Behind the Scenes of a NOAA Ocean Exploration Underwater Cultural Heritage Explorer-in-Training

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Exploration-Forward Archaeology Through Community-Driven Research", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The NOAA Ocean Exploration’s Explorer-in-Training (EiT) program provides opportunities for emerging scientists to learn valuable career-oriented skills. For summer 2023, NOAA Ocean Exploration offered its first 10-week EiT internship for underwater cultural heritage (UCH) to train next generation marine archeologists. This internship focused on enhancing archaeological data from deepwater shipwrecks involving several tasks. Archaeological annotations were made to archived remotely operated vehicle (ROV) video footage from previously explored sites using Ocean Networks Canada SeaTube V3. These annotations highlighted important site features that are searchable, increasing usability for future researchers. Recommendations were developed to improve the process for photogrammetric modeling of ROV video in order to enhance the accuracy of products made for public outreach and research. In all, this internship provided useful insight into the inner-workings of NOAA Ocean Exploration and illustrates the diverse expertise required to fulfill the agency's mission.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2024   •
• Exploration-Forward Archaeology Through Community-Driven Research

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Contact(s): Nicole Haddow