by Victoria Ingles, Principal Curator (Portsmouth), National Museum of the Royal Navy The current special exhibition at our Portsmouth Historic Dockyard site, open until spring 2025, highlights the Royal Navy’s involvement within oceanographic research both historically and today. In 1872, HMS Challenger set sail from Portsmouth to embark on the scientific study of the ocean.… Read More Worlds Beneath the Waves Exhibition
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
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
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!
Call for Applications: Research or Conference Travel Grant in the field of the History of Oceanography The International Commission for the History of Oceanography (ICHO) is offering funding for research or conference travel related to the history of ocean sciences or ocean histories. The grant can be used to visit an archive, museum, or library… Read More Call for applications for ICHO fellowships
by Aster Hoving During my PhD research, I was lucky enough to receive a fellowship from The International Commission of the History of Oceanography (ICHO) for my research stay in Japan in the spring of 2024. My dissertation traces the mediation and extraction of hydrothermal vents, tides, waves, and upwelling across contemporary art practices, climate… Read More Ocean Energies in Japan
by Maja Björk Lindahl After a four-year transformation, the Maritime Museum and Aquarium in Gothenburg resurfaced in December 2022. The building from the 1930s got a whole new underground floor with bigger and more aquariums, a new entrance, reception and boutique, a new café, four new permanent exhibitions and a gallery for temporary exhibitions, and… Read More A Deep Dive into the Collections and the Oceans
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
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