Dr. Bruce Bourque, of the Maine State Museum, will provide a short historical sketch of the 17th century community of English settlers that lived and worked around Merrymeeting Bay. He will explain how the project team plans to rediscover and systematically study the lost sites from this period, using high-tech remote-sensing technologies, such as high-resolution airborne LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging). He will also demonstrate how LiDAR imaging can be a valuable tool in this study and many other disciplines.