Next week (22-24 Oct), the German Maritime Museum is hosting an international conference titled "Planetary Waters: A Challenge between Abstraction and Empathy." Join us for the public keynote, live (with a reception afterwards) and on Zoom. www.dsm.museum/en/calendar/... #envhist #envhum #oceanhist

Next week I will take part in the Planetary Waters conference in the German Maritime Museum, in Bremerhaven. Organized by Fabienne Will, @katrinkleemann.bsky.social and Noemi Quagliati With @eikeheine.bsky.social we will present a paper on the Norwegian petroleum museum

Interesting conference feat. @katrinkleemann.bsky.social, @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and many brilliant minds

💡Junge Spitzenforschung: Neun Young Academy Fellows verstärken die Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg. Die neuen #YAFs werden bei dem Festakt der Akademie anlässlich ihres 20-jährigen Bestehens am 16.10.2025 in #Hamburg offiziell begrüßt. Zur Pressemitteilung 👉 www.awhamburg.de/aktuell/pres...

I'm just passing along a book by @katrinkleemann.bsky.social called A Mist Connection: An Environmental History of the Laki Eruption of 1783 and Its Legacy. Enjoy! www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Please spread the word and submit an abstract for our "Planetary Waters" conference in Bremerhaven, 22-24 October 2025. The deadline to submit an abstract is 15 June 2025. For more info, see: www.dsm.museum/fileadmin/us... 🌊🚢

🚢 Planetary Waters: Call for Papers 🌊 How do we visualize the vastness of oceans while keeping the human connection? 🗓️ Oct 22-24, 2025 📍 German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven, Germany Deadline for abstract submission: 15 June 2025. Find the call here: www.dsm.museum/fileadmin/us...

*CfP: “Planetary Waters - A Challenge Between Abstraction and Empathy”* An exciting conference organised by three wonderful scholars this autumn - do check it out! 📆22-24 October, 2025 📍Bremerhaven, GER 🔜Paper submissions due 15 June, 2025

I was awarded the 2025 William E. and Mary B. Ritter Memorial Fellowship by @scrippsocean.bsky.social in La Jolla. It has been an absolute pleasure and privilege to spend the last two months in California, carrying out research and thinking about #oceanhist. #envhist scripps.ucsd.edu/about/awards...

If you are near the @scrippsocean.bsky.social in La Jolla, come by to the Ritter Memorial Fellowship Lecture tomorrow at 3 pm, I will be talking about the emergence of the German Maritime Observatory (Deutsche #Seewarte).

Exciting morning in La Jolla, CA, today! We had an earthquake this morning, just after 10 am. The Shake Alert said magnitude 6.3 but it was later corrected to 5.2. #earthquake #sandiego

It was a big week for publishing papers. @ambio-journal.bsky.social published our paper "Climate, peace, and conflict—past and present: Bridging insights from historical sciences and contemporary research" yesterday! 🥳 #envhist #climhist #climatechange #skystorians

New OA publication! @katrinkleemann.bsky.social and I developed an analytical tool for interdisciplinary studies that explore past nature-induced disasters using Eldgjá and Laki as case studies. doi.org/10.30909/vol... #Volcanoes #HistSci #SciHist #EnvHist #MiddleAges #earlyModernAge#Volcanica

🌋 Exciting News! Stephan Ebert & I just published our new paper in Volcanica! 🌍 We've developed an analytical tool for interdisciplinary studies that explore historical nature-induced disasters. In the paper, we're using the Eldgjá & Laki eruptions as case studies. #envhist doi.org/10.30909/vol...

Der NDR hat vor kurzem einen Beitrag mit Video und Audio über die Geschichte der Deutschen Seewarte im Kontext der Flaschenposten veröffentlicht: www.ndr.de/geschichte/s... #Seewarte #hamburg #neumayer #flaschenpost

In case you are an ECR and have a recently published article or yet-to-be published article on #oceanhist: The call for this year's Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History is out! #envhist

"In the summer of 1783 individuals in many parts of the northern hemisphere witnessed blood red sunsets and a peculiar, long-lasting dry fog." - @katrinkleemann.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2017/10/02/s... #envhist #wxhistory

The German Maritime Museum invites applications for 3-9 month-long fellowships to work on interdisciplinary object-based research focussing on the cultural & political significance of the relationship between humans and the sea. Deadline 31 January 2025. More info: www.museumsbund.de/stellenangeb...

A Mist Connection is now available as a paperback for 24.95 Euro (it remains available open access as an eBook). Coincidentally it was a misty morning in Northern Germany today. www.degruyter.com/document/doi... #envhist #Laki1783 #volcano #iceland @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Zotero fest 2024 is happening this week! Please consider spending a few minutes helping ICHO improve our shared bibliography. Help improve a shared resource and have a chance to win prizes! #histsci #envhist oceansciencehistory.com/2024/10/22/j...

Das Deutsche Schifffahrtsmuseum / Leibniz Institut für Maritime Geschichte hat eine Postdoktorandenstelle im Bereich Digitale Maritime Kulturen ausgeschrieben. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 15. Oktober 2024. Mehr Infos hier: www.dsm.museum/stellenangeb... #oceanhist

Lesetipp der Woche: @katrinkleemann.bsky.social great book about the global consequences of the Laki eruption in 1783. Environmental history at its finest.

