Every year the Women Divers Hall of Fame offers graduate, undergraduate, and non-academic scholarships and training grants for diving and related disciplines (including marine biology, conservation, teaching, and underwater archaeology). This year, I am very fortunate to be the recipient of the Cecilia Connelly Memorial Graduate Scholarship in Underwater Archaeology. I am currently an M.A. student in the Maritime Studies Program at East Carolina University. My thesis site is a nineteenth century shipwreck off the Florida coast which the National Park Service excavated last summer. We were able to recover tar samples with embedded microbotannicals (which is pretty awesome), so I am planning on using the scholarship to conduct the tar analysis and species identification. – Maddie Roth ’14