thank you. >> hi, i'm lisa stansbury. we have a limited amount of time. so i will be skipping past some of the slides. i do want to begin by telling you that my instructions at the beginning of this project were to find any families who were already well-researched and did not delve into those, focus on the people who we do not know anything about or have limited knowledge of. and so norman atwater, robin wollenhans, jacob nicholas and wells wince who worked under the alias john stocking, who is said to have cut the tow line and saved the members of the crew who could be saved so that "the rhode island" could come back to rescue were all well-researched in their family. i was able to determine that as the internet rumor said, wells wince did indeed name his alias after a reverend who lived close to his family. and there will be more information on those families on the noaa website. william allen, william eagan and thomas joyce did not have satisfactory documentation at national archives. i also looked at library of congress and the daughters of the ameri

dave alberg has something really important to say and he's brought lisa stansbury with him to help him out. i think some of you may have met a couple of new faces here at the marinerss museum. they're up in the lobby. that's who dave alberg is here to talk about. i've known dave for i'm not sure how many years now a lot. and he has been such an incredible partner to this institution running the monitor national marine sanctuary. their office is located 240 feet down. it's hard to go there to the visitors center. it's my extreme pleasure to bring david alberg up here to the stage. [ applause ] >> it worked. that's always a first test right there. good afternoon, everybody. thank you for coming out. we are here today to talk about the work noaa has been involved with in the last, gosh -- since 2002, really, to identify the two sailors who were recovered in the turrid of the "uss monitor." those two men's faces are on display in the front lobby of the museum. they are on temporary display in the front lobby as we prepare a permanent display for them here. i can't think of a more fitting h