well as Lake Ontario and Lake Huron. Part of her focus is working with volunteers, teaching the techniques and purpose behind the study of submerged cultural history in the Great Lakes. Carrie earned a BS in chemistry from Emory University and a master’s in anthropology and nautical archaeology from Texas A&M University.