15.945: cooperative research and training programs of the national park system cesu network programming supports a comprehensive network of cooperative study units to facilitate cooperative…

This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $165,000 from the U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service Intermountain Region under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs – Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program will support a project by the University of New Mexico (UNM) to conduct an architectural vulnerability assessment of the 17th century Quarai Spanish Mission Church in Mountainair, New Mexico. The project will gather foundational data through a structural engineering assessment, analysis of current climate conditions, and a condition survey using elevation photography to identify structurally vulnerable areas and material vulnerabilities across the church's sandstone walls. This project will provide critical information to inform science-based management and preservation of the National Park System's historic resources.

15.945: cooperative research and training programs of the national park system cesu network programming supports a comprehensive network of cooperative study units to facilitate cooperative research, technical assistance, education, and training to inform science-based management of the national park system. The study units facilitate multi-disciplinary science and integrated information products across multiple geographic regions of the national park system. This project will result in the completion of an architectural vulnerability assessment of the 17TH century quarai spanish mission church, a structure built with local sandstone using traditional techniques in 1626. This project will complete foundational data gathering required to identify structurally vulnerable areas of the church in its current condition, as well as material vulnerabilities across its walls. Foundational data gathering will include a structural engineering assessment, analysis of current climate conditions focusing on environmental changes over the past several decades, as well as first-order condition survey of the church using elevation photography for annotations. Beneficiaries include state and local governments, federally recognized indian tribal governments, public private nonprofit organizations, nonprofit institutions of higher education, and the general public).