Cross-Generation Expedition Handoffs Using EchoQuilt Archives

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When the original lead retires and a new generation picks up the survey, the map can't die with the memory. EchoQuilt archives carry provenance across 20-year expeditions.

The Cave Research Foundation formed in 1957 to give Flint Ridge expeditions the institutional continuity their original leads couldn't provide forever. Proyecto Espeleológico Sistema Huautla has been running annual Mexican expeditions since 2014, carrying forward work that began in the 1960s. A cave's geometry outlives any single caver's career by factors of three or four. That creates an archival problem: the map, the ambient signatures, and the provenance all have to survive handoff between generations.

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