The wakes we inherit - Before Us

We're taking a small detour this week to talk about the role of voyaging and the embodied knowledge of seafaring that has been collected and passed down for generations among modern communities all across the Pacific.  It's a perspective that...

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Of time and tide: the complex impacts of climate change on coastal and underwater cultural heritage | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Of time and tide: the complex impacts of climate change on coastal and underwater cultural heritage - Volume 96 Issue 390

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EWA 2 Congress - Early Watercraft Association

OUR SPONSORS Early Watercraft Association is sincerely grateful to our sponsors, without whose generosity – whether financial, in partnership, or in-kind by giving up their valuable time – EWA 2 could not have taken place. We would like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude – thank...

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Conference Session: Bridging Waters Through the Past | Underwater Expedition

We are pleased to announce that the deadline for abstract submissions has been extended to 31 October 2026. If you have not yet had the chance to submit your proposal, we warmly invite you to send an abstract (max. 300 words) to underwaterexpedition@uw.edu.pl. Both 20-minute presentations and poster...

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One Ocean, One Future

This concluding reflection synthesizes the key themes emerging from Volume III of Ocean Literacy: The Foundation for the Success of the Ocean Decade, highlighting the roles of communication, technology, and global collaboration in advancing Ocean Literacy at the...

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Public talk: Shipwrecks, the marine environment and museums | Western Australian Museum

Join visiting international researcher Charlotte Jarvis for a public talk about exploring ocean literacy through heritage.

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The Ocean We Want: Cultural Heritage and the UN Ocean Decade

The Ocean We Want: Cultural Heritage and the UN Ocean Decade A Change and Innovation cluster event, Vere Gordon Childe Centre

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Detection of resonant knapped lithics using chirp sonar - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Detection of resonant knapped lithics using chirp sonar

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UNESCO Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH) Day: The wonder of shipwrecks

YouTube video by UNESCO 2001 Convention Accredited NGOs

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Co-designing Ocean Science with Small Island Developing States’ Local Stakeholders: A Tool for Ocean Literacy

The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science, under the motto “The Science We Need for the Ocean We Want,” provides an international framework for addressing Ocean challenges through science-based solutions, co-design methodologies, multistakeholder...

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Mapping the global distribution of coastal World Heritage Sites: Glo-CoH, a new Global Coastal Heritage dataset - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Mapping the global distribution of coastal World Heritage Sites: Glo-CoH, a new Global Coastal Heritage dataset

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The power of Indigenous knowledge

Did you know that Indigenous Peoples steward 80% of global biodiversity across 20% of the world's land? As we face an unprecedented environmental crisis, their time-tested wisdom, paired with modern science, may well hold the key to our collective future. This podcast episode transports you to the four corners of the world, from the Brazilian Amazon to Samoa, via the African bushland and Sámi territory in Northern Europe, to find out how. We hear how traditional fire management, ancient fisheries conservation, climate-resilient architecture, and deep environmental observation are proving their value on a global scale. An immersive soundscape of authentic field recordings and community voices accompanies insights from Samoan journalist Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson, Navajo archaeologist Ora Marek-Martinez, and Nigel Crawhall, Chief of Section of Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (LINKS) at UNESCO. Across these diverse perspectives, a clear message emerges: language, culture, and environmental stewardship are deeply bound. Safeguarding them requires sustained effort to ensure Indigenous voices are heard and valued. An episode by Anuliina Savolainen, production by Emmanuel Rudowski. Narration by François Wibaux, with excerpts read by Tariq Talal Mosaad, Peter Bates, Victor Soo, Nolwazi Mjwara. Media Credits: Special thanks to Pierre Costard and the Internet Archive, the Endangered Languages Archive, and the National Collections of Music, Theatre and Dance (Sweden) for providing field recordings under Creative Commons licensing. ©Image: The UNESCO Courier/ Sylvie Serprix Further Reading: -The UNESCO Courier’s January 2026 issue, How Indigenous knowledge drives scientific discovery. - UNESCO and Indigenous Peoples (https://www.unesco.org/en/indigenous-peoples)From founding the LINKS initiative in 2002 to launching the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022–2032), UNESCO continues to support Indigenous Peoples and their knowledge systems. https://courier.unesco.org/en https://courier.unesco.org/en/subscribe Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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Shipwrecks and Maritime Heritage in Coastal Protected Areas of Rocha, Uruguay - Journal of Maritime Archaeology

