Tag: maritime-heritage

CFP: North American Society for Oceanic History Conference

https://globalmaritimehistory.com/cfp-north-american-society-for-oceanic-history-conference/

Continental Connections: Inland Waters and the Shaping of Maritime North America.

The North American Society for Oceanic History invites you to  the Grand Hotel in Natchez, Mississippi for their 2025 conference from May 15-17. 

For thousands of years, a vast complex of inland waters shaped the lives and cultures of indigenous North Americans. These same waters allowed European states to establish and maintain outposts of empire thousands of miles from the Atlantic Ocean. During the early decades of the nineteenth century, inland waters made it possible for millions of Euro-Americans to move west and establish the cities and farms that became the foundations of North America’s modern agricultural and industrial economies.   

This year NASOH is recognizing the complicated historical legacy of North America’s inland waters by meeting at Natchez, Mississippi. Located on the Mississippi River at the western terminus of the Natchez Trace, an overland trail connecting the Mississippi, Cumberland, and Tennessee rivers, Natchez was a natural point of exchange and location of important Indigenous ceremonial mounts. The French, recognizing the area’s importance-built Fort Rosalie in 1716. The present city is named after the Natchez Indians, and its subsequent culture and history are the products of Indigenous, French, English, Spanish, African, and American influences. A natural stopping place and base for keelboats and flatboats, and later steamboats, Natchez became the first capital of the Mississippi Territory and the second-largest slave trading market in the United States. Celebrated for its surviving antebellum architecture and southern heritage, Natchez is also a testament to the enduring and pervasive influences of maritime connections and inland waters in North America.

Session and individual paper proposals are encouraged.  Sessions should have no more than 4 papers. 

Proposals should include: A) title; B) 150-200 word abstract; C) a 150 word (maximum) biographical statement; D) contact information, including phone number, address, affiliation, and email. This information should be submitted as a single Word document (not Pdf), single-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font. 

Please note that conference registration is required for papers. 

PowerPoint presentations are encouraged, and projectors will be provided. Please note that requests for specific audio-visual equipment, special outlets, or accommodation for disabilities should be included in the proposal. 

The deadline for proposal submission is February, 15, 2025.  Please submit proposal packets electronically to NASOHconference25@gmail.com

For general questions, please contact Dr. Amy Mitchell-Cook, amitchellcook@uwf.edu

Additional information regarding accommodations and registration will be available on NASOH’s website.

Student Travel Grants

Students may apply for a Chad Smith Travel Grant to assist in travel to present a paper at the conference. Additionally, each year NASOH bestows the Clark G. Reynolds Student Paper Award to the author of the best graduate student paper delivered at the conference.  Please see the awards section of the NASOH website for details. Students wishing to be considered for either award must indicate so as part of their paper proposal.  For more information about these grants, please go to the NASOH webpage for the grants.

The Earth and Ocean Lab at the Department of Geography, University College Cork wishes to appoint a Post-Doctoral Researcher to undertake the I-POINT project. Shipwrecks are anthropogenically derived seafloor features with important cultural heritage that may form biodiversity ‘hotspots’ in otherwise barren parts of the seabed.

https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/303795

The Earth and Ocean Lab at the Department of Geography, University College Cork wishes to appoint a Post-Doctoral Researcher to undertake the I-POINT project. Shipwrecks are anthropogenically derived seafloor features with important cultural heritage that may form biodiversity ‘hotspots’ in otherwise barren parts of the seabed. In recent times, their presence has typically been considered a hazard to trade and navigation (shipping routes), energy (renewable energy development) and marine resources (trawling). However, a relatively lesser studied hazard is the pollution potential of shipwrecks given their composition, cargo and long-term exposure to the marine environment that can up-concentrate shipwreck-derived pollutants akin to placer deposits. The I-POINT project is a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional research project that: i) identifies, maps and ranks the distribution of polluting shipwrecks around Ireland, and ii) quantifies the impacts of the most intensely polluting shipwrecks. To do this, we propose a data-driven assessment of online archives, historical records, peer-reviewed literature using a Python-based automatic web-scraping method (or suitable alternative). Key wrecks from this assessment will be analysed and surveyed (multibeam, magnetometry, side scan sonar, sediment sampling and ROV-based photogrammetry). The resulting survey data will be processed and used in hydrodynamic modelling using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. This assessment will determine the controls on pollution, the distribution of pollutants and their variance under changing marine environmental conditions. On a broader scale, the real impact of this research will be the creation of a legacy report aimed at informing policy makers and other stakeholders at how to best manage and remedy shipwreck-based pollution on the short (5 years) and long term (50 years). The project is funded through the Marine Institute Post-Doctoral Fellowship. The appointed candidate will take a lead role on this project from all aspects of the research through to project logistics and administration. Post-Doctoral researchers within the Earth and Ocean lab typically gain experience in student supervision, grant writing and teaching as part of their career development. 

