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Tidally United Summit 2023
Rising sea levels and other environmental changes have shaped our past and will continue to impact our future.
Join us in Cape Canaveral on December 5-7, 2023, for the 2023 Tidally United Summit, an informational think-tank dedicated to raising awareness and exploring future-ready solutions to protect historical sites and other significant cultural resources from climate-related threats.
Preliminary Program
December 5 – Tour Day
9:30 am – 12 pm – Cape Canaveral Lighthouse and Space Force Station Tour
2:30 pm – Airboat Tour offering at Lone Cabbage Fish Camp
5:30 pm – Science Café at Lone Cabbage Cabbage Fish Camp
December 6 – Summit Day
8:30 am – Registration
9 – 11:30 am – Presentations/Panels
12 – 1:30 pm – Lunch and Keynote presentation by Dr. Marcy Rockman
2 – 5 pm – Presentations/Panels
December 7 – Workshop Day
9 am – 11 am – Shoreline Monitoring Workshop at the Manatee Sanctuary Park
12 am – 1:30 pm – Guided Walk at Enchanted Forest
Registration
General registration to the 2023 Tidally United Summit is $50 and student registration is $20. Registration to the summit includes lunch on December 6th and access to all Tidally United Summit events, except for the Airboat Tour at Lone Cabbage Fish Camp which incurs an additional cost. For the events included in your registration, we ask that you please let us know on the registration form which you plan to attend to help us with event planning. See the descriptions of Summit events below for more details.
Call for Papers:
The Call for Papers is now closed.
Tidally United Summit 2023 Event Summaries
Cape Canaveral Lighthouse and Space Force Station Tour (included with registration)
December 5th – 9:30 am – 12 pm
Join us as we enter the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for a 2-hour tour of the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse and Museum and Launch Complex 26, where America’s first satellite was launched. See the beautiful view of Cape Canaveral from the top of the lighthouse, the oldest standing structure on the Cape! You will also visit the Hangar C Annex, where you can see restored missiles, rockets, and space capsules. Pre-registration is required. *Due to Department of Defense restrictions, only U.S. Citizens are allowed to enter the Space Force Station and tour the lighthouse. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Airboat Tour offering at Lone Cabbage Fish Camp
December 5th – 2:30 pm
Join us at the Lone Cabbage Fish Camp for a 30-minute airboat ride along the scenic St. Johns River. Take in the natural cypress swamp with breathtaking views and see local wildlife. Safety gear provided. Conference registrants can ride the airboats between 2 and 4 pm. Cost is $30 per adult and pre-registration is required.
Science Café at Lone Cabbage Fish Camp (included with registration)
December 5th – 5:30 PM
Join us for a night of fun, fish, and science at the Lone Cabbage Fish Camp. We’ll hear from Charlie Venuto, a part time environmental science professor at the American Public University System, about the history of the Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge. The Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge has served as a reliable stopover and destination for migratory birds on the east coast of Florida for centuries. The >140,000 acre refuge was created in 1963 as a result of the efforts from Allan Cruickshank, a National Audubon Society photographer and Brevard resident, and some wise decisions by NASA. The “conservation culture” of the Kennedy Administration provided the framework for the origins of this unique refuge.
This event is part of our Tidally United Summit but is free and open to the public. Food and beverages will be available for purchase at the Fish Camp.
Shoreline Monitoring Workshop at the Manatee Sanctuary Park (included with registration)
December 7th – 9 – 11 am
Join us for a 2-hour shoreline monitoring workshop at the Manatee Sanctuary Park where you will get hands-on experience identifying and documenting at-risk shorelines and the threats they face.
Guided Walk at Enchanted Forest (included with registration)
December 7th – 12 – 1:30 pm
Join us on a guided hike through the Enchanted Forest Sanctuary as the grand finale to the 2023 Tidally United Summit. Walk through five natural habitats and hope to see some of Florida’s vast wildlife.
Please join us during our 2023 Tidally United Summit Keynote Presentation where Dr. Marcy Rockman will present Memory, Climate, and Rockets; Thoughts on Heritage and Policy for a Changing World from the Space Coast.
Abstract
In 2018, the archaeologist for the U.S. Dept. of Defense responsible for Cape Canaveral wrote to Marcy Rockman, then-lead for climate and cultural resources at the National Park Service, saying that a vulnerability assessment was showing that the early space program launch complexes would erode into the Atlantic in 15-20 years. With this he asked, “how do I let them go?” Shortly thereafter, at a workshop in England, many participants shared with Rockman their experiences with and passion for those launch complexes and the stories and outcomes of what they created. With this story as a starting point, this keynote will explore connections and disconnections of how we manage places and tangible heritage in relation to climate change and how we hear and manage memory, care, and story. It will ask, what has our existing heritage policy created and what new policies and structures can we see we need?
Bio
Marcy Rockman is an archaeologist with experience in national and international climate change policy. Her research focus is landscape learning, which explores how humans gather, remember, and share environmental information, and she’s used this to address situations as diverse as cultural resource management in the American West and homeland security risk communication in Washington, DC. From 2011-2018 she served with the US National Park Service (NPS) as the inaugural Climate Change Adaptation Coordinator for Cultural Resources. Recently, she’s held multiple roles in international climate heritage and US scale climate science and policy. Major projects in these spaces include working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), coordinating with ICCROM a conference on climate, heritage, and conflict and peace-building, and coordinating climate change hearings and briefings with the U.S. Congress.
Currently, Marcy is Director/Principal of her company Lifting Rocks – Climate and Heritage Consulting and Associate Research Professor with the Dept. of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Arizona, and B.Sc. in Geology from the College of William and Mary.
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