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I am David Morgan.
I am the Chief of Archeology
and Collections here at the
National Park Service
National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
I am excited about some
upcoming training that we have
scheduled for August 4-8 (2009)
that we're hosting in partnership
with the Presidio Trust out in
San Francisco. This is going to
be our annual geophysics workshop course
that we call Prospection in Depth.
It is a really unique course for
professionals in archeology because it
focuses not just on hands on data collection
but to a large degree on interpretation
as well as making the archeological corletts
correspond well with what we see in terms
with remotely sense data.
A lot of time you go to professional
workshops or even university workshops
on geophysics and you collect data and
you work with the machines and you try
to interpret the anomalies that you get,
but the instruction ends there.
So what we've done is we have partnered
with the Presidio Trust as part of their
ongoing archeological resources management
plan to come in and inform that plan
before they actually begin work.
So our participants create data that directly
informs what the Presidio Trust in
partnership with Sonoma State University
of California will be doing for CRL.
As a consequence we get to see during
the four or five days that we are out
in the Presidio we actually get to see
what it is that some of our remotely
sense data match up with in the ground.
So that for me is the most intriguing part
of the course because the participants
then get to sit down with the instructors
to find out why what the exhibition data
produced either match or don't match with
what their expectations were from the
geophysical equipment.
So you get real learning opportunity
and you also get to tap into all of
the expertise of the participants who
are usually in academics or coming out
of the cultural resource management field.
So they have something to contribute.
This coming Monday July 6 is the cutoff date
for the registration for the course.
There is limited seating still available.
The course is going to run $499 for tuition
to cover for five days out in San Francisco.
One of the nice things is that housing
is provided.
Which is a huge expense for most people.
It will be in a historic barracks facility
located right there in the heart of the Presidio
with a view out on to the bay of the
Golden Gate Bridge.
So it really can't be beat
so come on out and join us!