Climate Change

This is a pre-recorded webinar featuring moderator Steve Pine with presenters Dan Riley, Jason Church, and Melody Gayeski. All materials used by our presenters will be available for download. Steve Pine is Senior Conservator of Decorative Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. He has assisted in recovery assessments and cleanup of public and private ...

NCPTT has released updated Building and Site Condition Assessment forms and a database for use in documenting the devastating effects of natural disasters on historic properties. FEMA’s Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation Program are already putting these tools to good use to document effects of the April tornado outbreaks throughout Alabama.

Community, Culture, Conservation, Coast About The Mississippi River Delta has hundreds of archeological sites that cover thousands of years of human occupation. Archeological sites are rapidly disappearing due to the effects of climate change such as sea level rise, as well as storm surge, and modern development. Levees and floodgates provide flood control and aid in navigation. ...

Notice of 2020 Funding Opportunity The Preservation Technology and Training (PTT) Grants program provides funding for innovative research that develops new technologies or adapts existing technologies to preserve cultural resources. Grant recipients undertake innovative research and produce technical reports which respond to national needs in the field of historic preservation. Since the inception of the grants program ...

Hello! My name is Silvia Lob, I am an intern at the NCPTT, and I am working on a project to evaluate commercially available products marketed to prevent efflorescence on masonry. I have a masters degree in physical chemistry from the University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris, and I have always had an interest ...

Assessing Climate Vulnerability in Cultural Landscapes of the Pacific Northwest This presentation is part of A Century of Design in the Parks: Preserving the Built Environment in National and State Parks, June 21-23, 2016, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Abstract and Presenter’s Bio Robert Melnick: …and I wanna also offer my extreme thanks to Kirk, Mary, and Debbie, and ...

The study of climate change impacts on cultural landscapes in the Pacific West Region (PWR), National Park Service (NPS), was conducted by the Cultural Landscape Research Group (CLRG)+, a unit of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Oregon (UO), in collaboration with the National Park Service. Working with climate scientists, archeologists, ecologists, ...

The following case study is part of a forthcoming NPS handbook on climate change entitled ”Climate Change and Cultural Resources: Impact Assessments and Case Studies.”  The original author is Caitlin Smith. Constructed on a spit of land off the southern tip of Florida, historic Fort Jefferson is the central cultural fea­ture of Dry Tortugas National Park. Of­ten ...

El Malpais National Monument was established for resources associated with ancient lava flows in west-central New Mexico.  Artifacts of Zuni and Acoma nations dating from AD 800s to 1200s are located at El Malpais, including a Chaco-style great house, a great kiva, smaller pueblos, field houses, prehistoric reservoirs, and petrogylphs.  A number of archaeological sites ...

El Morro National Monument in New Mexico is the home of archaeological sites and inscriptions ranging in date from the 13th to 19th c., and a dramatic landscape characterized by Zuni Sandstone cliffs that rise 200 feet from the valley floor.   Use of the site began in the late 1200s when ancestors of Zuni Indians moved onto the outcropping, ...

Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site contains the historic home, studios and gardens of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, a preeminent sculptor of the Gilded Era and primary member of the Cornish Art Colony.  The site’s main house was built circa 1800, and purchased by Charles C. Beamon in 1884. Beamon was an art patron who initiated the Cornish Art ...

In April of 2013, the National Park Service Park Cultural Landscapes Program  gave a presentation which articulated the NPS Climate Change Response Strategy (CCRS) for Cultural Landscapes.  Following the CCRS, the cultural landscape response is divided into four strategies: science, mitigation, adaptation, and communication. Science Cultural Landscape managers are called to “use the best available scientific data and ...

The following case study is part of a forthcoming NPS handbook on climate change entitled “Climate Change and Cultural Resources: Impact Assessments and Case Studies.”  The original author is Caitlin Smith. In the far corner of northwestern Alaska, Cape Krusenstern National Monu­ment stands testament to some of the oldest evidence of human occupation of the North American ...

