Oceans Past Initiative
@oceans_past
Oceans Past X Conference 25-28 June 2024 at the University of Exeter, Penryn, UK.
Join our team! 📢We have a #VACANCY for a Science Professional Officer! 🌊You will play a critical role in shaping ICES science priorities, supporting management advice -working with every level of ICES community. 🙋♀️Interested? Apply by 29 September! ices.dk/about-ICES/Job…
🌊Celebrating a century of marine science🎉 ICES Journal of Marine Science will turn 100 in 2026! To mark this milestone, articles are invited for a special themed set that will explore the past, present & future of marine science. Find all the ℹ here 👉 ices.dk/news-and-event…
🏢✨Interested in hosting the next Oceans Past XI Conference in 2026? Submit your expression of interest by December 6th to [email protected] #Oceanspast #conference

Our October newsletter, Oceans Past News, has just gone out! Get in touch with us if you're keen to be added to our mailing list to stay up to date on current projects and research in marine history! ⚓⛵🎣🐟🦈🐋🐧
'Read all about it!' NEW paper from an international, interdisciplinary team in @naturesustainab reveals the vast extent of past European native oyster reef ecosystems nature.com/articles/s4189… @NORA_Europe @ConvexSeascape @ERC_Research @ExeterMarine #openaccess #historicalecology
I'm really happy to share this new paper: "Pathways for integrating historical information into fisheries management" In @FishFishJournal, with @kt_cramer and other lovely co-authors brought together by a @CnsrvPaleoNetwk working group onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/fa…
ONE WEEK LEFT TO VOTE!
🏳️Voting for the next Oceans Past Initiative's Steering Committee is open for a bit shy of two more weeks! If you are **already** a member and have not received your ballot, please be in touch so we can confirm your current email address!🏳️
2nd job alert of the week! 🐟📜 Research assistant needed for exciting marine historical ecology/marine environmental history project @sos_bangor_uni shorturl.at/7yDIY Come & join us! Pls RT
🏳️Voting for the next Oceans Past Initiative's Steering Committee is open for a bit shy of two more weeks! If you are **already** a member and have not received your ballot, please be in touch so we can confirm your current email address!🏳️
*Job alert-postdoc* 🐟📜 Historian/humanities researcher interested in applying your skills to marine ecosystem management? Envtl scientist/marine biologist interested in historical sources ? Come and join our cross-disciplinary project! pls RT! shorturl.at/RDpTu
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The @oceans_past quarterly Newsletter just went out and on top of our usual content, we also have a summary of the OPX Conference last month if you were unable to attend! If you're not on the mailing list (or are unsure if you are) please get in touch with me! 🐟⛵🎣🐋
The @oceans_past quarterly Newsletter just went out and on top of our usual content, we also have a summary of the OPX Conference last month if you were unable to attend! If you're not on the mailing list (or are unsure if you are) please get in touch with me! 🐟⛵🎣🐋
How can we achieve #biodiversity policy aims like EU Nature Restoration law, if we don't understand past states or long-term change? New paper drawing on historical sources shorturl.at/T0i5V
Still buzzing after a fantastic @oceans_past conference last week. Many excellent and thought provoking presentations from our interdisciplinary research community, and wonderful company. Thank you to all delegates, presenters, sponsors @ICES_ASC & host @UniExeCEC @ExeterMarine
Day 4. Closing ceremony Oceans Past Conference Penryn campus, University of Exeter, Cornwall, UK, 25-28 June 2024. oceanspast.org #oceanspast #maritimeheritage #UNOceanDecade #oceandecadeheritage
Amazing talk Documentary records reveal the vast historical extent of European oyster reef ecosystems. By Dr. Ruth Thurstan @oceans_past #oceanspast #maritimeheritage
Kicking off the last day of the 2024 @oceans_past Conference with wonderful keynote Bryony Caswell talking on Marine Functional Connectivity and historical data! @PastOceans #OPXConference
This work on historical oyster beds is my absolute favourite #marine area of research! Thought-provoking, insightful talk by the Truly Wonderful Ruth Thurstan!!! @oceans_past @UniExeCornwall @UniofExeter @ExeterMarine
Day 3. #OceansPast Conference Penryn campus, University of Exeter, Cornwall, UK, 25-28 June 2024. oceanspast.org Ebb & Flow: Ecological architecture & societal consequences of medieval & post medieval intertidal fisheries of Ireland and Britain by Dr. Paul Montgomery.