Bio
Patrick Morrison (he/him) is a Maritime Archaeologist in Western Australia, working as an Assistant Curator at the WA Museum. He is a specialist in underwater archaeological recording. He has recently recorded two significant shipwrecks with the WA Museum (Trial 1622 and Zeewijk 1727) using innovative 3D photogrammetric techniques. He is a qualified Commercial and Technical Diver (ADAS P1, TDI ANDP).
He has discovered the oldest shipwreck in the Swan River, co-authored the first discovery of submerged Aboriginal artefacts underwater on the Australian continental shelf, and coordinates the Maritime and Historical Archaeology unit at UWA. He is currently completing his PhD, researching how people responded to changing climate and rising seas over the last 10,000 years in Murujuga, Northwest Australia.
Links
View my blog, publications, dive log and download my CV (pdf).
Read my weekly writing, and see my photography portfolio.
See my UWA Research Profile.
Contact me at: patrick.morrison@museum.wa.gov.au
Twitter: @padmorrison, Instagram: @pad_morrison, Sketchfab: patrickmorrison, Github: patrick-morrison, LinkedIn: Patrick Morrison, ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0920-3405, Google Scholar: Patrick Morrison
Work
2024 - present | Assistant Curator of Maritime Heritage | Western Australian Museum
2022 - present | Coordinator and Tutor - ARCY3012 Historical and Maritime Archaeology | University of Western Australia
2021 - present | I do a small amount of consulting. I’m limited in the amount of work I can do, but always open to interesting and challenging projects.
2020 - 2021 | Assistant Curator | Western Australian Museum
2019 | Research Assistant | University of Western Australia
2019 | Summer Intern | Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
Education
2021 - present | PhD Student | The University of Western Australia
2020 | GradCert Biostatistics | The University of Queensland
2019 | BA (First Class Hons) Archaeology | The University of Western Australia
2016-2018 | BSc Neuroscience and Archaeology | The University of Western Australia