“But underwater archaeology is already underwater…” Considering Climate Change Impacts on Underwater Archaeological Heritage  By: Nicole Grinnan, M.A., RPA, Florida Public Archaeology Network Very frequently, I talk to public audiences around the state of Florida about underwater archaeology. Topics range from how underwater archaeologists do their jobs to what kinds of sites are considered underwater...Read More

By Lindsey Cochran, Ph.D. University of Georgia, Laboratory of Archaeology Emotionally disheartening article ahead. Beware. Scientists continue to improve models that predict both the mechanism and result of climate changes, and sadly each prediction is more dire than the last. Modeling predictions that used to assume a 1m global sea level rise (GMSLR) now anticipate...Read More

William B. Lees, PhD, RPA Executive Director, Florida Public Archaeology Network (fpan.us) King tides in Miami and St. Augustine, Category 5 Hurricane Michael on the Gulf Coast, and almost daily stories of the risk to coastal infrastructure due to sea level rise have awoken Floridians to our climate crisis and climate future. Florida archaeologists know...Read More

Jennifer E. Jones, PhD East Carolina University The archaeological remains of ships in the beach zone are part of a complex and dynamic system, being periodically exposed and reburied, they vary between being both visible and frequently forgotten features of the physical and cultural coastal landscape. These limited and nonrenewable resources play an important informational...Read More

Written by: Allyson Ropp Cultural heritage is found on land and under the sea. Like those on land, the ones under the waves are feeling the impacts of changing climate. As the climate continues to change, the waters are not only rising. But they are also warming. This warming is creating stronger hurricanes, as seen by...Read More

Impact of climate change on coastal cultural resources in Brunswick County, NC Coastal cultural resources provide crucial links to the past and are important centerpieces for interwoven maritime heritage community narratives, and are valuable cultural resources. Similar to many other places in the world, in southeastern NC, natural and environmental factors have caused damages to,...Read More

Disappearing Heritage   Haley Streuding Coastal Environments, Inc.               As a member of the Society of Historical Archaeology’s newly-formed Heritage at Risk Committee, I am interested in creating a dialogue – or at least being a part of the dialogue – on how climate change affects archaeological sites around the country, and what we...Read More

Hello all.  It’s my pleasure to introduce the newly-formed Heritage at Risk Committee (HARC). [ Our first meeting was held during SHA conference in New Orleans last month, after the committee was established by Past President Joe Joseph at the mid-year meeting in June.  We were delighted to see 24 members in attendance – almost...Read More