Preservation and Progress - Session 3

Preservation Delaware Session 3 - Climate change--and its accompanying sea-level rise and storm surges--promises to have an increasingly challenging effect on historical resources in Delaware, which has the lowest average land elevation in the United States. Since coastal areas and rivers often attracted some of the earliest settlement and development, the archaeological sites, historic districts, and other cultural resources in these areas are often particularly vulnerable when water levels rise. This panel discussion will explore how we can anticipate these problems through GIS mapping, and will also consider how to best preserve threatened historic resources through both adaptation and documentation.