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Welcome to the OPI

The Oceans Past Initiative (OPI) is a global research network for marine historical research. Our goal is to enhance knowledge and understanding of how the diversity, distribution and abundance of marine life in the world’s oceans has changed over the long term to better indicate future changes and possibilities.


Image: Tony Atkin / Custom House Quay, Falmouth / CC BY-SA 2.0


Save the Date! Oceans Past X: 25-28 June 2024

Historical perspectives on human-ocean interactions: deep understandings for informing ocean futures.

University of Exeter’s Cornwall Campus, Penryn, UK

More details on conference themes, abstract submission and accommodation offers will be placed here soon.

Questions? Email info@oceanspast.org

 


4Oceans Project Launch

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Holm, Ludlow, Brito and Barrett
win ERC Synergy grant –
Oceans and the Human Past -
€10.4 million euro
See here for more information!


Associated projects

NorFish

NorFish is a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant led by Prof Poul Holm in Trinity College Dublin, focuses on the premise that a 16th century shift in marine fish pricing and supply in conjunction with the Little Ice Age and lowering of sea temperatures not only rise to the North Atlantic Fish Revolution but also forms one of the first documented examples of the disrupting effects of globalisation and climate change.

CONCHA

CONCHA’s main goal is to address the different ways port cities developed around the Atlantic during the early modern period in relation to differing global, regional, and local ecological and economic environments. Speaking to different literatures on port cities in the Atlantic, material and immaterial culture, and environmental history, CONCHA aims to produce an Atlantic history of seaports in which the ocean – its ecosystems and species – is included as a dynamic player.

ICES WGHIST

The Oceans Past Initiative is closely linked with the expert working group, WGHIST of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES): The ICES Working Group on the History of Fish and Fisheries (WGHIST) brings together fisheries scientists, historians, and marine biologists working on multidecadal to centennial changes in the marine environment. WGHIST aims to improve the understanding of the long-term dynamics of fish populations, fishing fleets, and catching technologies. The results are used for setting baselines for management, restoration, and conservation of marine resources and ecosystems.

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