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NETWORKS & RESEARCH INSTITUTES/FOUNDATIONS
Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology
Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology
Florida Public Archaeology Network
Historical Ecology and Coastal Archaeology (HECA) Lab, University of Victoria
ICES Working group on the history of fish and fisheries
ICUCH: ICOMOS International Committee on the Underwater Cultural Heritage
RESEARCH PROGRAMMES & PROJECTS
The Underwater World of Living Shipwrecks (NOAA)
ACROSS: Origins of Seafaring to Sahul
GIRT: Gathering Information via Recreational and Technical Scientific Divers
Interreg Europe: Maritime Cultural Heritage
MACHU Project:Managing Cultural Heritage Underwater
MarEA: Maritime Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa
Marine Plastic. The Danish center for research in marine plastic pollution
RESEARCH PROGRAMMES & PROJECTS
NEANIAS (Novel EOSC Services for Emerging Atmosphere, Underwater & Space Challenges)
North Sea Wrecks – Interreg North Sea Region
Oceáno, Patrimonio y Cultura / Ocean, Heritage & Culture
Panorama Blue: Solutions for a Healthy Planet
PERICLES: Maritime Cultural Heritage
Projet SOS Epaves – Save Our Shipwrecks
Sustainable And Resilient Coastal Cities (SARCC) project
PUBLICATIONS
2024
Brennan, M.L. (Ed.). (2024). Threats to Our Ocean Heritage: Potentially Polluting Wrecks. SpringerBriefs in Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57960-8
Brennan, M.L., Delgado, J.P., Jozsef, A. et al. (2023). Site Formation Processes and Pollution Risk Mitigation of World War II Oil Tanker Shipwrecks: Coimbra and Munger T. Ball. J Mari Arch, 18, 321–335. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11457-023-09365-4
Ferrer, N., Toimil, A., Losada, I., & Herrera, G. (2024). Impacts of sea level rise on the cultural heritage of oceanic islands: Modeling twenty-first century scenarios in the Canary archipelago. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2024.2312413
Holtorf, C. (2024). The Climate Heritage Paradox – how rethinking archaeological heritage can address global challenges of climate change. World Archaeology, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2024.2320122
Howland, M. D., & Thompson, V. D. (2024). Modeling the potential impact of storm surge and sea level rise on coastal archaeological heritage: A case study from Georgia. PLOS ONE, 19(2), e0297178. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297178
Jarvis, C. (Ed.). (2024). Threats to Our Ocean Heritage: Bottom Trawling. SpringerBriefs in Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57953-0
Lixinski, L. (2024). Integrating Culture, Heritage, and Identity in Deep Seabed Mining Regulation. AJIL Unbound, 118, 78–82. https://doi.org/10.1017/aju.2024.7
Nik Hariry, N. N. (2024). The law protecting Malaysia’s remarkable underwater heritage: An assessment and suggestions for improvements. Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean Affairs, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/18366503.2024.2310194
Polkinghorne, M., Pearson, N., Van Duivenvoorde, W., Nayati, W., Tahir, Z., Ridwan, N. N. H., Forrest, C., Tan, N. H., Popelka-Filcoff, R., Morton, C., Kowlessar, J., & Staniforth, M. (2024). Reuniting orphaned cargoes: Recovering cultural knowledge from salvaged and dispersed underwater cultural heritage in Southeast Asia. Marine Policy, 163, 106074. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2024.106074
Velentza, K. (2023). Maritime Archaeological Research, Sustainability, and Climate Resilience. European Journal of Archaeology, 26(3), 359–377. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2022.48
2023
Boswell, R. (2023). Legislating marine intangible cultural heritage in South Africa. Law, Democracy & Development, 27, 491–515. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2077-4907/2023/ldd.v27.19 | PDF
Brennan, M.L., Delgado, J.P., Jozsef, A. et al. (2023). Site Formation Processes and Pollution Risk Mitigation of World War II Oil Tanker Shipwrecks: Coimbra and Munger T. Ball. J Mari Arch, 18, 321–335. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11457-023-09365-4
Bulut, N., & Yüceer, H. (2023). A literature review on the management of underwater cultural heritage. Ocean & Coastal Management, 245, 106837. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2023.106837
De Vos, A., Cambronero-Solano, S., Mangubhai, S., Nefdt, L., Woodall, L. C., & Stefanoudis, P. V. (2023). Towards equity and justice in ocean sciences. Npj Ocean Sustainability, 2(1), 25. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44183-023-00028-4
Forrest, M. J., Favoretto, F., Nisa, Z. A., & Aburto-Oropeza, O. (2023). A deeper dive into the blue economy: The role of the diving sector in conservation and sustainable development goals. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10, 1212790. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1212790
