A summary of the conference – On April 5-6, 2021, at the Climate Change and Maritime Heritage: Interdisciplinary Perspectives conference, researchers presented the impacts of climate change on submerged archaeological resources through an interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches and provided recommendations for future action (conference programme here). Many coastal, terrestrial, and submerged archaeological sites are at […]

Intentionally Transformational: A Conversation on Inclusion in the UN Decade of Ocean Science at the Society for Historical Archaeology’s Conference, 2021 By David Ball, Amanda M. Evans, Athena Trakadas & Antony Firth (organisers), on behalf of the panel At the Society for Historical Archaeology’s Virtual Annual Meeting January 6-9, 2021, a panel discussion, Intentionally Transformational: […]

Maritime Living Heritage in the ICHCAP Webinar By Athena Trakadas, co-Chair ODHN On October 29-30, 2020, the International Information and Networking Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia Pacific Region under the Auspices of UNESCO (ICHCAP) and the UNESCO Apia office hosted the webinar: “Maritime Living Heritage: Building Sustainable Livelihood and Ecosystems in the […]

Incorporating Social Science into the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development A session held at theInternational Symposium for Society & Resource Management (ISSRM) 2020 Virtual Conference July 20, 2020 By Taylor Goelz, Knauss Marine Policy Fellow, NOAA Research Panelists: Steven Scyphers – Northeastern University Athena Trakadas – National Museum of Denmark / Ocean […]

Oceans Past 2020: OPVIII Virtual Conference  Lightning Talk on Ocean Decade Heritage Network (ODHN) 14 May 2020 By Antony Firth, Co-chair, ODHN Script of talk presented at the workshop: The UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-30 is a major initiative intended to stimulate marine sciences to inform sustainability, which is framed in […]

BalticRIM   Blue Growth Workshop: The contribution of cultural heritage to the Ocean Decade 26 May 2020 By Antony Firth, Co-chair, ODHN Script of talk presented at the workshop:  Introduction The relationship between cultural heritage and the Ocean Decade has many aspects. Today’s workshop focuses on Blue Growth, so I will concentrate on the relationship between […]

On 8 June 2020, the webinar “The Ocean’s Past – Underwater Archaeology and Ocean Science” was organized by UNESCO’s Scientific and Technical Advisory Body to the 2001 Convention, the Ocean Decade Heritage Network, and Alexandria University (Egypt) in preparation of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021 – 2030). Over 300 viewers […]

ODHN at the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020 – San Diego, USA, February 2020 By Athena Trakadas (ODHN) & Amy Gusick (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) A Town Hall, The human dimension: integrating cultural heritage into the Decade of Ocean Science, was recently organised by ODHN at the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020 (February 16-21, […]