This article examines the maritime and underwater cultural heritage associated with the marine-coastal protected areas of Rocha Department, Uruguay. Despite the high frequency of shipwrecks along its Atlantic coast, systematic academic research has been limited. Drawing on documentary sources, technical reports, oral histories, and community-held collections, this study compiles and analyzes 161 documented shipwrecks in or near four protected areas: Cabo Polonio, Laguna de Rocha, Laguna Garzón, and Cerro Verde/Islas de la Coronilla. Quantitative and qualitative analyses reveal strong temporal and spatial patterns: nearly 70% of wrecks occurred during the nineteenth century, coinciding with intensified regional navigation and preceding lighthouse construction, while the transition from sail to steam reflects broader global maritime transformations. The results also highlight the diversity of flags, particularly the predominance of British ships, and the persistence of maritime memory in local communities through oral traditions and practices. Beyond identifying tangible remains, the study frames Rocha’s Atlantic coast as a maritime cultural landscape, where material, ecological, and intangible elements intersect. By providing the first systematic synthesis of this heritage, the article establishes a foundation for integrating it into protected-area management. It also stresses the urgent need for stronger regulatory frameworks capable of articulating heritage, land-use planning, environmental protection, and defense norms, as current fragmentation hampers effective stewardship. Finally, the study underscores the potential of international collaboration for research and management of underwater cultural heritage. Strengthening these connections, together with archaeological fieldwork and community-based initiatives, is essential for sustainable conservation and safeguarding this shared cultural legacy.

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Marine Cultural Heritage in times of conflict: Sustaining the relationship between People and the Sea - Ocean Decade Heritage Network

By Vera Noon, ODHN Regional Representative for the East Mediterranean. The East Mediterranean region is one of the world’s oldest maritime crossroads, exceptionally rich in marine cultural heritage

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The Discursive Nature of Ocean and Cultural Heritage Management in the Indian Ocean Region

Cultural heritage is considered to be the legacy of monuments, sites, values, practices, beliefs, and rituals that are passed from one generation to the next. Intangible cultural heritage refers directly to those legacies that are not palpable and are dynamic,...

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Une structure millénaire retrouvée dans le Saint-Laurent

Il s’agirait d’un très grand piège à poissons en pierre qui aurait été construit par des peuples autochtones 1200 ans avant aujourd’hui.

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Participatory community mapping to include sociocultural dimensions in ocean governance - Sustainability Science

Methods to include sociocultural dimensions in ocean governance are important, but not well developed. Here we provide a methodology for participatory community mapping of sociocultural dimensions attached to the ocean and coast. The research adapted a mapping methodology with 65 local coastal community members as co-researchers in three focus areas of South Africa, embracing deep and careful work to contextualise the process. Specifically, we propose a seven-step process; (1) scoping, (2) learning, (3) categorising, (4) mapping, (5) digitising, (6) validating, and (7) integrating. Results show that this process is able to identify a mosaic of sociocultural dimensions that should be better accounted for in ocean governance processes and highlights the importance of mapping both the past and the future. We discuss the lessons we learned from the participatory mapping process, as well as the limitations and opportunities in attempting to map something as complex and dynamic as people’s sociocultural connections to the ocean and coast. Of critical importance is the opportunity for communities to self-identify and co-develop the mapping categories and legends, particularly in contexts where coastal communities have been and continue to be excluded and forcibly removed from the coast. Our methods provide an important first step to ensure that local communities’ sociocultural priorities, knowledges and interests inform ocean governance processes such as marine spatial planning and marine protected area design and management, not only in South Africa, but also at regional and global scales.

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The BlueSchoolsMed Project Experience: An Overview of the Conception, Implementation, Evaluation, and Dissemination of the “Blue Challenges” within Mediterranean Schools

Within the framework of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, alongside the EU efforts to promote Ocean Literacy (OL) across Europe (EU), and in line with the EU4Ocean Ocean Literacy Coalition, the Erasmus+ BlueSchoolsMed mobility project...

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Our Ocean makes history in Kenya with $6.4 billion in commitments - Oceanographic

Our Ocean Conf. concluded in Mombasa, Kenya with 320 new commitments worth $6.4 billion across ocean conservation and sustainable fisheries.

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Home | World Ocean Assessment

The ocean is the foundation of life on Earth. But its health is at grave risk as ecosystems and habitats approach or surpass critical tipping points. In the search for solutions, ocean science is indispensable. The third World Ocean Assessment offers the most comprehensive evaluation to date, provid…

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Co-designing Ocean Science with Small Island Developing States’ Local Stakeholders: A Tool for Ocean Literacy

The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science, under the motto “The Science We Need for the Ocean We Want,” provides an international framework for addressing Ocean challenges through science-based solutions, co-design methodologies, multistakeholder...

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