Jarvis, C., Ermida, M. P., & Varmer, O. (2023). Threats to Underwater Cultural Heritage from Existing and Future Human Activities. Blue Papers, 2(1), 76–83. https://doi.org/10.58981/bluepapers.2023.1.08
Kuo, C.-C., Ou, C.-H., Chiau, W.-Y., & Lee, C.-S. (2023). Challenges and conflicts in the designation of Taiwan’s underwater cultural heritage protected areas. Marine Policy, 153, 105656. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105656
Lubao, C. B., & Ichumbaki, E. B. (2023). Fishing Songs from Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania: A Case Study of Intangible Maritime Cultural Heritage on the Swahili Coast. Journal of Maritime Archaeology, 18(2), 165–195. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11457-023-09356-5
Nikolaus, J., Westley, K., & Breen, C. (2023). Endangered maritime archaeology in North Africa – the MarEA Project. Libyan Studies, 54, 135–150. https://doi.org/10.1017/lis.2023.4
Pearson, N., & Thompson, B. S. (2023). Saving two fish with one wreck: Maximizing synergies in marine biodiversity conservation and underwater cultural heritage protection. Marine Policy, 152, 105613. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105613
Perez-Alvaro, E. (2023). The contribution of underwater cultural heritage to gender equality: An iconographic analysis of shipwrecks. Journal for Cultural Research, 27(2), 210–223. https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2023.2215991
Perez-Alvaro, E. (2023). Indigenous rights and underwater cultural heritage: (De)constructing international conventions. Maritime Studies, 22(3), 31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-023-00320-6
Rick, Torben C. (2023). Coastal Archaeology and Historical Ecology for a Changing Planet. Journal of Anthropological Research, 79(2), 153–175. https://doi.org/10.1086/724458 | PDF
Rivera-Collazo, I. (2023). Ancient Knowledge, Future Wisdom. In J. A. Whitaker, C. G. Armstrong, & G. Odonne, Climatic and Ecological Change in the Americas (1st ed., pp. 158–175). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003316497-10
Rivera-Collazo, I. C., & Perdikaris, S. (2023). Climate change, site formation, and indigenous use of coastlines in Barbuda. The Holocene, 33(9), 1142–1153. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836231176497
Salaad, A. (2023). Representations of Indian Ocean Ecologies, Heritage and Kinship in Banaadiri Fishing Poems and Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea. Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, 9(2), 132–149. https://doi.org/10.1080/23277408.2022.2124901
Shotton, E., & Prizeman, O. (2023). Documenting Maritime Heritage at Risk: Digital Tools, Communities, and Institutions (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003385097
Strand, M., Rivers, N., & Snow, B. (2023). The complexity of evaluating, categorising and quantifying marine cultural heritage. Marine Policy, 148, 105449. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105449
Trakadas, A., & Karra, A. (2023). Maritime cultural heritage in Morocco: Context and perspectives. Libyan Studies, 54, 151–159. https://doi.org/10.1017/lis.2023.10
Velentza, K. (2023). Maritime Archaeological Research, Sustainability, and Climate Resilience. European Journal of Archaeology, 26(3), 359–377. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2022.48
Westley, K., & Andreou, G. (2023). Coastal Archaeology and Climate Change in the Middle East and North Africa: Contextualizing Global Projections. Near Eastern Archaeology, 86(3), 230–239. https://doi.org/10.1086/725769
2022
Bell, M., & Blue, L. (2022). Analysing the Contributions and Longevity of Community Archaeology in the Context of Maritime Cultural Heritage Projects. Journal of Maritime Archaeology, 17(1), 1–42. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11457-021-09318-9
Castillo Hidalgo, D., & Wélé, M. (2018). Les dockers dakarois. L’organisation du travail dans un port ouest-africain, 1910–1990s. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 52(2), 183–203. https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2018.1483832
Chuku, E. O., Effah, E., Adotey, J., Abrokwah, S., Adade, R., Okyere, I., Aheto, D. W., Kent, K., Osei, I. K., Omogbemi, E. D., Adité, A., Ahoedo, K., Sankoh, S. K., Soro, Y., Wélé, M., Saine, D. F., & Crawford, B. (2022). Spotlighting Women-Led Fisheries Livelihoods Toward Sustainable Coastal Governance: The Estuarine and Mangrove Ecosystem Shellfisheries of West Africa. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 884715. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.884715
Hampel, J.J., Moseley, R.D., Mugge, R.D. et al. (2022). Deep-sea wooden shipwrecks influence sediment microbiome diversity. Limnology and Oceanography, 67(2), 482–497. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12008 | PDF
