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De Wolff, Kim. Synthetic Frontiers: Ocean Plastic and the Persistence of Trash Islands. : MIT Press, 2025. x + 197 pp. $55.00 (paper), ISBN 9780262553681. Reviewed by Jennifer Schell (University of Alaska Fairbanks) Published on H-Environment (May, 2026) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University) Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=62466

The DHST Commission on the History of Oceanography (ICHO) is pleased to announce the winner of its 2026 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize. The award aims to provide recognition …

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Scientists started talking about clam gardens in the 90s – but nations along the west coast built and maintained these beaches for thousands of years before. Rosanna speaks with Skye Augustine about t...

For doctoral dissertations completed and filed between 16 April 2024 and 15 April 2026.

The U.S. shift to domestic seabed mining highlights weak international protections, flawed International Seabed Authority (ISA) oversight, and growing calls for reform.

This article argues that the mid-twentieth-century acceptance of continental drift cannot be understood solely as the result of new geophysical eviden…

A marine microbiologist shares the joy and dangers of exploring the deep sea

In a shift that is reshaping entire ecosystems, the open oceans are letting less light in. We don't fully understand the consequences yet, but there is still hope, says oceanographer Tim Smyth

We are seeking case studies from the ancient world to the present that focus on learned and scholarly forms of weather prediction (rather than every day or informal beliefs), including but not limited...

ALT: a large squid is swimming in the dark water

As a kid, I loved the 1980s aquatic adventure show Danger Bay. True to the TV show’s name, danger was always lurking at the Vancouver Aquarium, where the show was set.

Hoffmann, Richard C.. The Catch: An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries. : Studies in Environment and History Series. Cambridge University Press, 2023. 350 pp. $135.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781108845465.$44.99 (e-book), ISBN 9781108955898.$44.99 (paper), ISBN 9781108958202. Reviewed by Cade Meinel (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Published on H-Oceans (March, 2026) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

Key takeaways– Giant kelp forests, an icon of the San Diego coastline, are in retreat as a result of climate change– Off the coast, water temperature has not dropped to traditional lows since the 2015...

A conference to support emerging scholars who wish to share their work in a supportive environment and build relations with other maritime historians

Internationale Forschungsexpeditionen und die Vermessung des Meeresbodens im Südlichen Ozean im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert was published in Räume in der Internationalen Geschichte on page 203.

Museum specimens collected during a 1907 marine expedition reveal loss of genetic diversity in the Philippines

In the University of New England’s annual Connections Lecture hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences on Oct. 9, ocean historian Helen M. Rozwadowski’s, Ph.D., explained how history can be a powerf...

Stanford University invites applications for appointment at the assistant professor level in the Oceans Department, in the Stanford Doerr School of...

Seas are repetitive creatures, working in cycles of tides, migration and climate change, which is normally to say the...

Tsleil-Waututh’s Michelle George called the study "scientific proof of what my ancestors and family have been saying for generations.”

The U.S. still has an advantage on the waves, but ocean science needs more — not less — investment.

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Midwest Medieval History Conference October 24 & 25, 2025 at University of Notre Dame Call for Papers Water, Rivers, and the Environment in the Middle Ages Keynote speaker: Ellen F. Arnold, Ph.…

In this book, Stacy Alaimo explores the influence of the newfound human intimacy with the deep sea might have on our broader relationship to the nonhuman world.