Pockoy Island, South Carolina: A Case Study for Collaborative Shoreline Change Research to Heritage at Risk, Coastal Geology, and Community Science Monitoring

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Methods for Monitoring Heritage at Risk Sites in a Rapidly Changing Environment", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In March 2021, members of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) Archaeology, Geology, and Marine Biology teams began a collaborative shoreline monitoring project on Pockoy Island (Botany Bay Plantation Heritage Preserve, Charleston County, SC). The project objectives were to better understand the driving forces behind the landward movement of the shoreline (transgression), to apply new understanding to the rate of shoreline erosion of the island that directly impacts the Pockoy Island Shell Ring Complex (38CH2533), and to establish best practices for future, long-term community science monitoring efforts. Each team used a different shoreline monitoring methodology. Multiple aerial UAV-derived orthoimagery datasets, on-the-ground transect measurements, and Arrow Gold RTK unit measurements have been collected monthly following significant storms or King (Perigean) tide events. Moving forward, the erosion transect approach tested within this project will serve as the foundation for community science monitoring at Heritage at Risk sites in South Carolina.

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• Methods for Monitoring Heritage at Risk Sites in a Rapidly Changing Environment   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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Contact(s): Nicole Haddow