The University of New Mexico and SRI Foundation
Summer Institute in Cultural Resource Management
June 7 to August 7, 2010

The SRI Foundation, in partnership with the University of New Mexico, will offer an eight-week Summer Institute in Cultural Resource Management. The Summer Institute includes a two-week classroom component and a six-week internship component. The purpose of Summer Institute is to prepare graduate and upper-division undergraduate students for careers in cultural resource management. The Summer Institute is unlike any program offered elsewhere in the United States.

The classroom component of the Summer Institute provides an intensive introduction to the knowledge base, skills, and abilities needed for a career path in cultural resource management (CRM). The internship component provides the student with carefully structured and supervised real-world work experience in a federal, state, local, or tribal government CRM program or a private sector CRM consulting firm. The internship will give the student an opportunity to apply recently acquired knowledge and skills to real-world situations. The internship will provide not only work experience related to the CRM profession but also contacts and supervisor recommendations for future employment.

Institute instructors are nationally recognized individuals with experience in both the private sector and government agencies, providing a real-world perspective.

For more information on the Summer Institute in Cultural Resource Management and to send in an application, go to Educational Opportunities & Resources

Effective Practices for Considering Historic Preservation in Transportation Planning and Early Project Delivery. NCHRP Project 25-25, Task 49

By Terry Klein, David Cushman, Danny Kwan, and Elizabeth Stepp. August 2009
 
http://www.trb.org/TRBNet/ProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=2374

 

Historic Bridges Community of Practice, Center for Environmental Excellence, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.

The Center for Environmental Excellence by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal Transit Administration, and the Historic Bridge Alliance, has established a web-based Historic Bridges Community of Practice (CoP). The CoP’s purpose is to provide an on-line forum for invited participants to identify and discuss emerging issues associated with the identification, evaluation, and management of our nation’s historic bridges.

http://environment.transportation.org/cop/groups/historic_bridges/default.aspx

Diane Douglas will be joining the SRI Foundation as the Director of Cultural Heritage and Climate Research. In this new position within the Foundation, she will conduct research on and identify best practices that address the impacts of climate change on cultural heritage resources, nationally and internationally. One of her primary responsibilities will be training and providing  guidance to cultural heritage resource managers on how to identify and mitigate impacts of climate change on tangible and intangible heritage resources. Diane is a recognized expert in the field of climate change.

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Lynne Sebastian, Director of Historic Preservation Programs, received the 2009 Charles R. McGimsey – Hester A. Davis Distinguished Service Award from the Registry of Professional Archaeologists. The award “for a career dedicated to professionalism in public archaeology” was presented during the 74th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Atlanta, Georgia in April 2009.

 

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Carla R. Van West, Director of Preservation Research, is one of 15 nationally recognized scholars chosen to participate in an advanced seminar at the Amerind Foundation, Dragoon, Arizona in the autumn of 2009.  The seminar, Native and Imperial Morphogenesis: Comparing 16th Century Entradas in the American Southwest and Southwest, will result in a peer-reviewed book published by the University of Arizona for the Amerind Foundation as part of a new series entitled, Amerind Studies in Archaeology.

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Terry H. Klein, Executive Director of the SRI Foundation, was appointed to the Board of Directors for the Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN) in May 2008.   FPAN is a state-funded public outreach program that promotes Florida archaeology. FPAN assists local governments and other organizations with archaeological/heritage education and tourism, and supports efforts to preserve and protect the state’s archaeological resources. Information on the Florida Public Archaeology Network can be found at www.flpublicarchaeology.org.

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