| SIA Continuing Education Workshop: Remote Sensing Preliminary Paper Sessions 36 Hours in Seattle Friday Night Film Festival Seattle Snapshots: Video 2, the 1962 World's Fair and Seattle Center Seattle Snapshots: Video 1, Gas Works Park The Society for Industrial Archaeology celebrates the 40th Anniversary of its founding! The Grand Hyatt has been selected as our conference hotel |
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| SIA Continuing Education Workshop: Remote Sensing If you want to learn how to use geophysical techniques to enhance your heritage preservation studies or simply want to know more about the technologies, then the 2011 Continuing Education Workshop is just for you! This half-day workshop on Remote Sensing presented by Duane Simpson and Grant Day from AMEC Earth and Environmental will give attendees an introduction to Remote Sensing techniques, technologies and applications on industrial sites. They will discuss how the techniques work, the types of instruments used, how to integrate geophysical information into mapping, and how to use the data to more fully document industrial sites. The workshop will discuss electrical resistance, magnetometry, ground penetrating radar, and electromagnetic technologies, focusing primarily on electrical resistance and magnetometry. Workshop attendees will explore the physics behind the technologies, fundamentals of data collection, when to apply each technique, how to process the data once it has been collected, and strengths and weaknesses of the technologies. The workshop will include hands-on demonstrations of the instruments, and open discussions on how the instruments function and collect data. Duane Simpson and Grant Day from AMEC Earth & Environmental will teach this course. Mr. Simpson has been actively using geophysical techniques for archaeological applications for over 10 years. During this time he has surveyed over 100 sites including historic villages, cemeteries, distilleries, and a wide assortment of prehistoric sites. Grant Day has also been using geophysical techniques for archaeological applications for about 10 years. During this time he has used geophysical techniques to survey and excavate 16 archaeological sites that include military camps, POW camps, historic homesteads and town locations, cemeteries, and a couple prehistoric sites. Mr. Day has experience collecting geophysical data in the field and using the results to direct archaeological investigations. Registration for the Remote Sensing Workshop costs $150 per person and runs from 9:00am to 1:00pm. Following the workshop the instructors will be available to discuss the technologies and answer questions.
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| Preliminary Paper Sessions Track 1: Industrial Facilities and Landscapes Session 1A: Industry of the Pacific Northwest 8:00 – 9:30 Lloyd Tepper and Jeffery Tepper – Rise and Fall of the Tacoma Arsenic Industry Susanna Kuo and Rick Minor – The Oswego Iron Works: An 1866 Charcoal Iron Furnace near Portland, Oregon Anthony Meadow – Steel in the Northwest Sandy Carter – Stories from the Mill at the Falls – Insiders’ Memories of the Evolution of Mill Work at Crown Zellerbach International Session 1B: Water and Power 9:45 – 11:30 Carlos Del Cairo – War and Defense in Cartagena de Indias (Columbia): The Consolidation of Maritime Industrial Landscape in the 18th Century William Hoffman – Remaking History: Discoveries and Challenges in Reproducing a Worthington Steam Pump from the USS Monitor Simon Litten – Mercury Boilers for Electrical Generation and Chemical Process – A Forgotten Technology Session 1C: Rural Industry and Industrial Landscapes 1:30 – 3:00 Brenda Barrett – Conservation of Industrial Heritage on a Landscape Scale Brad Botwick – Archeology of Rural Industries in the Carolina and Georgia Sand Hills Robert Hutchison – Timber Grain Elevators and Silos of the Palouse Session 1D: Metals and Mining 3:15 – 5:00 Thomas Leary – Workplace Mapping: Interpreting Jobs through Digital Records Linkages – A Case Study in Steel at the Youngstown Historical Center Erin Timms and Matthew Kierstead – Elizabeth Mine Superfund Site, South Strattford, Vermont: Data Recovery and Monitoring Sean Gohman – “A More Favorable Combination of Circumstances Could Hardly Have Been Desired”: Documenting Michigan’s Historic Cliff Mine Session 2A: Maritime Archaeology in the Pacific Northwest 8:00 – 9:30 Todd Croteau – Maritime Heritage in the Pacific Northwest Shannon Fitgerald, Diana Hennick, and Nathaniel Howe – Preservation of Historic Ships at the Northwest Seaport Shelley Leavens and Lita Dawn Stanton – Gig Harbor Net Sheds Emmett Smith, Sam Johnson and Lucien Swerdloff - The Pacific Northwest Boat Documentation Project Session 2B: Recording Our Industrial Heritage – Challenges and Techniques 9:45 – 11:30 Christopher Marston – Western Maryland Railway: A Comprehensive Approach to HAER Documentation Jeremy Mauro – The Advantages and Limitations of Utilizing Laser Scanning for Documentation of Large Engineering Structures Richard O’Connor – Mitigating the Destruction of Industrial Resources: What the Record Shows (and Does Not Show) Session 2C: Preservation