Chance Coughenour

Experience

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  Babylon Idiomas

  Oct 2010 - Apr 2014

  English Teacher
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  Rio Bravo Archaeology Survey and Field School

  Jun 2011 - now

  Mapping Director

  CAD Mapping and Field Surveyor for household archaeology and settlement survey project with Dr. Stanley Walling from the College of Philadelphia and the Mesoamerican Research Lab at the University of Texas at AustinThe Rio Bravo Archaeological Field School (RBAFS) trains students in archaeological field procedures, such as survey and excavation, in the context of a state-of-the-art archaeological research project. The Rio Bravo Archaeological Survey (RBAS) is a long-term, cutting-edge project focused on deciphering the character and significance of ancient Maya households in an unexplored subtropical forest in Belize, Central America. The RBAS and the RBAFS are providing valuable insights into the day-to-day workings of Prehispanic Maya culture and have been attracting motivated students and volunteers for several years. With its current focus on Prehispanic ceremonialism, ancient water management, and geo-archaeological research (soils and ancient botanical remains), the Project’s excavations and mapping efforts are now reaching their most interesting and dynamic phase. Among other things, this coming season, the Field School and Research project will be investigating an extremely unusual Ritual Ballcourt, built by and for Maya commoners. Show less

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  University of Stuttgart

  Jun 2014 - May 2016

  EU Researcher in Digital Cultural Heritage

  Project title: Automated 3D/4D Data Collection and Processing using Terrestrial LiDAR and Photogrammetryhttp://www.itn-dch.org

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  Rekrei

  Mar 2015 - now

  Founder

  This project strives to preserve the memory of lost cultural heritage through the means of digital restoration.Following the destruction of cultural heritage in northern Iraq, Project Mosul was founded by Matthew Vincent and Chance Coughenour as a volunteer effort to facilitate the empowerment of volunteers from across the globe to aid in the restoration of our shared heritage in face of its unnecessary loss. The recent acts of cultural destruction have been described by UNESCO as a ‘cultural tragedy’ and strongly condemned by ICOMOS. Beyond just destruction, we are witness to looting and black market sales of cultural heritage from Iraq, Syria and beyond. But we need not feel helpless nor passive spectators. Beyond just destruction, we are witness to looting and black market sales of cultural heritage from Iraq, Syria and beyond. Likewise, cultural heritage is also at risk such as the devastating results of the earthquake in Nepal has demonstrated.As the project has advanced its scope internationally, so too, has its name. Rekrei means recreate in Esperanto, a language that was constructed for the purpose of international universality. Building on the initial workflow of using crowdsourced images to virtually recreate artefacts using photogrammetry, our web-based platform is evolving to better utilise publicly-available data on the web to assist our volunteers in new ways. Show less

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  Uxul Archaeological Project

  Apr 2015 - May 2016

  Digital Documentation Project Manager

  Over the last year, through the collaboration of the University of Bonn and the University of Stuttgart, these new methods have been carried out at the Maya site of Uxul in Campeche, Mexico. From small objects to entire architectural groups, laser scanning and photogrammetric mapping was completed in only a few weeks yet the amount and quality of data collected was substantial.

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  Google

  Oct 2016 - now

  Senior Program Manager - Google Arts & Culture

  Helping to protect, preserve and share our global cultural heritage.