Day 15: Productivity at it’s Best!

Dr. Wechsler and Dr. Lipo joined Team Archaeology for a team meeting at the house this morning.  We spoke about all of our research interests and what questions we can answer for the remaining duration of the REU.  My project is going to focus on what we can learn about Kauai’s landscape from past and present technologies.  Merging remotely sensed data from the field with historical maps will hopefully provide the NTBG and other archaeologists with a resource for future research and restoration projects.  I feel like I have a better understanding of my research project after meeting with my team, and how I can best contribute to research in Kauai.

Our team was the only group that went into the field today, so I felt like we got a lot of work done.  We took some data points at an ancient agricultural field and watched as Chuck and Dave flew the kite and plane over the fields.  We left the fields and traveled back to a heiau that we visited last week.  Sam and I placed a few targets scattered around the heiau so that georeferening would be easy and accurate.  The plane and kite flew above the heiau in addition to the agricultural fields we went to earlier.

The archaeology team was the first team to arrive home, so we cleaned the entire house and started dinner.  Our dinner was excellent and we had time to write our group blog which can be found on our wiki page!  I’m excited to travel to the library tomorrow with Sam to retrieve some literature and historical maps for our projects!