Threats and Responses 1:30 – 3:00 Duncan Hay – Get Pumped! Revitalization of Boston’s Chestnut Hill Waterworks Mary Habstritt – A Paragon of Paint: The Story of a Long Island City Manufacturer Iva Stefanovski – Protected Industrial Complexes in Zagreb, Croatia Session 2D: LEED and Industrial Heritage Preservation 3:15 – 5:00 Jay McCauley – LEED 2012 and Historic Preservation Brian Rich – Sustainability through Historic Preservation Eric C. Stovner – Seismic Evaluation and Rehabilitation Design for the Grand Canyon Powerhouse Session 3B: 22nd Annual Historic Bridge Symposium, Part I 8:00 – 9:30 Rex W. Meyer – History of the Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge: the World's First Concrete Floating Bridge Marsha Tolon – Evergreen Point Floating Bridge: Everyday Life of a Floating Bridge Michael E. Roberts – Blue Bridge Blues in British Columbia’s Capital City Craig Holstine – Unhappy Fish Demand Removal of Historic McMillin Bridge: When Competing Resources Collide Session 3C: 22nd Annual Historic Bridge Symposium, Part II 9:45 – 11:30 Jet Lowe – Alaskan Way Viaduct: An Old and New Departure Point for City Design in Seattle Sharon Wood Wortman and Ed Wortman – Developments on Historic Bridges in the Portland Area Charles E. Walker – Rehabilitation of the Washington Avenue Bridge Session 3D: 22nd Annual Historic Bridge Symposium, Part III 1:30-3:00 Todd Wilson – Pennsylvania Historic Bridge Inventory – Fifteen Year Later Jason Smith – The Attitudes of the Public Towards Places of Historic Interest: A Comparison between United States and Germany Bill Vermes – Wilbur Watson: Early 20th Century Bridge Architect Kitty Henderson and Eric N. DeLony – State of Historic Bridges – 2011 Session 3A: Architecture of Industry, Industry of Architecture 3:15-5:00 Royce M. Earnest – Hides, Buildings, and Science: Milwaukee’s Gallun Tannery at the Turn of the Century Justin M. Spivey – Early 20th-Century Concrete Construction at the Hearst Greek Theater Matthew Hayes - Glass Curtain Walls, Thin-Shell Concrete, Timber Domes and Moveable Roofs: Fifty Years of Innovative Northwest Arena Buildings |
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36 Hours in Seattle (from the New York Times, March 2011)
http://travel.nytimes.com/Check out this article from the New York Times about visiting Seattle |
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| Friday Night Film Festival Do you have interesting DVDs to share with your fellow SIA attendees? The SIA 2011 Conference in Seattle will feature a special film festival, giving SIA members the opportunity to submit DVDs to a curated presentation on Friday, June 3 at in the auditorium at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. For more information about how to submit your DVD, please contact Seattle SIA Host Committee member and film festival chair. In the meantime, here’s a sampling of historic films from the Seattle area: Denny Regrade Archival Footage See an urban hill reduced to barges full of soil dumped directly into Elliott Bay! Seattle Shipyard World War II Color Footage This rare color footage shows Seattle homefront crews busily constructing “fighting ships for fighting men!” Seattle City Light Skagit River Hydro Project 1940s Color Footage Go back in time for a tour of an early hydroelectric project in this rare documentary shot in color! The videos can be new or old, narrated or not, but less than 20 minutes. To submit a film, please contact Alicia Valentino. You will need to provide the film and a paragraph summary. Any questions? Send an email. More details to come! |
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| Seattle Snapshots: Video 2, the 1962 World's Fair and Seattle Center Preview the 2011 conference via video, and meet "Mossback" author and columnist Knute Berger for a tour of 1962 Seattle World's Fair attractions, including the Monorail, US Science Pavilion, and Space Needle. |
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Snapshots: Video 1, Gas Works Park Preview the 2011 conference via video, and meet renowned landscape architect Richard Haag for a tour his most famous creation: Seattle's award-winning Gas Works Park. |
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| The Society
for Industrial Archeology celebrates the 40th Anniversary of its
founding! As a tribute to the society's 40 years, we will be soliciting conference photos, vignettes, and other memories of conferences past to compile an homage, of sorts, to celebrate our history. Please check back often as this project comes together! |
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| The Grand
Hyatt Seattle has been selected as our conference hotel. After scouring the city, we've selected the Grand Hyatt Seattle in the heart of downtown as our conference hotel. The Hyatt has provided excellent rates and is in a perfect location to enjoy the sites and sounds of the city. Easy access to Ride-Free bus lines, light rail, and airport shuttles, within walking distance to the Pike Place Market and monorail to the Seattle Center and Space Needle, and an abundance of coffee shops, restaraunts, and theaters! |
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