By Eric L. Mills Gary Weir and I, after many close professional contacts beginning in 1993 when we met at the ICHO-V congress in La Jolla, lost contact for a time as our career and personal paths diverged. We renewed contact early in 2022, when he wrote: “Yes, I am alive and well and at… Read More Gary Weir (1951-2025). A Personal Appreciation
The DHST Commission on the History of Oceanography (ICHO) is pleased to announce the winner of its 2025 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize. The award aims to provide recognition and support for early career scholars who are developing ocean history through their scholarship. Papers must be historical, but in recognition that many disciplines engage… Read More The 2025 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History Winner Announcement
The DHST Commission on the History of Oceanography (ICHO) announces the annual Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize for outstanding papers addressing some aspect of ocean history, which for the purposes of this prize should include attention to knowledge creation or the history of ocean knowledge, broadly construed. The award aims to provide recognition and… Read More CFP Announcement: 2025 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History
Dear Colleagues, Please join us 21-25 October 2024 for a collaborative cleaning and updating of ICHO’s Zotero library. The event is scheduled for the entire week so that you can participate whenever you have time available and from wherever you are located. In 2022 members and friends of ICHO gathered digitally for the first Zotero… Read More Join us for Zotero Fest 2024!
The DHST Commission on the History of Oceanography (ICHO) is pleased to announce the winner of its inaugural Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize. The award aims to provide recognition and support for early career scholars who are developing ocean history through their scholarship. Papers must be historical, but in recognition that many disciplines engage… Read More Launched! The Inaugural Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History Winner Announcement
The DHST Commission on the History of Oceanography (ICHO) announces its Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize for outstanding papers addressing some aspect of ocean history, which for the purposes of this prize should include attention to knowledge creation or the history of ocean knowledge, broadly construed. The award aims to provide recognition and support… Read More CFP Announcement: 2024 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History
By Katrin Kleemann and Nils Theinert In 1962, a dredge engineer discovered a medieval cog whilst working in the harbor basin in the city of Bremen in northern Germany. Its discovery prompted the foundation of the German Maritime Museum (DSM) in 1971. The museum opened its doors to visitors in 1975. It is the German… Read More The Library and Collections at the German Maritime Museum / Leibniz Institute for Maritime History in Bremerhaven
The International Commission of the History of Oceanography (ICHO) invites nominations, including self-nominations, to fill one of four Vice-President positions of the commission that has recently become vacant. ICHO is a global body devoted to linking scholars, writers, and teachers interested in the history of the ocean sciences, broadly defined. We are a commission of the International Union of History and… Read More Call for applications for the position of Vice-President of ICHO
By Katherine Sinclair On November 17, 2022, in the ornate “Venetian Room” of the Drake Hotel in Chicago, historians of oceans and of oceanography gathered for the “Oceans in Depth: Knowledge, Resource, Representations” round table as occasional flakes of snow fell on the Lake Michigan beaches outside the window. Organized by Helen Rozwadowski and Katharine… Read More ICHO at the History of Science Society Conference, November 2022
By Karen Urbec (Institution Archivist, MBLWHOI Library) The Data Library and Archives of the MBLWHOI (Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Library is the intellectual heart of the Woods Hole scientific community. Marine scientists have been based here for their explorations of the ocean since the mid-1800s and the Library has been here supporting their… Read More CLIR Recordings at Risk Digitization Project at MBLWHOI Library
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