Session: Medicine At Sea-Appropriate Technology for Wilderness and Marine Medicine

As the ASTA/STI joint conference approaches, we will be posting information about speakers and sessions over the next few weeks leading up to the event. More information about hotel accomodations and registration can be found here.

Peter Neill to Give the Keynote Address at the 2008 International Sail Training and Tall Ships Conference

Peter Neill

Peter Neill is Director of the World Ocean Observatory, a project founded in 2004 as a recommendation of the 1998 Independent World Commission on the Future of the Oceans. He has served 20 years (1985-2005) as President of the South Street Seaport Museum, New York; as past Director of Schooner, Inc., an environmental education organization for Long Island Sound (1979-1984); as past Director of the Connecticut Marine Science Consortium (1982-1984); and as past Director for Maritime Preservation for the National Trust for Historic Preservation (1984-1985).  Mr. Neill is the current Executive Director of the Ocean Classroom Foundation which owns and operates three sail training schooners: HARVEY GAMAGE, SPIRIT OF MASSACHUSETTS and WESTWARD.  He is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Iowa.

Peter is past President of the Council of American Maritime Museums and of the International Congress of Maritime Museums. He is a co-founder of The Sound School, New Haven, CT., and The Harbor School, New York, NY., two innovative public high schools that use maritime history and environment as a context for teaching and learning. He has appeared on numerous television documentaries on PBS, A&E, Discovery and National Geographic Society productions. His publications include three novels, several non-fiction books and anthologies, and numerous articles on maritime subjects.