 You called him back this afternoon. Sarah and I are delighted to be here and talking to you a little bit more about HMS Florida. The Ocean Literacy part of this paper came from a joint session with the UNESCO Committee of the Education and Transportation Committee and with the Heritage Ethics New Reform Committee at Society for Historic Archaeology. We did kind of a messy job into Ocean Literacy. What that is, what are the tenants, the educators, the scientists that were involved? And so this paper is not going to focus on that, but at that time imagine what it would be like to apply some of those principles to what we were already doing at HMS. It turns out we've been doing a lot with submerged literacy education outreach events for a while, but applying it through Heritage Mines Countries, I knew they'd not respect a lot of the work like Gina Wright and Sarah Work. So very closely, it's down in South Florida. You heard a little bit yesterday about the Florida Public Archaeology Network and HMS. So I just wanted to jump right into some evaluation, preliminary evaluation assessment of the program as it stands just two years later. So I've presented the first year numbers before and these are cumulative. We have 864 reports submitted as of the end of that annual year. And what we're asking people to do is go out into the field to monitor sites using their phone or using some forms. They do this individually or as part of training and they have many ways to be involved. So we have 864 sites that have been reported on previous boards, which is pretty cool. Then we thought it made sense to evaluate HMS as it is a public engagement program through the engagement pyramid and you see our numbers kind of stack up nicely as we go up through the different levels, but this was a nice heuristic device for thinking of how do we want different people to engage with HMS Florida, how will we know and do it well. The nice thing about the pyramid is people are meant to move up and down. You don't want your leaders to stay up there and get exhausted. So it's okay if people go up and down and they'll offer that in your structure, your program. We have this number is probably exponentially higher. So we've had a lot of media out the last year. We do have an End Mark group on Facebook. I invite you all to join. It's our number to increase our own literacy on the topic and that of the public and the Scouts. We now have 432 Scouts registered, but I like the citizen remarks of the hungry people who are actually active each year and that number goes up and down a little bit. And then we do have current leader at 129 sites, but somebody I've never even known. That's a great example of it. Hopefully the program's working. I'm gonna fly through some Scouts about HMS, but from the site recording side, I think we owe something to the state and for their trust in us to let them know what we were taking a look at. Most of the sites reported are on state win, which the program is designed to do. So that's excellent. And we also have another sector of private. I think the state views quite favorably since those are Scouts not in their management. We're sequestered. Do you guys find these sites? Are we kind of overwhelming? Yes, they can find the sites. Some are not mapped in the right place. They need to be corrected in just a small flipper of sites that cannot be found on Scouts. We monitor more than just archeological sites. We're looking at cultural resources as to find by the sort of massive type one. So first, the jewelry are archeological sites, but we also have historic cemeteries, which is great because we can release those site information quite freely for those. And we have some pilot programs going on right now for historic structure. Some other categories of the archeological sites reported on predominantly prehistoric sites, some historic, a few shipwrecks, and that number will go up thanks to Sarah and Mitch here, and note these are again by the Florida metric site file designation. Just quickly looking at the threat levels year to year, and when we talk about prioritization, we are looking for the sites that are in good condition with a high threat level. And these are pretty good numbers to see that a lot of the sites in good condition assessed by the scouts have some of medium and low threats. This shows how HMS is active. These are all the counties in Florida, and we're active in all 67 except for these, and in different ways. Scouts live in one county, they monitor in another. Training happens in one county, our partners are in another county. So there's a diverse way of people are active with heritage monitoring scouts. And when I talk about these real quickly, these are scouts by county. The blue is last year, the oranges this year, just to show, even within a year, there's a lot of diversity between where people are going, and if we lose one scout in one county, the whole line can potentially go away. So we're trying to look at that for retention rates. Also the sites monitor in the county, this was all one scout who has now got a medical issue. So I'm hoping, you can see there's no more tar. So knowing that we're at risk for sustainability, we do more than just monitoring activities. The Asian mass was launched during the highly united event. That's when we get experts, we get our schools is still on our own learning curve. We