NCPTT to offer LEED Exam Preparation Workshop June 26-28, 2012

National Center for Preservation Technology and Training will host a three day LEED Exam Preparation Workshop at our office in Natchitoches, Louisiana. LEED has become an industry standard for demonstrating the “sustainability” of new construction and rehabilitation projects. While LEED is not the only rating system for buildings at this time it is the most widely [...]
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3D Digital Documentation Summit

NCPTT in conjunction with the National Park Service Intermountain Regional Office and the Presidio Trust will host a three day summit on digital documentation for the preservation of cultural heritage. The conference will be held July 10-12, 2012 at the Presidio in San Francisco, California. The program will feature two days of contributed papers and a [...]
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Call to Action – NPS Cultural Resources Programs

In preparation for its approaching 100th anniversary in 2016, the National Park Service (NPS) has published A Call to Action: Preparing for a Second Century of Stewardship and Engagement to help chart a path for our second hundred years.
As we look to establish priorities and focus our efforts on areas likely to have the most impact, we invite your suggestions and comments.
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Preservation Maintenance of Turf Using Resource Sensitive Techniques (2011-03)

Historic sites reflect a particular time period and cultural use. These landscapes are composed of historic features such as buildings, trees, fencing, and walkways that date to an historic period. Understanding and implementing appropriate maintenance practices to preserve a site’s historic character and its individual features are essential components of a maintenance worker’s job. This video addresses turf management techniques designed to preserve these sites.
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Prospection in Depth 2008: September 16-20, 2008, San Francisco

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Geophysical techniques like radar, magnetometry, conductivity, and resistivity are fast becoming essential archeological skills.

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Archeology: Prospection in Depth 2008

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The Presidio Trust and NCPTT have agreed to jointly promote NCPTT’s “Prospection in Depth 2008,” a workshop that focuses on cutting-edge applications of geographic information systems and geophysical technologies for identifying archeological sites and site features.

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Kennedy, McCarthy, Ferrell Present ‘Emerging Survey Tools’ at NTHP Conference

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Andy Ferrell of NCPTT, Deidre McCarthy of NPS Cultural Resources GIS and Barrett Kennedy of the LSU School of Architecture presented “Emerging Survey Tools: Not the Same Old Cultural Resource Survey” at the 2007 National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference.

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Louisiana Archeology Week

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On October 4, NCPTT hosted one of the statewide activities celebrating Louisiana Archaeology Week.

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Prospection in Depth 2007

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NCPTT hosted Prospection in Depth, a GPS, GIS, and Geophysical technologies workshop held June 18-23, 2007.

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June 2007 NCPTT Archeology Workshops in GIS GPS and Ground Truthing in Natchitoches, Louisiana

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NCPTT will present two workshops in June featuring high-level technology in the archeology field.

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Prospection in Depth 2006

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In June 2006 the NCPTT hosted “Prospection in Depth,” a Summer Institute training program in GIS, GPS, and remote sensing aimed at archaeology professionals and students around the country. Four instructors and 10 participants used the St. Anne and Whittington sites as learning laboratories. This group of 14 collected GPS and remote sensing data, analyzed them through a GIS platform, and then worked in concert with a mature archaeological project to ground-truth their hypotheses within an existing research framework.

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Preservation in Your Community

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On Aug. 3, NCPTT hosted “Preservation in Your Community,” a public event held annually to showcase preservation research and activities being undertaken by local National Park Service organizations.

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Prospection in Depth 2006

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From June 6-23, 2006, NCPTT partnered with the NPS Midwest Archeology Center, the NPS Cultural Resources GIS laboratory, the University of Mississippi, and Northwestern State University of Louisiana to hold its first training program on non-destructive archeological prospection techniques. This intensive workshop is unique in that it uses data from an ongoing, mature grant-funded research [...]

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