 Figured with a climate change session. We always talk about how do we make climate change relevant to Voters was mentioned earlier and the public. So I figured what the heck let's talk about that. So I am I'm with citizen the coastal and intertidal zone archeological network and We have been running for three and a half years working with members of the public Working with members of the public around England and looking at coastal and river archeology So some of our happy lucky volunteers They sort of have got a lot of context actually for the UK with the last few speakers. So that's been excellent, but Just to give you an idea about Climate change in the UK as it stands You can say climate change in the UK first start. So that's quite useful. This is a recent study study from the government They did a survey and so they have a public attitude tracker for climate change So at least recently 74% of people who said they're fairly or very concerned about climate change. So that's pretty positive start For what we're dealing what we're dealing with However, I should highlight that it's the sort of awareness of climate change or at least concern is highest among Sort of the higher social classes AB And less so among those who have other pressing concerns to worry about basically paying the bills, etc However, usually these types of folks and lower the lower social economic economic Groups are more likely to be affected by climate change and on the coast It's very big population High areas of deprivation. So so something we need to think about when we're working with people and but Yes, so the people the most vulnerable people will be the least Likely to be able to adapt to climate change So this summer we're thinking how let's see what people actually think of when they think of the seaside because Lisa the UK or in a little island So people always think about seaside as being obviously the sea but kind of the beach and leisure and history old buildings and shipwrecks were very low-down on people's thought process and we threw in climate change and sea level rise and erosion and against quite low-down as well So that gives us an idea where we are baseline wise And that is why a big part of our project is raising awareness about archaeology on the coast and about climate change and It's pretty fun But just give you a little example of sort of the types of things that we are raising awareness of it's we use examples like Past sea level rise. So here's a pet level. It's a sort of a root system from an old forest there and so archaeology title archaeologists can see stuff like this and we go Oh, well, you know forest now exciting, but for most people it looks like six in the mud So how to get people enthused about sticks in the mud. Well, let me tell you what Sorry This is artist reconstructions of the site That's really helpful for people to get an idea of why recording archaeology in these environments is important and Helps them to see what we would see when we're down there and It's got a little deer But we also tap into local flood memories, so we don't just tell people What what you know why they should care about it? They know they remember the 53 flood which Was really damaging to the east coast. So these trees here Were the sea wall was breached and it was left to be a salt marsh But you can see well this one in the front here that was from the 53 flood as well So it was left to go to salt marsh and so you can see these Submerged forests in action here So these would turn into those little sticks in the mud that we look at but you know much later So it kind of helps to tie in Modern climate change and things you can see to what we look in the past You can see them all here in the back a little trees all there, too But doing doing is what gets people excited about climate change or interested and you know Why do they care about it? It's by seeing there and being in a different landscape So these are some school kids who took out to pet level as well and They thought it was great because they got to be muddy and jump in puddles and have a great time But you know with some secret learning as well So we were out there recording some of these trees and recording where the branches were as well because then you can see But it's that act of doing that that makes things relevant to people's lives So we work with local communities. This is a Mersey Island. So we're out with some of the local island residents carrying out environmental sampling But it's all about working with citizen science So working with people using their local knowledge Because their interpretations of this stuff will be better than we can tell them And as highlighted before this is based on Sharks app as well. So we have a smartphone app which is kind of giving people the tools To record using that local knowledge So then they can have a GPS and things I'll talk about in a little bit. I'm in another paper in the session So I'll skip that But it's about that involvement. So it's it's valuing people's knowledge. It's not just talking at them And Contextualizing so I was just gonna flag up here that we have 2500 registered users of the app, but only a hundred and sixty-six people have actually done anything with it Because a lot of people are actually just using it as a guided walk for themselves So it's kind of contextualizing the coast and hopefully that seaside perception test that I highlighted earlier will start filling in those gaps Instead of it just being about beach chairs and ice cream, which is also great But it again telling people how something new to look at kind of using archaeology as a as a tool to entice people to the coast and then They start seeing erosion and it's sort of highlighted here in these conditions are So little example, so for the UK at least what we have to think about with climate change impacts is More fierce storms rising sea levels a lot of water and runoff and increased rainfall Anyway, so this is a coastal erosion example here. This is in the 70s Down at Berlin Gap any Sussex. So lovely chalky cliffs and you can see here a Little line in the chalk. It's actually a 40 meter long Bronze Age shaft. You can see the hand holds carved into it And so before my time, I didn't get to see it, but you can see the little folks on the beach here for scale So it's kind of tiny and it was only visible for about five years and then it was gone so it's slowly eroded back and Is no more and so we thought a couple years ago. Well, what the heck and If the coast if it keeps eroding back, maybe we can find the bottom of this thing out there somewhere So some of our volunteers out there We're really enthused about it as you would be if you saw these pictures as well And so they're out there every day wandering out on the cliffs on the wave cut platform below and in 2016 Voila And they're looking pretty pumped about it, obviously They're excited and so we actually actually back to Excavate the bottom to see if we could find any remains at the bottom of it and it was about 28 centimeters deep So not not much coming out of there, but it was very exciting on the last and actually it's a good way of using Archeology as a proxy for coastal erosion and coastal change because people can then see oh well in the photos in 1976 it was the coast edge and now it is not And then you can start working your way back that's a way of using a fixed point Which is archaeology? To tell a story about climate change and coastal change that's a little quote about again seeing that urgency And enthusing people in different ways is using the media so we're no strangers there And archaeology is exciting and people in the UK luckily are really excited about archaeology That's that helps for us But yeah using the media is a very big part of that and also Channeling that energy using social media as well to sort of get people involved So we're again highlighting the app on the TV show so here's a humble brag about me being on TV but so again highlighting that tool that people can use to then Looking they can monitor the coast themselves and great But another good flag up is that sense of place. So that's been mentioned before When you're working with local people on the coast they're going to bring their own Flavor to things which is great. So this is some some young people we were working with in whole So teaching them how to use the app sort of digital engagement So making it interesting because it's just old buildings that they weren't terribly bothered about But when we said that we could take pictures of things on the app and Conditions surveyed they were kind of into it, but they started taking pictures their own way So they're taking selfies with every bit of heritage that they could find which is it's pretty cool because that's their value of their heritage and Again making it making old stuff interesting and they they're really yeah, I'm loving it So I'm gonna cut it short actually because I'm talking later but making climate change relevant and We we did a course evaluation through our project as well And we're asking people if they had learned something about erosion or coastal change and at least 75% of people who came to our outreach events Did pick up on the message? So so that's good news for us. I think and but good news for coastal heritage as well and Most of those people at outreach that would then come to a training event too. So that's that's good for us But I'm gonna cut it short. So changing attitudes is about galvanizing the community and that's me done