by Rupert Baker The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world’s most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. Founded in 1660 by a group of twelve ‘natural philosophers’ including Christopher Wren and Robert Boyle, the Society is now located in Carlton House Terrace, London. Since its inception,… Read More The Royal Society Seabed Selection
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
By Dr Isabelle Gapp, Postdoctoral Fellow University of Toronto Late in 2022, I was fortunate to visit the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives at the Archives of Manitoba in Winnipeg with the support of an ICHO research travel fellowship. Alongside several visits to Qaumajuq at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, with rich Arctic visual and material culture… Read More ICHO Research Fellowship – Hudson Bay Company Archives and the RMS Nascopie
By Dr Erika Jones, Curator of Navigation and Oceanography, and Aimee Mook, Lloyds Register Foundation Assistant Curator of Contemporary Maritime The National Maritime Museum, in Greenwich, London is one of the largest maritime museums in the world. It is part of Royal Museums Greenwich which includes the Cutty Sark, the Royal Observatory, the Queen’s House,… Read More Ocean treasures of the National Maritime Museum, London
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
By Maureen Nolan & Lisa Oberg The Coast Salish peoples have called the Pacific Northwest home from time immemorial, their history and culture integrally linked with the region’s waterways. European explorations of the northeastern Pacific Ocean made by Sir Francis Drake in the 16th century and many others, including the voyages of Captains James Cook… Read More Stories from the Salish Sea: Special Collections at the University of Washington
Author: Laura Kissel, polar curator at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Archival Program Welcome to Ohio! The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Archival Program, aka the Polar Archives, is a collaborative venture of the Ohio State University Libraries and the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center. The Polar Archives was formally established… Read More Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Archival Program: Oral History Collection
A note from ICHO member Dr. Katharine Anderson: “Lyell’s great theoretical contributions to geology centered on a concept of the relationship of land and seas over time, and he memorably urged a sea-centered viewpoint in the first volume of his Principles of Geology (1830). There he wrote of the “habitual unconsciousness” of our terrestrial species:… Read More Save Charles Lyell’s Notebooks
In the past few weeks several Canadian newspapers have covered the story of the ongoing closure and dismantling of many of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) libraries. The Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans has argued that this “library consolidation” program will save taxpayer money by closing rarely visited facilities and providing access to… Read More On the loss of historical data and the closure of the DFO libraries
History of Oceanography 