get the public just to push these issues a little further down the road. We are now up to four. Next year will be in Pensacola, in August, we invite you to come. There's some other products related to heritage areas in Florida. We've got the Florida Archaeology Month theme to be heritage areas. We have an exhibit that's moving around Florida, we've got some public libraries right now, in our own advocacy for telling local officials that we have met about this topic, it's important to us, we vote about this topic and nailing that to them. And I'll leave you with some challenges as I pass the mic to Sarah, we'll first remote and just know our top three is the entire state is the coastal zone. That's a pretty big challenge. We already have the stress put to our environment and the unknown scale obviously is a continued challenge. Great, thank you so much Sarah. So yeah, as you can see a lot of challenges, our entire state is extremely low line. I'm from South Florida, so I'm gonna talk a little bit about South Florida. You guys might know it, from our teachers, Miami Vice, so let's go. So South Florida is extremely low line. This is the NOAA Sea Level Rise Viewer with a three foot projection. All of our major cities will be inundated. The only reason this area is not inundated is because it hasn't been mapped to this particular program yet. So what does that mean? Climate change is real, it's here, it's happening now, and it's worth it I think, right? So here we are investigating a mound following Burma. This tree wasn't actually knocked out of this mound. Workers dragged some trees on top of the mound after the storm so we see cleanup. Not only do the storms have an impact, but also cleanup efforts have an impact as well. And I'll talk a little bit about that when I talk about submerged sites. We also have, this is me documenting a archaic shellman. So this is a 6,000 year old shellman on top. This is a World War II era infrastructure. This is a road. This isn't even a storm. This is just a heavy rain that's destroyed this entire section of site, right? So these are some of the challenges we're facing, like all of you all. In the US we have a little bit of a unique situation. So we're not really seeing a lot of proactivity on the part of the federal or the state government. So one of the great things about living in South Florida, where you can see the effect of climate change every day, is the four Southeast counties, so Brower, Miami-Dade, Monroe, and Palm Beach, that we're not getting help to face the issues we're seeing. So they developed what's called the Quad County Climate Compact or the Regional Climate Action Plan. I encourage everyone to check it out. It's a non-binding agreement between these different counties to do things like help each other out after storms and then there's various adaptation and mitigation measures. So everything from trying to encourage people to fight more to other city infrastructure. It was founded 10 years ago. The original compact did not have any mention of archeology or historical resources. So working with my colleagues, we managed to get archeology included. So what right now, the first two points are identifying and mapping at risk, storing archeological resources, and then establish a ranking for prioritization. So we're in the process of that now. As you all know, it's complicated. So I love your advice on that. Here's what some of the action plan looks like in practice. Here we are monitoring at the local level of Miami-Dade. This is the site along the Olita River. So we have erosion and deposition. The site currently, you can't get in this water because it's full of gross bacteria. So that's another issue we see with trying to access site is basic sanitation issues. This is what racing streets look like if anyone here has not seen that. So this is, I'm standing on the normal street. Here's where the streets gonna be. I'm five, six. All the fire hydrants have to go up. They build little ramps for garbage cans because garbage people can't pick up the cans anymore. It's a major infrastructure product. So this is what's happening in the background down in South Florida. And obviously climate change is not good for underwater sites either. So why are we talking about submerged sites? There's a misconception that if something is already submerged, it's going to be fine as sea levels increase. But obviously that's not true, right? We see basic temperature changes can impact sunlight and ocean life, which then have a negative effect on wrecks and other underwater sites. Maintaining the equilibrium of the site is incredibly important. And also a lot of our wrecks in the Florida Keys are extremely shallow. That's why there are so many of them. The water is very shallow. And that first three meters below the surface is some of the most dynamic in the ocean as you know if you're a diver. So we wanted to engage people with documenting this change to underwater sites as well as the above ground sites. I mean as well as the terrestrial sites. And I was really, I just talked a little bit about how this program became, or how we plugged into the HMS program and in this today we're right. But for me what really necessitated getting this program going was last year after Irma going around to different dive shops in the Keys and dive instructors kindly. Hey, I used to not be able to see