Kourkoumelis, D., Tourtas, A., Issaris, Y. & Karadimou, E. (2022). Managing Natural and Cultural Heritage on an Underwater Archaeological Site: the Case of Shipwreck “Mentor” at Kythera, Greece. In S. Tanou (Ed.), International Conference Proceedings Mo.Na: MONUMENTS IN NATURE: A CREATIVE CO-EXISTENCE. Athens, 7-9 July 2021. Thessaloniki: European Center for Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments (pp. 263–270). PDF
Petrou, E.L., Kopperl, R., Lepofsky, D. et al. (2022). Ancient DNA reveals phenological diversity of Coast Salish herring harvests over multiple centuries. Scientific Reports, 12, 13512. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-17656-4
Trakadas, A. (2022). The Cultural Heritage Framework Programme: Ensuring a Place for Cultural Heritage’s Contribution to the UN Decade of Ocean Science. Marine Technology Society Journal, 56(3), 110–111. https://doi.org/10.4031/MTSJ.56.3.29
Hillis, D., Gustas, R., Pauly, D. et al. (2022). A palaeothermometer of ancient Indigenous fisheries reveals increases in mean temperature of the catch over five millennia. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 105, 1381–1397. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-022-01243-7
Holly, G., Rey da Silva, A., Henderson, J. et al. (2022). Utilizing Marine Cultural Heritage for the Preservation of Coastal Systems in East Africa. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 10(5), 693. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10050693
Vousdoukas, M.I., Clarke, J., Ranasinghe, R., et al. (2022). African heritage sites threatened as sea-level rise accelerates. Nature Climate Change, 12, 256–262. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01280-1
2021
Carter, M., et al. (2021). Ticking ecological time bombs: Risk characterisation and management of oil polluting World War II shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 164, 112087. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112087
Gambin, T., et al. (2021). Making the Invisible Visible: Underwater Malta—A Virtual Museum for Submerged Cultural Heritage. Remote Sensing, 13, 1558. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13081558
Hamdan, L.J., et al. (2021). Deep-sea shipwrecks represent island-like ecosystems for marine microbiomes. The ISME Journal, 15, 2883–2891. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-021-00978-y
Kenter, J.O., & Martino, S. (Eds.). (2021). Sustainable governance of marine and coastal heritage methods, tools, and approaches. PERICLES / European Commission, Brussels. PDF
Secci, M., Demesticha, S., Jimenez, C., et al. (2021). A LIVING SHIPWRECK: An integrated three-dimensional analysis for the understanding of site formation processes in archaeological shipwreck sites. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 35, 102731. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102731
Trakadas, A. (2021). Maritime Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Role within the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-30. ICH Courier. Intangible Cultural Heritage Courier of Asia and the Pacific 47. Thematic Issue: Maritime Rituals as Community Practices; ICHCAP, Jeonju, Korea, 4–7. PDF
Ounanian, K., Van Tatenhove, J. P. M., Hansen, C. J., Delaney, A. E., Bohnstedt, H., Azzopardi, E., Flannery, W., Toonen, H., Kenter, J. O., Ferguson, L., Kraan, M., Macias, J. V., Lamers, M., Pita, C., Ferreira Da Silva, A. M., Albuquerque, H., Alves, F. L., Mylona, D., & Frangoudes, K. (2021). Conceptualizing coastal and maritime cultural heritage through communities of meaning and participation. Ocean & Coastal Management, 212, 105806. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2021.105806
2020
Benjamin, J. et al. (2020). Aboriginal artefacts on the continental shelf reveal ancient drowned cultural landscapes in northwest Australia. PLoS ONE, 15(7), e0233912. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287490
Caswell, B.A., Klein, E. S., Thurstan, R. H., et al. (2020). Something old, something new: Lessons from history for contemporary blue growth agendas. Fish and Fisheries, 21(4), 774–796. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12460
Dawson, T., et al. (2020). Coastal heritage, global climate change, public engagement, and citizen science. PNAS April 14, 2020, 117(15), 8280–8286. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1912246117
Harkin, D., et al. (2020). Impacts of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage. MCCIP Science Review 2020, 616–641. http://doi.org/10.14465/2020.arc26.che | PDF
Hein, C. (Ed.). (2020). Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage. Past, Present and Future. Springer. Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00268-8
Lehtimâki, M., et al. (2020). Integrating cultural heritage into maritime spatial planning in the Baltic Sea Region. Finnish Heritage Agency: Turku. PDF
Hafner, A., et al. (2020). Heritage Under Water at Risk: Threats, Challenges and Solutions. ICOMOS: Paris. https://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/2488
NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries: Climate Change Impacts Profiles.
