On the southern shore of the Strait of Hormuz, the Musandam Peninsula feels alternately like it is at both the center & edge of the world, @scotterich.bsky.social reports during his visit in 2015. Some of his fears have since come to pass: compass.icwa.org/p/at-both-ce...

Time and Water coming to NYC May 1st! Opening film of the Margaret Mead Film Festival. www.amnh.org/explore/marg...

True mariners who can read a map this is your time to shine

You know how important Ras Laffan is when industry insiders are using words like “Armageddon” and “apocalypse” …for the markets www.ft.com/content/5b66...

“The region’s monarchies are often described as petro-states, but they have also become what I call saltwater kingdoms, global superpowers in the production of human-made fresh water drawn from the sea.” theconversation.com/persian-gulf...

For years we’ve heard about how Iran might close the Strait of Hormuz; now we have seen that only Capital could do such a thing

A few gutsy ships going through the Strait of Hormuz, most are anchored in the Gulf of Oman off the ports of Khor Fakkan and Fujairah

People talk about sleepwalking into a war. This is a case of Trump, Bibi, et al daydreaming into a war. One that will be a nightmare for millions of people

No war with Iran! An open letter from scholars and activists

“Harvard for me but not for thee”

OK, marshaling China's rust-bucket deep sea fishing fleet into mysterious geometric formations is kind of brilliant www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

mamdani's doing richard scarry socialism. every time he appears on camera i feel like the little worm in an apple car should be right near by in a lush tableau of municipal services just out of frame

عنبر!

Please join the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, & Medicine's #oceanhist #maritime group today at 1-2:30 CT as we discuss @scotterich.bsky.social's chapter draft "The Subterranean Sea" #envhist #histsci #STS #histSTM www.chstm.org/group/histor...

Thank you for your message. I am out of the office until further notice because I am rebuilding my entire intellectual life around Émile Zola’s “Germinal”

Really looking forward to hearing the amazing papers at our conference 'The Geological Imagination in the Long Nineteenth Century' (Huntington, LA)

🌊🌊🌊 New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊 Check out @scotterich.bsky.social (Washington College)’s review of Samantha Muka (Stevens Institute of Technology )’s book _Oceans Under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea_ pub 2023 @uchicagopress.bsky.social #oceans Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

Extremely overdue new edition of Mariners, Renegades & Castaways coming out this May; this one is an all-timer for me

NEW INVESTIGATION: Israeli forces repeatedly attacked Gaza’s main port in the week following 7 Oct 2023. By Jan 2024, after months of continued attacks, all docked vessels had been rendered non-operational, devastating Gaza’s fishing industry and increasing Palestinian dependence on foreign aid.

opening Goethe to see if this is good or bad

Tagging this #CoastalStudies . We really need these hashtags to make work visible across interdisciplinary lines.

Calling all arts, humanities and social sciences early-career researchers! 📢 Applications are now open for a collections-based fellowship to explore sustainability and the environment through our collections. Apply by 7 January 2025: bit.ly/BLSustainabi...

This is a useful visualization of the Arabian Peninsula’s marginalization in Middle East Studies. While some important new journals and institutions in/on the peninsula are already ameliorating this problem, IJMES and some key US institutions remain anchored to Egypt, the Levant, and Turkey.

Watching Moby Dick last night (Huston/Peck, as suggested), the girl was struck by the storm scene. That brought to mind this amazing photograph of the Garthsnaid by Alexander Harper Turner in 1920.

New book review: Erich on Palsson, Gisli: _Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction, The_. Princeton University Press, 2024. Published by H-Environment. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20041999...

Starting now!!

📣 We are delighted to welcome Prof. Mandana Limbert for the final Howell talk of the 2023-2024 academic year on Zoom this Friday, April 26! ZAKĀT, TAXATION, AND STATEHOOD IN THE BUREIMI DISPUTE Join us and register here! virginia.zoom.us/meeting/regi... menasky

Happy to share an essay about the history/promise/perils of fish farming in the Gulf of Oman as a part of this great series

Coastal Futures, the latest series in our Theorizing the Contemporary Editor's Forum is now out!

honey wake up the pope just dropped a new apostolic exhortation on the climate crisis www.vatican.va/content/fran...

Have you ever wondered why a Saudi dairy company purchased an alfalfa farm in Arizona, or why Omani date palms were transplanted to the American southwest? Have you stopped to consider what these things might teach us about empire as a joint project?? This is the talk for you!!

Folks: Natalie Koch is giving a Zoom talk about her excellent new book, ARID EMPIRE: THE ENTANGLED FATES OF ARIZONA AND ARABIA on October 6th – join us! Register here: virginia.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

I'm so pleased to be able to share a cover for my forthcoming poetry book, *Sailing without Ahab* - plus a few notes on the wayward origins of this strange project! stevementz.com/sailing-with...

once again thinking about Marx and Melville’s helical-vortical view of history

Hey @scotterich.bsky.social - you may want to take a look at this book as it’s relates to a few things you are thinking about ❤️from LA times environmental reporter ROSANNA XIA