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informal interview with him, and shortly after that
I accepted a position with the Olmsted Center.
As an emerging professional working at the
National Park Service, I have the opportunity to
work on projects that involve research, writing,
and mapping, and others that deal specifically with
some of the issues I focused on while in grad school.
One major difference from school is that the design
work I do is on a more site-specific and detailed
level. One example is Derby Wharf at Salem
Maritime National Historic Site, which is seeing a
localized rise in sea level on the Salem Harbor. The
wharf is an earthen structure reinforced by thick
stone bulkheads on all sides. It was rehabilitated
in the late 1930s, but has been subjected to the
damaging forces of high tides, wave a