Opinion: We need a global movement to transform ocean science for a better world. PNAS April 15, 2020, 117 (18), 9652–9655. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2005485117
Rey da Silva, A. (2020). Sailing the waters of sustainability. Reflections on the future of mariitme cultural heritage protection in the global sea of development. Post-Classical Archaeologies, 10, 107–134. PDF
Ricca, M., et al. (2020). A Sustainable Approach for the Management and Valorization of Underwater Cultural Heritage: New Perspectives from the TECTONIC Project. Sustainability 2020, 12(12), 5000. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12125000
Trakadas, A. (2020). Maritime Living Heritage and the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-30. In W. Park (Ed.), Maritime Living Heritage: Building Sustainable Livelihood and Ecosystems in the Asia-Pacific Region 해양 무형유산: 아태지역의 지속가능한 생활과 생태계 구축. ICH Webinar Series on Maritime ICH 2020 해양 무형유산 웨비나 시리즈. International Information and Networking Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO (ICHCAP): Jeollabuk-do, Korea: 13-19. Watch on YouTube
Turner, P.J., et al. (2020). Memorializing the Middle Passage on the Atlantic seabed in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction. Marine Policy, 122, 104254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104254
UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (October 2020). Decade Implementation Plan Summary. PDF
UNESCO (July–August 2020). Implementation Plan V 2.0, United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021 – 2030. PDF
Varmer, O., et al. (2020). Integrating Underwater Cultural Heritage into the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. In V. Mastone & C. Mires (Eds.), ACUA Underwater Archaeology Proceedings 2020. ACUA; Columbus, OH, 5–13. PDF
2019
Curating Tomorrow (2019). Museums and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Henderson, J (2019). Oceans without History? Marine Cultural Heritage and the Sustainable Development Agenda. Sustainability, 11(18), 5080. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11185080 | PDF
ICOMOS Climate Change and Heritage Working Group (2019). The Future of our Pasts: engaging cultural heritage in climate action. PDF
Lee, Y.-H. (2019). Ocean Cultural Heritage and Ocean Literacy Programs in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-30). Journal of Ocean & Culture, 2, 136–146. PDF
Lubchenco J, Gaines SD (2019). A new narrative for the ocean. Science, 364 (6444), 911. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay2241
Meniketti, M. (2019). Developing Partnerships for the Decade of Ocean Science. Maritime Archaeological and Historical Society News, 30(2): 1–4. PDF
Ryanbinin V., et al. (2019). The UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, 470. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00470
Stori, F. T., Peres, C. M., Turra, A., & Pressey, R. L. (2019). Traditional Ecological Knowledge Supports Ecosystem-Based Management in Disturbed Coastal Marine Social-Ecological Systems. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, 571. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00571
Trakadas A, et al. (2019). The Ocean Decade Heritage Network: integrating cultural heritage within the UN Decade of Ocean Science 2021–2030. Journal of Maritime Archaeology, 14(2), 153–165. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11457-019-09241-0 | PDF
UNESCO Press release (17 May 2019). An Ocean Science Decade to meet the needs of all.
Wele, M., & Alonso Cano, G. (2019). A New Approach to Protecting the Underwater Heritage of Africa’s Atlantic Coast. Submerged Heritage/Potopljena baština, 9, 49–54. Full-text available on ResearchGate
2018
Castillo Hidalgo, D., & Wélé, M. (2018). Les dockers dakarois. L’organisation du travail dans un port ouest-africain, 1910–1990s. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 52(2), 183–203. https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2018.1483832
Firth, A., (2018). Managing Shipwrecks. Honor Frost Foundation, London. PDF
Reimann, et al. (2018). Mediterranean UNESCO World Heritage at risk from coastal flooding and erosion due to sea-level rise. Nature Communications 9, Article number: 4161. http://www.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06645-9 | PDF
UNESCO-IOC (June 2018). Revised Roadmap for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. IOC/EC-LI/2 Annex 3. PDF
2017
Agapiou, A., Lysandrou, V., & Hadjimitsis, D. G. (2017). The Cyprus coastal heritage landscapes within Marine Spatial Planning process. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 23, 28–36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2016.02.016
Cotte, M. (Ed.). (2017). Cultural Heritages of Water: The cultural heritages of water in the Middle East and Maghreb / Les patrimoines culturels de l’eau : Les patrimoines culturels de l’eau au Moyen-Orient et au Maghreb. ICOMOS International. Charenton-le-Pont. https://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/1846
2016
Wright, J. (2016). Maritime Archaeology and Climate Change: An Invitation. Journal of Maritime Archaeology, 11, 255–270. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11457-016-9164-5