Martin Gibbs is Professor of Australian Archaeology at the University of New England (Armidale, Australia), specialising in Australasian-Pacific historical and maritime archaeologies.  His convict research commenced more than 30 years ago in Western Australia and has since included NSW, Tasmania, Norfolk Island and Qld. He is Director of the ‘Landscapes of Production and Punishment’ project exploring the industrial aspects of the convict system as it operated in the Australian colonies. Other major projects include ‘The Archaeology of Shore-Based Whaling in Western Australia ‘, ‘Beyond the New World: Spanish colonisation and Indigenous Contact in the Solomon Islands 1568-1595’, and the ‘Australian River Heritage Project’ (with Dr Brad Duncan), with a variety of other projects on WWII sites, early mining and settlement, as well as maritime industry, infrastructure and social systems.