who was alexander dallas bache? -...
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Who was Alexander Dallas Bache?
Maryellen Sault, National Geodetic Survey
Kyle Ward, Office of Coast Survey
How did we
get here?
Superintendents of the U.S. Coast Survey
Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler Alexander Dallas Bache
Alexander Dallas Bache
Charleston, SC
1810
Geodetic Survey Baselines
Bar of Invariable Length
Edisto Island, SC
Edisto Island, SC Recon Work
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Geodetic Survey Baseline
Edisto Island, SC
Triangulation
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Geodetic Survey Monument
1858 Charleston, SC Nautical Chart
14https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/
Supporting the Civil War
https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/
Supporting the Civil War
• Superintendent of Weights & Measurements
• One of the Smithsonian Institution Founders
• President of the National Academy of Sciences
• Awarded several medals from foreign governments
• First to hire a woman for a scientific position.
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Bache’s Accomplishments
Continue preservation efforts of the Bache geodetic survey baseline on Edisto Island, South Carolina
1. Replicate and Update Interpretative Boards
2. Create Interactive Website
3. Design Information Handout
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Preserve America Grant Proposal
Edisto Island, SC East Base
Bache Monument - 2015
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Edisto Island, SC East Base
Bache Monument - 2016
Bache Monument Preservation Story Map
https://arcg.is/1vgVf22
Bache Monument Preservation Story Map
https://arcg.is/1vgVf22
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Outreach Material
Acknowledgements