Professional biography
Dr. Dolores –Loli- Elkin is an Argentinean archaeologist and diver, Principal Researcher with the country´s National Research Council (CONICET). In 1996 she created the first Underwater Archaeology Program in the country, based at the National Institute of Anthropology (Ministry of Culture). Since then Dolores has been in charge of several research projects, most of them involving shipwrecks from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Her work experience is reflected in over a hundred academic publications plus an extensive production aimed at the general public. She is Professor of the Seminar on Maritime and Coastal Archaeology at the University of Buenos Aires, and she has also trained people from many Latin American countries in the frame of UNESCO, institution for which she is part of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Body of the 2001 Convention. Her work has been supported by prestigious Argentinean and international organizations, and she is a National Geographic Explorer.