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Marcy Rockman

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Archaeologist working on climate change, heritage, policy, and the deep time of how we live in this world. Visiting Researcher, Linnaeus University, Sweden | Assoc. Research Prof., University of Maryland, CP | former Fed | liftingrocks.org

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Marcy Rockman @liftingrocks.bsky.social · Dec 10

Just arrived here-first post!

I'm an archaeologist working to link how we manage and study elements of our past with climate science, policy, and adaptation. I speak for memory, connections to place, migration, and how we learn the world around us.

#ClimateHeritage
#LandscapeLearning

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Marcy Rockman @liftingrocks.bsky.social · 8d

❤️ Safe home Dr. Goodall. Your beautiful work has touched us all.

(photo by Hugo van Lawick, via the BBC)

A young white woman wearing a khaki shirt and shorts with blond hair in a pony tail is kneeling and reaching out her right hand toward a young chimpanzee who is reaching toward her hand with his right hand. The chimp has dark brown-black fur and is little, standing just about as tall as the woman's knee. Green leaves line the forest floor between them and some additional trees are visible though blurry behind them.

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UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures @unescochairlnu.bsky.social · 14d

So happy to welcome Marcy Rockman as Visiting Researcher @liftingrocks.bsky.social @linneuni.bsky.social

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#heritagefutures #futuresliteracy #climateheritage

At the intersection of climate change and cultural heritage

Dr Marcy Rockman is a new addition to the UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures. Over the past 15 years, she has focused on climate change and how archaeology can support adaptation. When continuing climat...

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Marcy Rockman @liftingrocks.bsky.social · Aug 18

"Across numerous surveys, a majority of Americans consistently say they want a full, honest, and unvarnished presentation of our nation’s history."

The Organization of American Historians @oah.org · Aug 14

📢 The OAH has issued a Statement on the White House Review of the Smithsonian. Read the statement: ow.ly/hgLR50WGhfQ

Marcy Rockman @liftingrocks.bsky.social · Aug 7

The @nationalacademies.org has just launched a fast-track review of evidence regarding whether greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare. You can submit papers, articles, data, and other comments through August 27 at their main input portal: nas.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?...

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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · Jul 26

If you are having trouble finding National Climate Assessment reports, they are here.

www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: National Climate Assessment links

RealClimate: For some reason, it has become hard to locate the various National Climate Assessments (NCAs) that have been produced by the USGCRP over the decades (and it's pretty hard to find the USGR...

www.realclimate.org

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Marcy Rockman @liftingrocks.bsky.social · Jul 25

"You cannot heal a wound by pretending it does not exist, and we cannot honor Americans' shared history by sweeping it under the rug."

Statement from the National Assoc. of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers on NPS's removal of a sign in Muir Woods with updates to its historical story.

NATHPO July 25th 2025 News Release

The National Association of Historic Preservation Officers (NATHPO) condemns the erasure of Indigenous history as the Department of Interior implements "Secretarial Order 3431 - Restoring Truth and Sa...

www.nathpo.org

Marcy Rockman @liftingrocks.bsky.social · Jul 25

“To me, the biggest irony is that the Trump administration says it wants to tell a more balanced version of history, and that’s exactly what this sign did,” Villano said. “It didn’t remove anything. It just layered in what had been missing.”

Muir Woods exhibit is first casualty of White House directive to erase history

"In order to know your role in history, you need to see yourself in it."

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Marcy Rockman @liftingrocks.bsky.social · Jul 15

I'm one of the federal climate staff who were pushed out under Trump 1. My role was managing cultural heritage under climate change at the NPS. Over the past 7 years, I've been gathering research to help build a better federal system for heritage (and that is better integrated with climate).

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Marcy Rockman @liftingrocks.bsky.social · Jul 13

For a long time, I wanted there to be clear culture & heritage expertise on the State Dept. climate team. Now the team is gone entirely. There are so many dimensions to this loss, it's hard to capture - #ClimateHeritage

The State Department fires remaining employees who worked on climate change

The firings of nearly a dozen people in the State Department’s Office of Global Change include the last U.S. climate negotiators.

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Marcy Rockman @liftingrocks.bsky.social · Jul 10

This is also my concern for tipping points - the social ones that are held off, which pushes us over the physical ones.
www.carbonbrief.org/experts-whic...

Kate RaworthKate Raworth: Senior visiting research associate and lecturer at the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute and co-founder and conceptual lead of Doughnut Economics Action Lab

The tipping point that I fear we will fail to cross is [the social tipping point] around transforming our mindsets. We need to move from the extractive, degenerative economy towards a regenerative one. This all starts within our head and it underlies everything.

[A failure to do this] is what is driving us towards all these [Earth system tipping points].

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Kimberly Wooten @plasticarchaeology.bsky.social · Jul 4

Look what I made! Ask me for a postcard next time you see me.
#ClimateChange
#Heritage
#HeritageAtRisk
#BannedWords

Postcards with climate change and heritage words banned by the Trump administration.

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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · Jul 4

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued an opinion saying that nations have legal obligations to try to reduce the impacts and eliminate the human causes of global warming.

