National Park Service
Cultural Resources Specialist - Dry Tortugas NP
Featured Deliverables
High Dynamic Range Baseline Visual Index for Material Performance
Project Manager, concept development, substantial content contribution. Contractor - Manassas Consulting Inc.
HABS Documentation, Laser Scanning, Virtual Tour
Project Manager on-site, content contributor. Partners - NPS Heritage Documentation Program, HTR Foundation.
History of Fort Jefferson - Animated Video
Project coordinator, subject matter expert, content contributor. Partners - NPS Cultural Resources Academy, HTR Foundation.
Overview
In this position I actively managed the land based historic structures, cultural landscape, and other cultural resources on a day-to-day basis by monitoring conditions, providing technical input, identifying and documenting resources, immediate and long-range project planning, estimating, and management, producing documents, developing public education and outreach materials, and serving as the primary preservation project manager. A self-directed position that provided total accountability for cultural resources management at this challenging location.
Project Work
- Preservation, Stabilization, and Monitoring of Fort Jefferson (2007-2018)
- Restoration of Tortugas Harbor Light (2014-2023)
- HTR Foundation Grant to Document Civil War Era Structures (2015-2018)
- Stabilization and Restoration of the Loggerhead Lighthouse Roof and Lantern Room (2010)
- Restore Doors and Shutters on the Tortugas (Garden Key) Harbor Light (2009)
- Buoy Installation at Dry Tortugas (2008-2009)
- Engineering Officers’ Quarters Preservation Plan and Project Implementation
- Documentation-scanning, modeling, baseline inventory & monitoring
- Public Outreach-videos, virtual tours, lectures
Media
Stabilization of Fort Jefferson Video - May 2011
Substantial content contribution, on camera educator, contracting officer's respresentative.
50 for 50: Preserving Dry Tortugas NP - August 2016
Professional profile for NHPA 50 Anniversary.
Preservation Magazine: Sea Change - Climate Change and Coastal National Parks - Summer 2016
Subject Matter Expert.
College of Charleston Magazine: Alumni Profile - Fall 2011
National Parks Traveler - October 2020
Structure Magazine: Rebuilding the Walls of Fort Jefferson - May 2013
Contracting Officer's Representative, Project POC.
Point of Being (POB) Magazine: Preserving a National Treasure - February 2010
Skyglow Project: Tortugas Rock - Night Sky Timelapse Video - 2016
Project Coordinator.
Creator - Skyglow Project; Harun Mehmedinovic.
National Parks Magazine: The Meaning of a Chug - Summer 2018
Content contributor. National Parks Conservation Association. Author-Karuna Eberl