From Multinational Construction to Digital Journey

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From Multinational Construction to Digital Journey

• An IGCC Innovation in International Cooperation

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Unprecedented Opportunity

• From the Caspian to the Mediterranean

The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline Route, subject
to detailed engineering planning.
Proposed Pipeline
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Cultural Heritage

• 100,000 years of human history

Archaeologists world-wide note thousands of
ancient sites bulldozed and robbed. Along this
route, we shudder at what may be lost.
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Climate Modeling

• Future decades of regional uncertainty

Floods and droughts plague the Caspian basin.
Land management is hampered by poor forecasting
capacity paleoclimatology is essential.
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Land Use Management

• A past century of environmental disaster

Drowning in deserts. Dikes protect villages from
Caspian encroachment, as leaking canals bring
groundwater to surface level.
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From the old Silk Road

• 12.5 million below the poverty line

The Iranian revolution, Soviet collapse, war in
Iraq, war in the north Caucasus, and natural
disasters successively depressed and isolated the
region.
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to the New Silk Road

• 18 million fiber, cellular, and wireless users

Telecomms make real-time communications,
data-sharing, and community outreach a real
possibility.
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Unprecedented Challenges

• Rapid development in a fragile ecology

The Bosphorus the Caucasus the Taurus all are
biodiversity hotspots.
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Monumental Engineering

• CaucasusTaurusCilician Gates

1928
A multinational, multiethnic consortium of
skills, resources, and technologies will tackle
this heroic construction challenge.
and now
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Unprecedented Partnerships

• Dataeducationindustry

Residents hired and trained to obtain samples,
monitor sensors, and build caretakership win
entry to educational opportunities, and a voice
in development.

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Uniting a 1,100-mile Transect

• Archaeological survey and salvage

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Culture

• with outreach through virtual museums

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Uniting a Historical Region

• Soil and sediment sampling

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Resources

• for unprecedented climate study

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Uniting a Science Community

• State-of-the-art paleoclimate repository

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Geography

• wired for world-wide access

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Uniting a 1,100-mile Transect

• Imagery training centers

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CultureResourcesGeography

• for culture, environment, hydrology, agronomy,
  and industry

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Uniting a 1,100-mile Transect

• Archaeological survey and salvage
• Soil and sediment sampling
• State-of-the-art paleoclimate repository
• Imagery interpretation training center
• A Digital Silk Road

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CultureResourcesGeography

• with outreach through virtual museums
• for unprecedented climate study
• wired for world-wide access
• for culture, environment, hydrology, agronomy,
  and industry
• moving at the speed of light

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From West, to East, to

• Ceyhan-Tblisi-BakuAlmatyUrumchi

This pipeline is only one of a comprehensive
network planned across Eurasia Africa South
America

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An Unprecedented Opportunity

• We will conduct world cultural heritage
  preservation and data collection incidental to
  multinational pipeline construction.
• What we do here will set a standard for such work
  on four continents.
• It is not only what we can doit is what we must
  do.

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With Unprecedented Stories

• How many can we tell?
• Spectacular archaeology
• Pivotal history
• Nation, Region, and Ethnicity
• Stunning natural beauty
• Fragile biodiversity
• Engineering genius
• ?

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Timelines

• Planning Sessions through June 2001
• Route Engineering through June 2002
• Major Site Avoidance
• Small Site Survey, Assessment, and Rescue
• Route Construction through June 2004
• Artifacts, Cores, and Soils Collection
• FAST-TRACK Site Rescue
• Facilities and Infrastructure Construction
• Post-Construction through June 2006
• Protocol Publication, Institutionalization
• Data Analysis

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Participants (and more coming)

• California Universities
• UC IGCC, SIO, SDSC, UCB, UCLA, UCSB, UCSD
• USC, SDSU
• University of Pennsylvania
• Museum Black Sea Trade Project
• Middle East Technical University, Ankara
• Center for Research and Assessment of the
  Historic Environment (TAÇDAM)
• Istanbul Technical University
• Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences
• Archaeological Settlements of Turkey (TAY)
• Atyrau State University, Khazakhstan

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For more information, contact

• Program Director
• Jennifer R. Pournelle ltjpournelle_at_ucsd.edugt
• Development Officer
• Ron Bee ltrbee_at_ucsd.edugt
• lthttp//www-igcc.ucsd.edugt