SRI Foundation

DOCUMENT Full-Text Eric Ingbar. Lynne Sebastian. Jeffrey Altschul. Mary Hopkins. William Eckerle. Peggy Robinson. Judson Finley. Stephen Hall. William E. Hayden. chris rohe. Tim Seaman. Sasha Taddie. Scott Thompson.

In 2002, Gnomon, Inc., entered into a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) for a project entitled, Adaptive Management and Planning Models for Cultural Resources in Oil and Gas Fields in New Mexico and Wyoming (DE-FC26-02NT15445). This project, funded through DOE’s Preferred Upstream Management Practices grant program, examined cultural resource management practices in two major oil- and gas-producing areas, southeastern New...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Carol Ellick.

Four educational lessons move from the present to the past and from Mexico City to Santa Fe. Travel through time on highways, back roads, and trails. Discover what was bought, sold, and traded. Learn how a time of exploration shaped our lives today. The lessons present the history of travel and trade on El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the 1,550-mile road that linked Mexico City to Santa Fe during Spanish colonial and later times. The lessons have been designed to be used in both New...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Eric DeLony. Terry Klein.

In the spirit of stewardship, streamlining, and sound environmental and historic bridge management, the goal of the workshop, held in Washington, D.C. December 3-4, 2003 and funded by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), was to provide federal and state transportation agencies, Congress, and the interested public with recommendations and solutions on how to preserve this heritage at risk. Specifically, the purpose of the workshop was to articulate and define efficient and economical...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David Cushman. Lynne Sebastian.

This workshop focused on more effective use of predictive modeling on military installations. The workshop participants produced a broad set of suggestions about ways that archaeological predictive modeling could be improved as a tool for cultural resource management on military installations and be more effectively integrated into installation management, stewardship, and compliance practices. In this pilot project we have worked with Eglin Air Force Base (AFB) in Florida and Fort Drum in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Lynne Sebastian. Kurt Heidelberg.

This project reported here had the objective of answering four specific questions: • Do predictive models that have been created for military installations work? • Can they be refined to work better? • Are they sufficiently accurate so that land managers and State Historic Preservation officers can use them in evaluating management decisions about installation resources? • Can a predictive model be integrated into a more dynamic operational model that would be useful across the DoD to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Terry Klein. Lynne Sebastian.

The focus of this Santa Fe conference was to develop effective strategies that streamline the historic preservation review process mandated by Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. The conference participants shared information on current practices and technologies and, more importantly, made recommendations on how to reach a common objective. The objective was to develop effective strategies to enhance and streamline the historic preservation review process mandated by Section...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Terry Klein. Lynne Sebastian.

The SRI Foundation and Statistical Research, Inc., under a Legacy Resource Management Program grant, convened a workshop of national experts to examine the use of predictive modeling by military installations. The workshop was held in Santa Fe, New Mexico on November 15-16, 2004. Workshop attendees included participants with a variety of expertise in modeling, managing cultural resources on military installations, and compliance with environmental and historic preservation laws. Workshop...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Martyn Tagg. Marlesa Gray. Teresita Majewski. Scott Thompson. Terry Klein.

The SRI Foundation and Statistical Research, Inc., with Legacy Resource Management Program funding, convened a workshop of national experts to develop strategies for more efficient and consistent management of Air Force Cold War–era resources. The workshop was held in Tucson, Arizona on 7–9 February 2006. Workshop attendees included Department of Defense (DoD) and private-sector participants with a variety of expertise in the Cold War arena. Building inventories and evaluations have been and...