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NETWORKS & RESEARCH INSTITUTES/FOUNDATIONS

Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology

Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology

 CHERISH: Creating opportunities for regional growth through promoting Cultural HERitage of fISHing communities in Europe

CHN: Climate Heritage Network

Edinburgh Marine Archaeology

 Florida Public Archaeology Network

Historical Ecology and Coastal Archaeology (HECA) Lab, University of Victoria

Honor Frost Foundation

ICES Working group on the history of fish and fisheries

ICUCH: ICOMOS International Committee on the Underwater Cultural Heritage

Major Projects Foundation

 MARE: Centre for Maritime Research

Marine Social Sciences Network

Maritime Archaeology Trust

Nautical Archaeology Society

Oceans Past Initiative

Our World Heritage

Rising from the Depths Network

SCAPE Trust (Scotland)

Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology

UNESCO UCH Accredited Non-Governmental Organizations

UNESCO UNITWIN Underwater Archaeology Network

RESEARCH PROGRAMMES & PROJECTS

The Underwater World of Living Shipwrecks (NOAA)

Across: Origins of Seafaring to Sahul

Bermuda 100 Challenge

CREAMARE Project

Connecting the Culm

GIRT: Gathering Information via Recreational and Technical Scientific Divers

iMARE Culture: Advanced VR, iMmersive serious games and Augmented REality as tools to raise awareness and access to European underwater CULTURal heritagE

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

NEANIAS (Novel EOSC Services for Emerging Atmosphere, Underwater & Space Challenges)

RESEARCH PROGRAMMES & PROJECTS

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

Re-imagining the use of traditional watercraft in the Aegean Sea for a sustainable environment and economy

REMAINS of Greenland: REsearch and Management of Archaeological sites IN a changing environment and Society

Sustainable And Resilient Coastal Cities (SARCC) project

SCAPE: Scotland’s Coastal Heritage at Risk

U-boat Project Wales 1914-18

PUBLICATIONS

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

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

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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

Kenter, J.O., & Martino, S. (Eds.). (2021). Sustainable governance of marine and coastal heritage methods, tools, and approaches. PERICLES / European Commission, Brussels.

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

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

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.

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

Lehtimâki, M., et al. (2020). Integrating cultural heritage into maritime spatial planning in the Baltic Sea Region. Finnish Heritage Agency: Turku.

Hafner, A., et al. (2020). Heritage Under Water at Risk: Threats, Challenges and Solutions. ICOMOS: Paris.

Turner, P.J., et al. (2020). Memorializing the Middle Passage on the Atlantic seabed in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction. Marine Policy, 122, 104254.

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.

US National Marine Sanctuaries Climate Change Impacts Profiles.

Decade Implementation Plan Summary (October 2020).

UNESCO (July–August 2020). Implementation Plan V 2.0, United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021 – 2030.

PUBLICATIONS

Hein, C. (Ed.). (2020). Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage. Past, Present and Future. Springer. Cham.

Dawson, T., et al. (2020). Coastal heritage, global climate change, public engagement, and citizen science. PNAS April 14, 2020, 117(15), 8280–8286.

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.0233912

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.

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.

 Pendleton, L., K. Evans, & M. Visbeck (2020). 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

Harkin, D., et al. (2020). Impacts of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage. MCCIP Science Review 2020, 616–641.

Meniketti, M. (2019). Developing Partnerships for the Decade of Ocean Science. Maritime Archaeological and Historical Society News, 30(2): 1–4.

 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.

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.

Trakadas, A., et al. (2019). La Red de Patrimonio del Decenio del Océano: Integrando el Patrimonio Cultural en el Decenio de las Naciones Unidas de las Ciencias Oceánicas 2021–2030. Journal of Maritime Archaeology, 14(2), 153–165.

Henderson, J (2019). Oceans without History? Marine Cultural Heritage and the Sustainable Development Agenda. Sustainability 2019, 11, 5080.

Ryanbinin V, et al. (2019). The UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, 470.

Lubchenco J, Gaines SD (2019). A new narrative for the ocean. Science, 364 (6444), 911.

Curating Tomorrow (2019). Museums and the Sustainable Development Goals.

ICOMOS Climate Change and Heritage Working Group (2019). The Future of our Pasts: engaging cultural heritage in climate action.

UNESCO Press release (17 May 2019). An Ocean Science Decade to meet the needs of all.

UNESCO (June 2019). Summary Report of the First Global Planning Meeting: UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development: 13–15 May 2019, National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen. Decade Reports and Documents No.4.

Firth, A., (2018). Managing Shipwrecks. Honor Frost Foundation, London.

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

UNESCO-IOC (June 2018). Revised Roadmap for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. IOC/EC-LI/2 Annex 3.

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.

Wright, J. (2016). Maritime Archaeology and Climate Change: An Invitation. Journal of Maritime Archaeology, 11, 255–270.

Willems, W.J.H., & van Schaik. H.P.J. (2015). Water & Heritage. Material, conceptual and spiritual connections. ICOMOS Netherlands.

UN, IOC, UNESCO

UN:

UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Knowledge Platform

1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea

IOC/UNESCO:


Decade Implementation Plan Summary (October 2020)

Latest monthly IOC news

UN, IOC, UNESCO

2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage

The Scientific and Technical Advisory Body to the UNESCO 2001 Convention

UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030), 1st Global Planning Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark

UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030)