Purpose and Goals

Call for Native American Student Interns

Spend two days aboard the NOAA research vessel Shearwater to assist in conducting geo-physical surveys to map the seafloor surrounding California's Channel Islands

Data Analysis & model refinement

January 2018 - March 2021

Archaeological and Biological Assessment of Submerged Landforms

Off the Pacific Coast of North America

Internships

Geophysical field surveys and coring (CA)

April 2016 - June 2019

Timeline

An Integrative Approach

Synthesize existing geological and geophysical data sets from offshore southern California and central Oregon.
Develop and field test a new geospatial model that will aid in identification and classification of potential submerged landforms...

Terrestrial & Geophysical Field Surveys (CA)

September 2015 - September 2017

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Goals

Off the Pacific Coast of North America, rising postglacial sea levels have submerged a vast paleolandscape that almost certainly contains inundated terrestrial archaeological resources...