Global Offshore Wind: Consideration of Cumulative Effects for Archaeological Resources on the Outer Continental Shelf

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Attention this is a Submergency: Incorporating Global Submerged Records", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Offshore wind developments globally, have increased dramatically as the EU and the US aim for 2050 carbon neutrality. The US has signed EOs calling for a "new American infrastructure and clean energy economy" and for 30 gigawatts of Offshore Wind by 2030. These developments are beholden to federal regulations requiring the assessment of effects on historic properties including TCPs, shipwrecks and downed aircraft, and ancient, submerged landforms defining the paleolandscape. As Projects are densely populating the OCS, archaeological studies are focused within the Project’s APE and are constrained in their ability to provide a larger study focus; one that allows for large scale modeling of the ancient landscape, once subaerial and significant to many. This paper is intended to increase the dialogue of the effects on these submerged and offer considerations for cumulative studies and modeling to develop a broader understanding and image of the archaeological past on the OCS.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Attention this is a Submergency: Incorporating Global Submerged Records   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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