The following case study is part of a forthcoming NPS handbook on climate change entitled “Climate Change and Cultural Resources: Impact Assessments and Case Studies.”  The original author is Caitlin Smith. Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve contains a wealth of natural and cultural resources, including significant groupings of Athabascan prehistoric and historic archeological sites. They include ...

The following case study is part of a forthcoming NPS handbook on climate change entitled “Climate Change and Cultural Resources: Impact Assessments and Case Studies.”  The original author is Caitlin Smith. Kaloko-Honok?hau National His­torical Park lies along the rugged western coastline of the Big Island of Hawai’i. Although the landscape is un­inhabited today, the park commemorates the ...

The following case study is part of a forthcoming NPS handbook on climate change entitled “Climate Change and Cultural Resources: Impact Assessments and Case Studies.”  The original author is Caitlin Smith. Amidst the urban environment of San Francisco, Golden Gate National Recreation Area embodies a rich and di­verse cultural landscape chronicling over 200 years of American history. ...

The following case study is part of a forthcoming NPS handbook on climate change entitled “Climate Change and Cultural Resources: Impact Assessments and Case Studies.”  The original author is Caitlin Smith. In the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico, Bandelier National Monument stands as one of the rich­est collections of cultural history in the American Southwest. Bandelier’s ...

The following case study is part of a forthcoming NPS handbook on climate change entitled “Climate Change and Cultural Resources: Impact Assessments and Case Studies.”  The original author is Caitlin Smith. With its lush valley meadows and craggy snow capped peaks, Rocky Mountain National Park is best known for its remarkable scenic beauty and mountain recreation. However, ...

The following case study is part of a forthcoming NPS handbook on climate change entitled ”Climate Change and Cultural Resources: Impact Assessments and Case Studies.”  The original author is Caitlin Smith. At Knife River Indian Villages Na­tional Historic Site, the relationship between natural and cultural resources is fluid. As such, the effects of climate change on the ...

The following case study is part of a forthcoming NPS handbook on climate change entitled “Climate Change and Cultural Resources: Impact Assessments and Case Studies.”  The original author is Caitlin Smith. Apostle Islands National Lakeshore is composed of a 21-island archipelago and a portion of Wiscon­sin’s Bayfield Peninsula extending out into Lake Superior. The Islands are a ...

The following case study is part of a forthcoming NPS handbook on climate change entitled “Climate Change and Cultural Resources: Impact Assessments and Case Studies.”  The original author is Caitlin Smith. Battlefields represent an important in­terface between nature and culture in cultural landscapes. At Gettysburg National Military Park, preserving his­toric landscape features associated with historic events is ...

The following case study is part of a forthcoming NPS handbook on climate change entitled “Climate Change and Cultural Resources: Impact Assessments and Case Studies.”  The original author is Caitlin Smith. Assateague Island National Seashore represents one of the most vul­nerable sites for cultural resources on the Atlantic Coast. As a barrier island measuring only 46 feet ...

Climate Change and Your Home is a customizable web tool created by English Heritage that provides information on climate change, sustainability, and the UK’s government legislation on saving energy. While much of the site’s information is applicable to any historic home in England, it is also customizable for “traditionally built homes”: homes built with solid wall or ...

Scotland’s Coastal Heritage at Risk Project (SCHARP) is a three year venture created by Scottish Coastal Archaeology and the Problem of Erosion (SCAPE) to monitor impacts from coastal erosion in Scotland.  As threats of sea level rise and high storm intensity increase, SCAPE strives to document coastal archaeology while it still exists. SCHARP relies on public ...

In 2008 and 2011, the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) held panel discussions on climate change, sustainability, and cultural heritage.  Both panels present information on how cultural resource managers can help slow climate change, adapt resources to changing environments, and be a part of sustainable communities. Climate Change and Preserving Cultural Heritage in the 21st Century The first panel considers ...

The final product of the research project Noah’s Ark: Global Climate Change Impact on Built Heritage and Cultural Landscapes has recently been published. Noah’s Ark, funded by the European Commission, is the premier effort to integrate cultural resource management with climate science research. Participants include experts in climate modeling, atmospheric chemistry, atmospheric physics, materials science, conservation, ...

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