SCIENCE FOR STEWARDSHIP: MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH ON USS ARIZONA
The USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is a National Historical Landmark administered cooperatively by the National Park Service and the U.S. Navy. This paper describes a project by the National Park Service's Submerged Resources Center and USS Arizona Memorial to conduct and coordinate research directed at understanding the nature and rate of natural processes affecting the deterioration of the USS Arizona. The USS Arizona Preservation Project is designed to be multi-year, interdisciplinary and cumulative, with each element contributing to developing an overall management strategy designed to minimize environmental hazard from fuel oil release and provide the basic research required to make informed management decisions for long-term preservation. The primary project focus is toward acquiring requisite data for understanding the complex corrosion and deterioration processes affecting Arizona's hull, both internally and externally, and modeling and predicting the nature and rate of structural changes. This research program is designed to be a cumulative progression of multi-disciplinary investigative steps. Multiple lines of evidence are being pursued simultaneously, each directly or indirectly linked to the others and to the overall project objectives. The USS Arizona Preservation Project is designed to serve as a model because it will have direct application to preservation and management of historical iron and steel vessels worldwide and to intervention actions for other leaking vessels. This project can also serve as an example of government agencies, academic institutions, military commands and private institutions working together effectively for public benefit.
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Corporate Authors:
Marine Technology Society
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Authors:
- Russell, M A
- Murphy, L E
- Johnson, D L
- Foecke, T J
- Morris, P J
- Mitchell, R
- Publication Date: 2004
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Figures; Photos; References;
- Pagination: p. 54-63
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Serial:
- Marine Technology Society Journal
- Volume: 38
- Issue Number: 3
- Publisher: Marine Technology Society
- ISSN: 0025-3324
- Serial URL: http://ingentaconnect.com/content/mts/mtsj
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Case studies; Corrosion; Deterioration by environmental action; Environmental protection; Historic preservation; Historic sites; Multidisciplinary teams; Public private partnerships; Research projects; Shipwrecks
- Identifier Terms: National Park Service; USS Arizona
- Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Environment; History; Marine Transportation; Research;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00985223
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jan 15 2005 12:00AM