The Marine Archeology talk yesterday was fascinating. I was most interested in the technical elements of their field work. As expected, their site work is in shallow water (8m depth), so SCUBA dive time is almost unlimited. They've been working over winters on the same site on the Nile for 15 years (when it's safe to work there!), and continue to discover new artifacts buried in the clay. Their discoveries are detailed in the BBC documentary Swallowed by the Sea. Imagine what they could discover if they could dive deeper, in colder water (e.g., off the UK, where there are 30,000+ shipwrecks), and for longer amounts of time.
They are thinking to use cameras and laser scanners to 3D model artifacts. I was excited to hear this because it's the same technology I worked with at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution this summer to make 3D maps of sea ice and seabeds.
While at my desk today I'm listening to Planet Money podcast When Women Stopped Coding and the BBC documentary Swallowed by the Sea as I work through water content, porosity, and compression indices in various soil mechanics problems.
They are thinking to use cameras and laser scanners to 3D model artifacts. I was excited to hear this because it's the same technology I worked with at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution this summer to make 3D maps of sea ice and seabeds.
While at my desk today I'm listening to Planet Money podcast When Women Stopped Coding and the BBC documentary Swallowed by the Sea as I work through water content, porosity, and compression indices in various soil mechanics problems.
