Project Description: The goals of this project are to educate future practitioners (university students) in methods and practices of cultural landscape preservation, and to provide technical landscape preservation support to NPS parks in the Northeast Region.
This project will allow students to engage in actual preservation planning projects through internships, field schools; and/or research assistantships. This task agreement will allow the Recipient to make its research and professional landscape preservation expertise accessible to parks units in the NPS Northeast Region to meet ongoing historic preservation and environmental regulations, enhance interpretation, and address landscape treatment and maintenance. It will also allow NPS to benefit from the broader academic and technical expertise at State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in the areas of landscape preservation and history, digital modeling, natural systems, and conservation design.
Lead Principal Investigator: John Auwaerter, SUNY, College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Co-Principal Investigator: Prof. Aidan Ackerman, SUNY, College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Partner Institution: SUNY, College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Federal Agency: National Park Service
Federal Agency Technical Contact: Robert Page
Federal Involvement: NPS Olmsted Center Director Bob Page worked with ESF on project management, work planning, and student advising.
Project Type: Technical Assistance
Project Discipline: Cultural Resources
Project Sub-Discipline(s): Cultural and Historic, Engineering, Design, & Sustainability
Start Year: 2019
End Year: 2021
Initial Funding Amount: $97,575.00
Federal Grant Number: P19AC00944
Amendments
- Amendment Number: 1, Year: 2022, Amount: $-69.40
Location: NPS Northeast Region Parks
Student and Other Involvement:
- Masters Students: 2
- Staff: 1
Summary of Student Involvement: This project supported Master of Landscape Architecture students Mary Martin and Ashley Crespo in their digital modeling work at Eisenhower National Historic Site and Flight 93 National Memorial through the ESF Digital Model Lab headed by Prof. Aidan Ackerman.
Summary of Other Involvement: James Mealey assisted with refining draft research projects at Flight 93 and Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park.
PI John Auwaerter provided technical landscape preservation assistance and Section 106 advising to Roosevelt-Vanderbilt Natioanl Historic Sites, Women’s Rights National Historical Park, and Harriet Tubman National Historical Park; and taught an upper-level course in historic preservation and cultural landscapes (cost-shared with ESF)as part of the task agreement scope to train future landscape preservation practioners.
Prof. Aidan Ackerman refined student digital modeling work at Flight 93, Eisenhower, and Statue of Liberty.
Products Associated with this Project:
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