From the Field: Hawai‘i
In October 2022, Justin Dunnavant received a grant from the National Geographic Society to create photogrammetric models of submerged heritage sites around Maui and Lana‘i (Hawai‘i).
Dunnavant is assistant professor of anthropology and a core faculty member of the Cotsen Institute. The research was supplemented with primary-school curriculum created by academic instructional coach Ashleigh Glickley. The team conducted project operations from the Exploration Vessel Nautilus, owned and operated by Robert Ballard, a National Geographic explorer-at-large who previously discovered the wrecks of the Titanic (1985), the battleship Bismarck (1989), and the USS Yorktown aircraft carrier (1998). During the two weeks of the project, photogrammetric models were made of a sunken Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter aircraft, a Curtiss SB2C Helldiver bomber, and other remains dating to the Second World War.
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Figure 1. Underwater archaeologists at work. (Photograph by Jenny Adler.)
Figure 2. Underwater archaeologists at work. (Photograph by Jenny Adler.)
Figure 3. Photogrammetric model of the investigated sunken Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter aircraft, created by Dominic Bush.
Published on November 1, 2022.