MACHU REPORT NO 2 out now!

The Machu Report no 2 has seen the light in March. The first Report was an introduction on the MACHU project in general. With topics on what, where and who. Introduction on the partners the aims (GIS) and the test area's were machu is being tested.
The second MACHU Report gives an update on what's going on in the MACHU test areas and news on the MACHU GIS. Articles on scientific research done in the MACHU project as the OSL (Optically Stimulated Luminesence dating) dating on the Burgzand 10 wreck, MACHU and other stakeholders as non-archaeological (scientific) parties.

• Sent an email to MACHU to order MACHU Report no. 2.

Table of content:

• The MACHU testareas
  -The Netherlands ( Will Brouwers)
  - Belgium (Ine Demerre & Inge Zeebroek)
  - Germany (RGK projectteam)
  - England (Chris Pater)
  - Poland (Iwona Pomian)
  - Portugal Francesco Alves & Paulo Monteiro
  - Sweden Nina Eklöf & Jim Hansson
  
  
• GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM
  A prototype WEB GIS application for MACHU (Herman Hootsen & Wiim Dijkman)
  The concept of decision Support Systems (DSS) (Chris Pater & Martijn Manders)
  Historic maritime maps in MACHU-GIS (Menne Kosian)
  
  
• STAKEHOLDERS
  - Cooperation with non-archaeological scientific institutes, organisations and individuals (Ine Demerre)
  - The Greifswald ship barrier (Friederich Luth & Kathrin Staude)
  - MACHU GIS as a planning tool? (Vanessa Loureiro & Joao Gachet Alves)
  - MACHU and the avocational divers community (Will Brouwers)
  - MACHU - an outreach initiative (Angela Manders)
  - Legislative Matters in Underwater Cultural Hertitage Management (Andrea Otte)
  
  
  
• INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES TO ASSES AND MONITOR
  - Investigating sediment dynamics in and around shipwrecks (Martijn Manders, Bertil van Os & Jacob Wallinga)
  - Hydrodynamics in the Gulf of Gdansk (Malgorzata Robakiewicz)
  - Modelling sediment mobility (Justin Dix, David Lambkin & Tim Rangecroft)
  
  
• MANAGING CULTURAL HERITAGE UNDERWATER
  - MACHU website news (Will Brouwers)
  - Some reflections of Underwater Cultural Heritage Management (Andreas Olsson)
  - The future of MACHU (Martijn Manders)