 I'm very excited to be here today. My name is Sarah Miller. I'm with the Florida Public Archaeology Network. Do I need to be closer? All right, go sit down. All right, I'm now sitting. I spent a lot of time during the first year of Heritage Modern Scouts telling people the who, what, when, where, why, and mechanics. And then the last year or two talking a little bit about our preliminary outcomes, kind of annual reporting. What I wanted to do for today was really drill down into one case study to familiarize you with Heritage Modern Scouts and also talk about what impacts the program has had on policy and procedures in Florida, knowing we have no state plan or procedure for dealing with climate change. So it's been an obstacle. And we're continuing to work around it, I think very successfully with our partners. Do come tomorrow. We are presenting in the Just Add Water session. And Sarah Ayers-Riggs made my colleague in the audience. And she'll be talking also about submerged resources, some of the case studies from South Florida, which are very different than the one I'll be presenting here. And I'm part of that paper, too. And we'll give you some of those preliminary annual impacts on that talk. So that is not this talk. I want to tell you we're with the Florida Public Archaeology Network, our mission in a nutshell is to help protect the state's buried path through education and outreach. I think when FPAN was first envisioned, the main threat was development. And that is the threat they were more specifically talking to. So in the last five, six years, it's been a transition in working with local governments, assisting the state, that our threats are defined differently now, and this has become a big part of what we do that reaches to all our major work areas. And I put this map up here just to show the bathtub model of some of the predictions of 4,000 sites that will be impacted with the 2-meter rise. And then one of my favorite photos there is from the Canaveral Air Station National Register site where they spray-painted on it abandonment and place. And I appreciate that honesty of a management strategy, because that really is the reality for most sites in Florida. You can read between the lines of this 2004 report that the state put together and from discussions with other state employees and representatives. I think they had an idea of the threat that was coming, and they just didn't know what to do, what resources they could possibly put together, and how to prioritize. So they published this archaeological stabilization guide and an effort to give that information to local governments, to counties, to partners that might have the ability to do some stabilization. However, if you read it now, if you read it then, it kind of reads as maybe what not to do for site stabilization. And the case study that I'm going to talk about was included. And it was included all the failures to stabilization that contribute greatly to what we see today. And while I have this slide up, I wanted to show you where my site area is. It's Shelf Bluff Landing. It's in the northeast corner of Florida where that arrow is swinging. Shelf Bluff Landing is a site on the inner coastal along the total Talamata River. It's not a direct coastal site, but it's greatly inundated and impacted from the tidal zone there. But I wanted to point out that whole green area you see is the Guana Preserve that we've been working in. It's a very large area, lots of sites, lots of other places we've been working, but I'm going to just drill down at this one site. You can see there's a view of it today. And you've got the inner coastal there and deep dive into the site. The site goes back to 6,000 years ago. Emily Jane Murray, my co-author for this paper, she's the Sheldminton nerd, and I am the well nerd. So in the abstract, you'll notice I highlighted the well. That's just my own story preference, knowing of course I never get to talk about this site when I'm 150 miles from my north. That's, I have to say, that opportunity. But the site does date back to 6,000-year-old arcade and other prehistoric cultures represented as well during the first Spanish period. There's a mission, 16th century mission that's located out of the site. Also plantations during the British period. We have both Indigo and rice. And then getting into the second Spanish period, we have these New Yorkans that come up to St. Augustine. They're indentured servants that came to New Sermon of each petition for the freedom in March the 60 miles on foot up to St. Augustine. So they're an important descendant community to us. And this site is attributed to them. This is the public face of this site. We go and do bike tours there and hikes. And it's a destination where people walk out to on the trail with signage and interpretation. So that I identify strongly with the well. I think most the public does who are walking around on the site. Erojan has always been a part of this site's history. It was in fact documented first time in 1952, John Griffin reported the site. He based his whole interpretation of the site on the artifacts that were eroding out and later subsequent tests found his interpretation to be accurate to what he found just based on what was eroding out. There are two lines on that map. In the 80s the state acquired the property started doing some aerial photography analysis trying to see how much had actually scaled back. And I wrote the numbers down. I wanna make sure I read them correctly because in a 44 year period based on these aerial photos they lost 12 meters. And what we're gonna be leading up to by the end of the talk is the loss of 30 to 60 meters of the site at current day. The Corps of Engineers, they have impacted the navigation for the site. So that's a big issue with the channels eroding and motorized boat wave action. So just a lot of pressure build up on this one point. In the late 80s the state put in this bulkhead and this is part of that stabilization guide. So I was trying to tell you about best practices. Only the bulkhead only survived a short time. You can guess what happened. They put the bulkhead up and all the energy started to deplete other areas of the site with these splits. So they took it down, they did some sloping and some fill and that washed away entirely within three months. Then in 1992 they added riprap geo webbing filter cloth and that storm came almost immediately. It takes 75% of the material off the site. So what did they do? They put it all out there again and they kept restoring it but it's not been revisited in 10 years. So there's a picture of the site as it stood in 2006, 16, which