Project Team

Waterlines Project Leadership:

Peter Lape works as an archaeologist, professor and museum curator at the University of Washington's Burke Museum and Department of Anthropology. His research interests include investigating the role of landscape and climate change on colonial history, conflict and trade; he has been working for the past ten years on these topics in Island Southeast Asia. In the Puget Sound area, he has developed education projects centered on archaeology, including an urban archaeological excavation in the Rainier Valley (with Donald Fels), as well as K-12 programs in the Cedar River Watershed and at West Point in Discovery Park.
Amir Sheikh is a staff member on the Puget Sound River History Project and a graduate student in the Environmental Anthropology Program at UW, with interests in urban studies & planning, environmental & spatial histories, and visual methodologies. He is interested in collaborative projects that bridge academia and the public sphere.
Donald Fels works as a researching artist. For over two decades he has been looking into and making art about the local landscape, here and much further away. As lead artist on the Alki/Duwamish Culture Trail, he conceived of and designed the Alki viewers. He organized Seattle's first urban archaeology dig in the Rainier Valley (with Peter Lape, mentioned above). With USGS geologist Brian Atwater he created the Geoslice, a sculpture along the Duwamish Waterway which interprets the extraordinary geology of the Duwamish basin.

Waterlines Collaborators:

Brian Atwater, U.S. Geological Survey geologist and a Research Professor at the University of Washington – Information about the Seattle fault and earthquake history.
Lesley Bain, architect and urban designer and a principal at Weinstein A|U Architects and Urban Designers. She has worked with neighborhoods and institutions to make Seattle a great place to live. Lesley led award-winning competition teams that brought ideas to life in Pioneer Square. Ideas from the How Green is My Alley competition brought 2010 World Cup soccer showings to Nord Alley. The Living Blue-Living Green entry for the Living Cities Challenge explored how Pioneer Square could be on the cutting edge of urban sustainability.
Burke Museum Tribal Advisory Board, with representatives from several Washington State Tribes – Native American content
Brian Collins, Research Scientist in the UW Department of Earth and Space Sciences – Historical ecology mapping and advice on geomorphology content
if/then, an award-winning Web design consultancy – Web site design, Flash programming, and Web development
Perri Lynch, Seattle-based artist and owner of VMG: Velocity Made Good. Her artwork examines the relationship between human perception and sense of place. Issues of navigation, intuition, and physical proximity are key components of these investigations. Through combined techniques in sound, light, sculpture, and image, Perri explores many attributes of a place simultaneously. Her favorite instrument is a handheld compass.
Lorraine McConaghy, Historian at the Museum of History & Industry – Historical research and images of early Seattle
Northwest Archaeological Associates (now SWCA Environmental Consultants), geoarchaeology and historic maps of downtown Seattle
RMB Vivid Inc, graphic design and cartography on forthcoming Waterlines map.
Holly Taylor, Principal of Past Forward – General project advice and the name "Waterlines"
Coll Thrush, Associate Professor of History at the University of British Columbia – Excerpts from his 2007 book, Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place
David Williams (wingate@seanet.com), Seattle-based writer and natural historian