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Tidally United Summit 2025
Date: July 31, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM EDT
Location: Florida Keys Eco-Discovery Center, 35 Quay Rd, Key West, FL 33040
Rising sea levels and other environmental changes have shaped our past and will continue to impact our future.
Tidally United is a biennial summit, designed to be 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.
The 2025 Tidally United Summit will be on July 31st, 2025, at the Florida Keys Eco-Discovery Center in Key West!
REGISTRATION
General registration to the 2025 Tidally United Summit is $50 and student registration is $15. This the registration button link below allows you to register to the meeting, submit an abstract, and order lunch all in one! 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.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Vibeke Vandrup Martens. Her keynote address is “Permafrost Thaw and Coastal Erosion Causing Environmental Impacts on Historic Preservation: A Northwest European View on Past, Present and Future.”
Bio
Dr. Vibeke Vandrup Martens is an archaeologist and a researcher (Forsker II) and has worked at NIKU since 2006.
Her research focuses on preservation conditions for archaeological deposits, geoarchaeology and in situ preservation. She has a PhD in geoarchaeology from the VU University of Amsterdam, and she has worked in the research projects ”Archaeological Deposits in a Changing Climate. In Situ Preservation of Farm Mounds in Northern Norway” (InSituFarms) and “In Situ Site Preservation of Archaeological Remains in the Unsaturated Zone” (In Situ SIS). Martens carries out environmental monitoring projects both within and outside the urban areas and conducts archaeological excavations in the medieval towns.
Her present work focus is the impact of climate change on preservation conditions for cultural heritage, leading the interdisciplinary research project CULTCOAST (financed by the MILJØFORSK environmental research programme at the Research Council of Norway).
Martens has published papers on deposit monitoring, rural medieval settlements and on medieval pottery. She is an active participant at international archaeological conferences, and she holds a position in the editorial board of Collegium Medievale.
Martens holds master’s degrees in medieval archaeology from the University of Lund (Sweden) and Aarhus University (Denmark). Her work experience as an archaeologist, curator and researcher comes from the Museum of Cultural History in Lund, the Copenhagen City Museum, the Government of Åland, the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo and Vestfold County Archeology.