is an important year for us too because that's when we initiated the Heritage Monitoring Scout program. We were really impressed and inspired by programs that were happening here in Europe with state and citizen. We wanted to capture some of that community engagement as we are at PAN and we do education and outreach. So we designed the program to be a citizen science initiative to be community engagement and to go out and record sites at risk and report back to us. We pitched to the preserve, can we do a pilot study here and do some intense training and see how that goes? And they said, sure, so we conducted four. We planned to do four that had rotating topics in the classroom that would increase the monitor skills and identifying artifacts on the surface and go out into the field and practice monitoring activities with photography, mapping, and the other idea we had built into this pilot was that we'd rotate around different sites and also help the preserve because they have a mandate that they have to go and monitor the site. So because of that workshop, we were out there September 28th, making sure we were all set, taking tons of photos, seeing what we were gonna do with the first workshop, not knowing that a week later, Hurricane Matthew was gonna come up the coast and the worst side to be on a hurricane is a little probably any side, but especially the western end and just tore the town apart and people are still recovering very unexpected during a high tide and during a full moon so it's gonna hit the hurricane right back down. So we went back out to the site as soon as it was safe and found that I would estimate about five feet of the site had just gone. And then Irma, not even a year later, comes up and takes another four feet of the site off. This time, a lot of the shell been washed up and over onto the eastern edge of the site. So that was a question, we had a lot of questions at this point of what was happening and then we went a couple of days, about a week later because the northeasters in the area, the water levels stayed very high for a couple months and we started to wonder like, is this the new normal and it's just gonna be water like this everywhere? Is this for some perspective? This is our site on the left as it was just a few years ago and here it is now with that this beautiful Kokina stone that's now exposed but that's, and you can see tilting over on the right is the stationary photo place where you can take monitoring photos and it's now like pitched into the side. We found scallop shells, I see Ryan Harkin shells that gave us a new perspective on the prehistoric environment that we didn't know before, we hadn't seen these shells, we hadn't been noted in this area before and also some of the construction features of the well became visible during Matthew, they disappeared during Irma. After Irma, we requested, I'm sorry, so we've got photo documentation of the site but we also have remark that was installed in the 80s that we've been looking for the whole time and we finally found it after Irma. So we've kind of impacted policy and procedure in five ways and one of my favorite photos to me because it's been difficult sometimes our Bureau of Archaeological Research has never got there very encouraging but they're not always able to get out and help us on the site. This is a national registered site. So here the bar staff have come, we requested, we have specific things we wanted them to look at so they were cannot look. It's set up kind of a protocol now that we have. So even before this hurricane season started I got a call from same staff members you see here talking about other sites, okay? So if this happens again, here's a protocol that we can do and follow up other sites. So I think that's been very positive. We wanna do more 3D scanning, more photogrammetry of the site but it's really given us a model. Let's go back to the site that we're in that stabilization guide, do a checkup, how are they doing? Get better baselines based on the technology that we have now and see what's so stable that is in the sky. When it gets, we'll find a lot more stories and we'll wait for this one. We have noticed a change in the management plan for the Guana Preserve which is another great way that we've impacted policy and procedure and in talking to the staff personal communication they said that is a direct reflection of our monitoring out there. The public workshops are in their work plan and also some discussion of prioritization. So that's been very positive for a state and federal managed area. And then we have operated on a shoestring trying to do similar things to what state and since then we're doing with the monitoring recording but we wanted to give our monitor something a little easier and collect the app but we weren't quite there yet. So we looked into ARCH's database open source from getting it to a whole monument foundation. We got that built and then low and behold our division of historic resources said we like it. Can we put our logo on it? Can you make a portal for the state land managers? So we meant to make this for our community engagement but it's now become the official monitoring program for the whole state and it's given access to us, to these land managers and state park who could never go to a workshop on climate change but they can come and learn about ARCH's. We come here with James Davidson looking at an inundated site slave quarters up on the east coast. It was flooded more days and it wasn't when he was out there. So we all know what we're looking at and we all know what we're seeing but it's very important to us that now we have this sustained partnership with the state. And then you know, you never know every hurricane season is an opportunity to learn. We really developed our FN protocol response that we hadn't really had a place before and now twice. I'm looking victorious here because the first time around with Matthew flooded not one, not two, three FN cars because I didn't get them high and dry enough. So this is me right before Irma sandbagging and wearing my climate change is real t-shirt and going out and helping the community sandbag. But we helped with FEMA preliminary assessments, helped with state side assessments and now we're tuned in with the Heritage Emergency National Task Force to help out our questions managers as well. So thank you very much for your time. I brought you some prezzies. So I've got some cards for upcoming conference keeping history above water next year. Some stickers, some scale cards and I'll put my card on the back table. And don't forget come tomorrow also to the just add water session.