Nations Must Act to Face Climate Crisis, Top Regional Court Says - Inside Climate News

An advisory opinion from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights also concluded that governments have special obligations to protect and support environmental defenders.

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National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) @protectparks.bsky.social · Jul 3

BREAKING: During parks' moment of greatest need, the House voted to finalize the reconciliation bill, which claws back $267 million of previously committed staff funding. Now it will move to the president’s desk. www.npca.org/articles/958...

Ignoring Public Outcry, House Votes for National Park Service Staffing Cuts

"Lawmakers must do better before we become the generation that stands by as our national parks and this American legacy collapse.” - Daniel Hart, NPCA's Director of Clean Energy and Climate Policy

www.npca.org

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NPR @npr.org · Jul 1

The White House took down a website hosting the nation's top report on how climate change is affecting the United States.

The White House took down the nation's top climate report. You can still find it here

The National Climate Assessment is the most influential source of information about climate change in the United States.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · Jun 20

okay and here is my ‘sounds like a shitpost but it’s genuine’ UK heatwave tip: if there is a Saxon or Norman church near you, and it’s open, go sit in it. not gothic, they have too many windows, get you some thick stone walls with some high up tiny windows. they stay cold. and you can just sit there

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Marcy Rockman @liftingrocks.bsky.social · Jun 20

What @aroddick.bsky.social said-

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Marcy Rockman @liftingrocks.bsky.social · Jun 19

This adds to my hope: "Instead, in the nearly 200 submissions NPS received in the first days since the solicitations were posted, visitors implored the administration not to erase U.S. history and praised agency staff for improving their experiences."

‘Censorship:’ See the National Park visitor responses after Trump requested help deleting ‘negative’ signage

The administration asked for help erasing language on park displays that failed to emphasize American grandeur, but visitors have not identified any examples.

www.govexec.com

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · Jun 19

"Scotland’s Solway Firth is our first Landscape Connections project ...
It will use the grant to plan a ‘whole seascape approach’ to protecting and developing the coast’s natural and cultural heritage."
#coastalhistory #environmentalhumanities

www.heritagefund.org.uk/news/scotlan...

Scotland’s Solway Firth is our first Landscape Connections project

Led by Dumfries and Galloway Council, this long term, large-scale project is part of our 10-year strategic initiative supporting the UK’s world-class landscapes.

www.heritagefund.org.uk

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National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) @protectparks.bsky.social · Jun 12

The Antiquities Act gives the president power to CREATE national monuments. Not ERASE them. That is illegal. Sign your name at npca.org/protectmonuments

Secretary Burgum must protect our monuments.

We are on the verge of what could be the largest rollback of protections for national parks and monuments in U.S. history. By taking action today, you can support our parks, monuments, and communities...

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Marcy Rockman @liftingrocks.bsky.social · Jun 11

DOJ opinion from May 27 sets a foundation for undoing protections of the 1906 Antiquities Act, potentially very broadly. This is not good news for public lands, and cultural and natural heritage, Tribal places, and marine areas now held as national monuments.

www.justice.gov/olc/media/14...

For the reasons discussed above, we conclude that the Antiquities Act permits the President to alter a prior declaration of a national monument, including by finding that the “landmarks,” “structures,” or “objects” identified in the prior declaration either never were or no longer are deserving of the Act’s protections. 54 U.S.C. § 320301(a). Because Con-gress directed that the “parcels of land” reserved in connection with such a monument be “confined to the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the objects to be protected,” id. § 320301(b), this can have the effect of eliminating entirely the parcel previously associated with a national monument. Castle Pinckney’s contrary conclusion was wrong, and it can no longer be relied upon.

Marcy Rockman @liftingrocks.bsky.social · Jun 9

Some short powerful letters from students on what studying history now is teaching them-

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Opinion | 13 students on what studying history taught them about the present

Progress can be undone. There’s plenty we don’t know. But change is possible.

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Marcy Rockman @liftingrocks.bsky.social · Jun 4

The wonderful writer @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social will be in DC tomorrow (6/5, 7pm ET) to talk about his new book! So looking forward to this.

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Robert MacFarlane — Is a River Alive? - with Ross Andersen — at Conn Ave

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Marcy Rockman @liftingrocks.bsky.social · Jun 3

This sounds so good! I wish I could be a fly on the wall-

Marcy Rockman @liftingrocks.bsky.social · Jun 3

The phrase "national parks" is most often linked to nature and scenery such as at Yellowstone and Yosemite. But ca. 2/3 of all national parks were established to recognize history and culture (and all parks hold these).

Hands Off Our History

The president’s shameful “skinny budget” would decimate national parks. NPCA explains why we must continue to defend the integrity of our historic sites.

www.npca.org

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Marcy Rockman @liftingrocks.bsky.social · May 27

Adding to this article to note that all three legs of US archaeology are being cut:
- loss of federal staff, care of federal lands
- cuts of funding, university research & elsewhere
- challenges to NEPA & archaeology as part of other environmental compliance

In the U.S., Archaeology Stares Down an Uncertain Future

www.nytimes.com

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