H2020Индивидуална стипендия2022–2024

WATERISKULT · Climate change risk to underwater cultural heritage in stone

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2022-09-01 → 2024-08-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 171 473 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

Линиите свързват координатора с партньорите.

Накратко на български

Влиянието на климатичните промени върху подводното културно наследство от камък, като например потопени руини и селища, се анализира чрез лабораторни и полеви тестове. Това помага да се разбере колко бързо се разграждат тези обекти поради закисляването на океана и екстремното време.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Climate change risk to underwater cultural heritage in stone

Anthropogenic climate change has multiple and diverse effects on seas and oceans. Besides the environmental, economic, social, and health implications, it has a dramatic impact also on underwater cultural heritage, which involves millions of submerged ruins, settlements, wrecks, and artifacts worldwide. The risk posed to their preservation, historical legacy, and component materials represents a global-scale issue. WATERISKULT provides the first quantitative assessment of the climate change risk to underwater cultural heritage, considering the impact of ocean acidification and extreme weather events on stone materials, which are among the most important natural resources exploited all through human history and prehistory. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach based on mixed field and laboratory experimentation, including laboratory simulations, field exposure tests, sampling, analysis, and monitoring, WATERISKULT explores the observed and predicted decay trends in underwater archaeological sites, controlled by the diverse characteristics of the stone materials and submarine environments. The results delivered address the deterioration amount, rate, forms, and dynamics, and the relevant driving forces and constraints. The findings allow comprehending the vulnerability of submarine archaeological sites and landscapes under the environmental stresses brought about by climate change.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The impact of climate change on cultural heritage has been addressed only recently beside the most discussed environmental and socioeconomic implications. Broad attention is given to the vulnerability of tangible cultural assets on land, whereas underwater sites are often neglected. WATERISKULT provides the first quantitative assessment of the climate change risk to underwater cultural heritage, with a focus on archaeological stone. The project aims at predicting the effects of key-factors of climate change on stone deterioration, i.e., ocean acidification (combined with sea level rise and ocean warming) and increasing intensity and shifts of extreme weather events (cyclones); by laboratory simulations, field-exposure tests, and monitoring of heritage stones, the effects of different levels of CO2, pressure, and temperature in seawater and high-intensity ocean currents will be investigated. This project also aims at exploring the causes and effects of current deterioration in underwater archaeological sites, constrained by diverse stone properties and submarine environments, specifically in the Mediterranean region. Downscaled trends and patterns of observed and predicted stone decay will be obtained, based on the (micro)structural and compositional changes and biodeterioration. This research adopts an interdisciplinary approach involving petrography/mineralogy, oceanography, analytical chemistry, marine biology, hydraulic engineering, and underwater archaeology.WATERISKULT may pave the way to long-term strategies of heritage protection and studies of other archaeological materials. By marking a step forward in assessing the climate change risk to the anthroposphere, the timeliness of this project reflects the policies and research promoted by the EU, at the forefront of the fight against climate change and heritage valorization. The echo of the environmental debate on the media is now stronger than ever, and so are the possibilities to raise public awareness.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA · PadovaКоординаторИталия