A Case Study in Collaborative Research: ECU’s 2019 Marshall Islands Field School

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "East Carolina University Partnerships and Innovation with Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The 2019 ECU Program in Maritime Studies Fall Field School was a collaborative research project with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) on sites located at Kwajalein Atoll. The primary focus of the project was the investigation of an archaeological site of interest to DPAA, with additional research conducted on the remains of a possible Landing Craft, Mechanized, Mk VIII (LCM-8) and other submerged sites. Objectives for the field school included site and feature documentation via traditional mapping and photogrammetric recording methods. The goal of the investigation was to obtain enough field documentation and historical data to correlate the LCM with a specific modification of the vessel type, hopefully leading to an identification of the remains. This paper discusses the findings of the field school in relation to the overall project as a productive outcome of the ongoing ECU/DPAA partnership.

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