Increasing Ocean Literacy and Citizen Science Opportunities for Submerged Cultural Resources in Florida: An Update

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "UN Decade for Ocean Science's Heritage Network: Historical Archaeology's Contribution", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In 2017 the United Nations General Assembly declared the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030). In response, the newly formed Heritage at Risk Committee sponsored its first session in partnership with UNESCO committee in 2018 in New Orleans. In that session Miller and Wright presented a paper with the same title as this presentation that holds as a benchmark of where we were in Florida as we prepared for the Ocean Decade. Some of the programs grew over the six years since the declaration, such as SHA's Heritage at Risk Committee (HARC), Florida Public Archaeology Network's Heritage Monitoring Scouts program, and the newly formed North American Heritage at Risk collaborative. Unforeseen challenges arose, particularly recognition of heritage and past cultures in prioritizing ocean literacy. This paper will provide an update to the 2018 presentation and look forward to what historical archaeology can contribute to the second half of the Ocean Decade.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2024   •
• UN Decade for Ocean Science's Heritage Network: Historical Archaeology's Contribution

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