(1/27) STARTER PACK THREAD. The environmental humanities, broadly conceived, have been flourishing on BlueSky lately. To further promote this growth, we recommend the following starter packs in and beyond the #EnvHum, beginning with ICEHO's for environmental history. Let's connect! #envhist

(8/27) Since earthquakes and Anthropocene are common topics among environmental humanities scholars, make sure to follow some geoscientists! List created by @geohenning.bsky.social #geoscience #anthropocene #earthquakes

(12/27) Interested in environmental events that took place looong ago? Here's the starter pack for you! List by @obialik.bsky.social go.bsky.app/U1kdQ4v #oceanography #environment #climate

(19/27) We don't want any geohazards nor disasters, but we do want to follow people who work on these topics! List by @watershedlab.bsky.social #disasters #geohazards

(26/27) Let's shake things up by following people working on volcanoes! List by @erikklemetti.bsky.social

My book talk on "A Mist Connection" from 2023 with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and @finnarne.me and the Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talk series was published as a podcast episode, which you can listen to here: newnatures.org/greenhouse/p... #envhist #Laki1783

Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of sharing some of my research on balloons and the Gaussberg volcano during the first German Antarctic Expedition aboard the Gauß (1901—1903) at the Alfred-Wegener-Institut, in their really beautiful lecture theater!

Great news! 📚 Get 50% off my book, A Mist Connection, as part of @degruyterbrill.bsky.social's summer sale! Visit www.degruyter.com/document/doi... and use the code DGBSS24 at the checkout to get your discount. #DeGruyterBrill #SummerSale #Laki1783 🌋🇮🇸 #envhist

That moment when one of your favorite podcasts cites your research! 🥳🌋🇮🇸 Don't miss the latest episode of the Stuff you missed in History Class podcast on "The Skaftáreldar, or Laki Fissure Eruption", also featuring a mention of A Mist Connection: open.spotify.com/episode/0g7h... #Laki1783 #envhist

Very excited to see the new PAGES issue on earthquakes in print. It also features a short article that I wrote based on research on New England earthquakes and timekeeping carried out at the @jcblibrary.bsky.social in 2021. #envhist #earthquakes pastglobalchanges.org/publications...

To celebrate Earth Day, De Gruyter is featuring my research (my book, A Mist Connection) as part of their extensive special collection through April 30. cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/EarthDay2024 Read, download, and share! #EarthDayDeGruyter @degruyterbrill.bsky.social #Laki1783

New Jersey was struck by an earthquake today, which took place very close to where an earthquake struck in 1783. For some historical context on that 29 November 1783 earthquake, have a look at my blog article: hcagrads.hypotheses.org/4839. #envhist #earthquakenj

If you are interested in earthquakes, I highly recommend Judith Hubbard and Kyle Bradley's earthquake newsletter: earthquakeinsights.substack.com/about

In 2021, @milicaprokic.bsky.social and I started talking about a book on environmental history of islands. Three years, 18 authors and 14 islands later, here we are! Thank you, @sarahwhpress.bsky.social and @whitehorsepress.bsky.social! Available in print and in OA: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.12...

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

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History is out! Thanks to the amazing editorial team, Emily O'Gorman, Sandra Swart, William San Martín, & Mark Carey! I'm delighted to be part of this publication with a chapter on Hazards and Disasters, with Admire Mseba. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

CFP: Oceans HSTM for the 2025 ICHST in New Zealand. Proposals should address some aspect of the history of ocean science and/or technology (broadly construed) in conversation with the conference theme: "Peoples, Places, Exchanges, and Circulation." networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Early career award CFP "addressing some aspect of ocean history, which for the purposes of this prize should include attention to knowledge creation or the history of ocean knowledge, broadly construed" #oceanhist #bluehumanities #histsci

The German Maritime Museum & GEOMAR / Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research have a new CFP: We are looking for contributions for a workshop (15-17 May 2024) and subsequent publication on "100 Years Research at Sea. The History of METEOR I (1925-27)" #oceanhist #envhist www.dsm.museum/en/exhibitio...

The German Maritime Museum currently has a call for applications for a dissertation prize (5000 Euro) to actively support the research and communication of maritime heritage. Deadline: 15 December. More information can be found here: www.dsm.museum/en/press-are... #oceanhist #envhist

At the German Maritime Museum, a staff member gets to tell the public about an archival treasure in our collection each month. This month, it was my turn. Learn more about ballooning during the first German Antarctic Expedition in 1902 (in 🇩🇪) here: www.dsm.museum/museum/neuig...

Please join our exciting new Ocean Humanities International Lecture Series at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven or via Zoom. The first lecture takes place on 12 September with Henning Trüper (ZFL Berlin) on sea rescue (in German). www.dsm.museum/oceanhumanit... #oceanhist #envhist

My colleague Nils Theinert and I wrote a blog article for ICHO that provides an overview of the collections at the German Maritime Museum / Leibniz Institute for Maritime History in Bremerhaven, where we work. #oceanhist oceansciencehistory.com/2023/08/04/t...

Time to share the good news with Bluesky: My book "A Mist Connection. An Environmental History of the Laki Eruption of 1783 and Its Legacy" with De Gruyter is now available as an open-access eBook & for purchase as a print copy: www.degruyter.com/document/doi... #Laki1783 #envhist #climhist #histsci

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