Helen Rozwadowski

Arthur C. Clarke’s Scuba Adventures and Ocean Frontiers - JSTOR Daily Clarke’s interest in oceanic exploration in the 1950s was, like his undersea fiction, often neglected by an audience focused on the race for outer space.

Look! My research is featured on JSTOR Daily today :)
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Attention #bluehumanities crew! Take a look at the call for Mainsheet, an innovative, multidisciplinary journal publishing both peer-reviewed research articles & also art, poetry, artifact spotlights, & other short, accessible content. Please spread the word! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

CFP Announcement: 2025 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History The DHST Commission on the History of Oceanography (ICHO) announces the annual Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize for outstanding papers addressing some aspect of ocean history, …

Early Career Ocean History Scholars! Please take a look at (& share!) the call for the 2025 ICHO Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History:
oceansciencehistory.com/2025/01/06/c...

Wet Urbanisms | MoMA Inspired by the publication of André Tavares’s new book Architecture Follows Fish: An Amphibious History of the North Atlantic, the panel discussion “Wet Urbanisms” brings Tavares in conversation with...

NYC-area ocean scholars (&, please spread the word!) -- don't miss the Wet Urbanisms event at MOMA on Fri Jan 17: www.moma.org/calendar/eve...

Hey #oceanhist crew! Take a look at the Built Ocean CFP: networks.h-net.org/group/announ... calling for contributions from a wide range of disciplines to contribute to an architectural history of the sea! Please spread the word!

Hey #oceanhist crew! Please consider spending a few minutes this week helping the ICHO ZoteroFest! Improving our shared bibliography helps all of us &also newcomers to our field! Here's the announcement winfo: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

This is your Oceans In Depth book series editorial team! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/se...

Deadline extended to Oct 15th for proposals for the special issue of Mainsheet on challenges in the study of maritime archaeology! Please spread the word to #oceanhistory, #bluehumanities, etc.! Here's some info: www.mainsheet.mysticseaport.org/post/2624-de...

Happy World Oceans Day!! Please join H-Oceans and tell you fellow #oceanhist fans to do the same!

Me at Marie Tharp Dr., Woods Hole, MA, formerly named for a 19th century US naval hydrography 😊

DEEP NEWS! H-Oceans launched today! If you'd like to be part of a community of scholars who consider the volumetric, global oceans as a site of historical inquiry in the humanities and social sciences, please join (and pass the word): networks.h-net.org/h-oceans

Hey #oceanhist crew! Exciting news! The English language edition of Michael Jung's fantastic history of diving (1420-1815) - Reducing Diving to a Science - is out! amzn.eu/d/drpQE36 Please spread the word!

I just Google searched it and can't find much like it! This hotel was demolished and rebuilt in 2012, so it's probably not old!

Madison Beach Hotel in Madison CT. I agree, it is bonkers!

Seen: the strangest collision of globe, ship's wheel, bollards, & compass. Definitely supposed to be ocean-y. Definitely crossing streams! At least the important side of the globe is facing forward 🤣

Nominations for the Ron Rainger Prize in Earth & Environmental Sciences are due April 1st! Please spread the word! Rainger was an historian of ocean sciences!! #oceanhist!! airtable.com/appk6HRdKRgb...

Check out this new short 4.5 min) NOAA video on ocean exploration, with me (!) as a talking head!! oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/video_playli...

Library book as history of technology archive!

Ghosts of the Techno-Fix Ocean? A Short History of Periphylla periphylla in the Norwegian Fjords In 1980, reports of deep-sea jellyfish blooms in Norwegian fjords led researchers to investigate the problem. The helmet jellyfish, Periphylla periphylla, has since migrated far north into Arctic wate...

Attention #oceanhist crew! You'll want to read this great piece by Tirza Meyer about jellyfish as ghosts of the future ocean. www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/13...

Ocean peeps! Read @graceeasterly.bsky.social 's piece, 'The US Only Pretends to Want Freedom of the Seas' here: time.com/6694506/us-n... Please share!

Hey #oceanhist crew! ICHO is organizing a session at the 2025 International Congress in New Zealand. Abstracts wanted by March 1st! See details here:
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Early career #oceanhist crew! Please consider submitting material for the new ICHO Early Career Prize! Deadline is Feb 29th! Info here: oceansciencehistory.com/2023/11/14/c...

A reminder that the deadline to apply for our early career award is coming up on February 29th!

Hey ocean crew! Check out this excellent review by Anne Ricculli of Erika Jones' book, The Challenger Expedition: Exploring the Ocean's Depths. networks.h-net.org/group/review...

I was able to find the film. I'll check to see if I can find the link.

Should be, right?!

This week in #oceanhist - workshop “Exploring an Urban Blue Humanities” @ University of Bristol’s Centre for Environmental Humanities, 12 -13 October. Schedule & zoom link here:
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The journal Environmental Humanities (which I co-edit) is looking for some new Associate Editors, including new editors for our Living Lexicon series. Applications due by Nov 3. See environmentalhumanities.org for more details.
#envhum

Try this link instead: events.zoom.us/ejl/AjTIVIBM...

DHST Festival of History of Science & Technology is over, but recordings of sessions are up til Oct 28. #oceanhist crew, note ICHO's @HistOcean nominated speaker Jack Bouchard in session #18 talking about early modern ocean history and ocean knowledge! events.zoom.us/ejl/AjTIVIBM...