RAPID: Collaborative Research: Assessing Archaeological Storm Damage from Hurricane Ian

RAPID：合作研究：评估飓风伊恩造成的考古风暴损害

• 批准号: 2304809
• 负责人: Victor Thompson
• 金额: $ 1.17万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-12-15 至 2027-11-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2304809&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Collaborative; Research; Assessing; Archaeological

Accelerating environmental change and attendant extreme weather events such as hurricanes threaten archaeological sites, especially in coastal regions which contain some of the most vulnerable forms of cultural heritage. As such, coastal archaeological sites provide exemplary locations for (1) the rapid study of storm impacts to archaeological site stability, preservation, and resilience planning, and (2) understanding how site managers balance disaster response with post-storm public education and outreach. In response to Hurricane Ian’s landfall in southwest Florida in September 2022, this Rapid Response Research (RAPID) enhances the understanding of how hurricanes impact the management and preservation of publicly accessible coastal and island cultural heritage sites, parks, and education centers. The investigators are working directly with local site managers and stakeholders to characterize the extent of damage; document proximate causes of damage including wind, storm surge, and erosion; and assess possible further damage from restoration efforts. The project also generates site vulnerability models to inform site stabilization efforts, resilience management plans, and public education and outreach content about hurricane impacts to archaeological cultural heritage sites and local communities. The researchers are conducting a survey of storm damage inflicted by Hurricane Ian at four well-preserved and publicly accessible coastal and island Calusa archaeological cultural heritage sites in the Pine Island Sound and Estero Bay region of southwest Florida. By the sixteenth century, this region was home to the Calusa — one of the largest, most politically complex, non-agrarian societies in North America. The project area is the epicenter of Calusa archaeological research, student archaeological training, and public Indigenous cultural heritage education and preservation. Working with local site managers, cultural heritage community stakeholders, and graduate students, the investigators are documenting initial site damage using written descriptions, video, and digital imaging, conduct minimally invasive subsurface sampling of damaged archaeological contexts likely to be further disturbed by site restoration efforts, and produce site damage and vulnerability modeling to inform managerial decision making in post-storm site stabilization and preservation. Throughout this RAPID project, the investigators and local site managers will work together to create educational content about hurricane damage and archaeological cultural heritage site preservation within the context of climate change impacts and extreme weather events, including publicly accessible, mini-documentary style educational videos.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

加速的环境变化和随之而来的飓风等极端天气事件威胁着考古遗址，特别是在拥有一些最脆弱的文化遗产的沿海地区。因此，沿海考古遗址为（1）风暴影响的快速研究提供了示范地点。考古遗址的稳定性、保护和复原力规划，以及 (2) 了解遗址管理者如何平衡灾害响应与风暴后公共教育和外展活动 为了应对 2022 年 9 月伊恩飓风在佛罗里达州西南部登陆，这项快速响应研究 (RAPID) ）加强对飓风如何影响可公开访问的沿海和岛屿文化遗产地、公园和教育中心的管理和保护的了解。调查人员正在与当地遗址管理者和利益相关者直接合作，以描述损坏的程度，并记录损坏的直接原因；包括风、风暴潮和侵蚀；并评估恢复工作可能造成的损害；该项目还生成遗址脆弱性模型，为遗址稳定工作、复原力管理计划以及有关飓风对考古文化遗产和其他遗址影响的公众教育和宣传内容提供信息。研究人员正在对当地社区进行调查。飓风伊恩对位于佛罗里达州西南部松岛海峡和埃斯特罗湾地区的四个保存完好且可供公众参观的沿海和​​岛屿卡卢萨考古文化遗产造成了风暴破坏，到了 16 世纪，该地区已成为卡卢萨人的所在地——卡卢萨人之一。北美最大、政治最复杂的非农业社会是卡卢萨考古研究、学生考古培训以及与当地遗址管理者、文化遗产社区合作的中心。与利益相关者和研究生一起，调查人员正在使用书面描述、视频和数字成像记录最初的遗址损坏，对可能受到遗址恢复工作进一步干扰的受损考古环境进行微创地下采样，并生成遗址损坏和脆弱性模型为风暴后遗址稳定和保护的管理决策提供信息，在整个 RAPID 项目中，调查人员和当地遗址管理者将共同努力，在气候变化影响和极端天气的背景下，创作有关飓风破坏和考古文化遗产遗址保护的教育内容。事件，包括公开易于理解的迷你纪录片风格的教育视频。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。