this part of the henna bell or I found this anchor, do you all know about it? So Irma was the depositional event which means that a ton of sand was dumped onto our sites, our coastal sites. So the good news is that our coastal sites did rather well during the storm on the East Coast. But that sand was coming from somewhere and where it was coming from was obviously where it had been protecting these submerged sites. So I was like we have to get local people equipped because all the dive community really wanted to help us out there. And it plugged into some of our existing F-Pen programs. So like our Heritage Awareness Dive Center which teaches dive instructors how to document sites and seas which is to teach sports divers how to essentially anomaly jump and alert us to possible new shipwrecks. It was developed in partnership with the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Here's what the monitoring form looks like in addition to what you would typically record on a terrestrial site. We ask people to record things like the presence of coral and seagrass. In the Florida Keys we have a major, we're in the middle of a major coral dial as are many parts of the world. So that is an indicator of climate change, pardon me, as well as seagrass because if you see seagrass migration that can indicate climate change as well. So documenting this as well as things like water temperature, pH, and that type of thing help us figure out what's going on at the site. And essentially how this works is we do a one day workshop where in the morning in the class we're gonna be talking about laws pertaining to cultural resources, how to fill out the swarm and in the afternoon or the next day we actually go out to a wreck. One of the most critical parts of this is site jurisdiction which happens. This is an issue on land as well. Every site, one of the issues we're facing is that different agencies aren't using the same numbering system. So our first priority is to make sure we're dealing with a known wreck or trying to figure out some way of standardizing that. But the plus side is that we're getting many more sites that were previously only listed at the federal level registered with the state. So that's an exciting, unanticipated side outcome for us and there you can see the map there. So what we teach divers to focus on is obviously exposure and stability of objects under water, chemical processes of shipwrecks and monitoring protocol, right? So we don't want people out putting their hands on a shipwreck if they're taking a picture of this site. We wanna teach them how to monitor another basically. We wanna set up a schedule of regular visits to record these environmental conditions and then try and document with photos from fixed positions. Here's some of the physical measurements that I previously discussed. Establishing photo monitoring stations is very important. Some of our federal partners, so NOAA who developed the program with us, you can't actually even use a measuring tape if you do not have an archeological permit because the measuring tape may impact coral and may impact seagrass. Okay, thank you. So you don't want to have any kind of negative impact. And you also wanna keep things consistent so that's why we have the compass out there. Like I said, we're building on these existing F-PAN programs. So this is our Heritage Awareness Diving Seminar for dive instructors. They've been documenting this wreck since 2006. As you can see in 2013, it's been significantly reduced. This is primarily because of looting. People think they see parts of a wreck and they think it's cool and they really wanna bring it back with them for reasons that I have difficulty understanding. But even in 2006, it's missing a lot of marine life, right? We don't see any coral or anything that's going to protect that site from climate change. So here it is in 2013. I was just up there a few months ago. It's not magically improving, it's continuing to deteriorate. So we're trying to build on these existing programs. Our first submerged workshop was with Noah in July of 2018. So far we've monitored 16 sites, which is very exciting. Much like our terrestrial volunteers, we have incredibly eager submerged volunteers to get out and do a bunch of sites and other people who enjoy the day but perhaps aren't continuing to fill out a bunch of forms. We've received some media attention for the program which is great from different outlets like Atlas Obscura, I mean our terrestrial program is featured in The Atlantic. It's been picked up by the Miami Herald. So we're excited that people are interested in this issue and interested to learn more. So I'd just like to thank obviously all the FPN staff, state parks, Bureau of Archaeological Research, Florida product preserves and of course our 432 volunteers. This is one of my favorite quotes. This is one of our volunteers from Southwest Florida. I feel like I'm contributing in a small way to a very rational endeavor. Like why are you doing this? Why are you interested in doing this? So, and of course we'd also like to thank our co-author who can be here. He has his day in Florida, thanks for coming. So thanks to Jeff as well. And if you want to email us, there's our email address, our card spot over there and we're happy to talk after. So, and thank you very much to the organizers for inviting us. Thank you.