The intention of the proposed project, funded by a National Park Service Preservation Training and Technology (PTT) Grant, is student training in rapid in situ state of the art documentation on diverse case studies of coastal cultural heritage that are unstable, eroding or deteriorating situated both on land and underwater. To facilitate a national need in cultural resource management, researchers from different disciplines will work together to adapt and develop several technologies and techniques both low and high cost. Each case study site has state or national historic significance, conservation management challenges and serves as an intellectual platform to segue between preservation of an historic icon and research questions that will be utilized to develop student theses and dissertation topics.