The candidate should have a PhD in a closely related discipline or subject area (essential). They should be able to demonstrate experience with managing a research project. They should have experience and knowledge in at least one of the following: seafloor mapping and imaging (ROV-derived photogrammetry; multibeam sonar or side scan sonar); Python programming; sedimentology and sediment analysis (geochemical and particle size); marine CFD modelling; Irish shipwrecks (heritage and policy). The appointee will work directly with PI’s at University College Cork and University College Dublin, and will be expected to engage with a range of external stakeholder organisations.

Project Title: Instability and Pollution Potential Mapping of Irish Shipwreck Sites for a National Risk Assessment Database (I-PoINt)

Post Duration: 3.5 Years 

Where to apply

Websitehttp://www.ucc.ie/en/

Requirements

Research FieldGeography » OtherEducation LevelPhD or equivalent

Skills/Qualifications

The primary focus of the Postdoctoral Researcher will be research however a particular emphasis during this stage should include:

  • To conduct a specified programme of research under the supervision and direction of a Principal Investigator/Project Leader.
  • To engage in appropriate training and professional development opportunities as required by the Principal Investigator, School or College in order to develop research skills and competencies.
  • To gain experience in grant writing.
  • To engage in the dissemination of the results of the research in which they are engaged, as directed by, with the support of and under the supervision of a Principal Investigator.
  • To become familiar with the publication process.
  • To acquire generic and transferable skills (including project management, technical skills and postgraduate mentoring/supervision).
  • To engage in the wider research and scholarly activities of the research group, School or College.
  • To interact closely with postgraduate research students who are studying for a Masters or a PhD and possibly have an agreed role in supporting these students in their day to day research in conjunction with an academic supervisor.
  • To carry out administrative work to support the programme of research.
  • To carry out additional duties as may reasonably be required within the general scope and level of the post.
  • To contribute to costing research grant proposals and assist in the financial management of a research project.

Specific Requirements

Essential Criteria

  • A PhD qualification in marine geoscience, marine science, marine archaeology, engineering or a related field.
  • Appropriate research experience.
  • Experience in one of the following are essential: acquisition and processing of marine geospatial data; sediment analysis; marine CFD modelling or Shipwreck pollution. 
  • Knowledge of Irish Shipwrecks is highly valued.
  • Experience of Python programming and/or seafloor mapping is desirable
  • Appropriate technical competence and accomplishment.
  • A capability of working within a project team to achieve results.
  • Good communication, organisation and interpersonal skills.
  • A commitment to gaining practical experience working on a research project.
  • Ability to work well within a team.

Please note that Garda vetting and international police clearance check may form part of the selection process.

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Technical Manager (MDE Heritage Accelerator)

Historic England

https://app.beapplied.com/apply/uh4estqh8v

Summary

We are the public body that looks after England’s historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.

Historic England has a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Technical Manager (Marine Heritage Accelerator).

This is a Full Time, 2 year Fixed-Term Contract based in Swindon with hybrid working.

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive pension scheme starting at 28% employer contributions, a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.

To view our full range of benefits please follow the link here.

What you will be doing

As our Technical Manager you will provide technical leadership and day-to-day management of a new, innovative project to enrich the Crown Estate’s Marine Data Exchange (MDE) with heritage information generated by marine development. The MDE Heritage Accelerator project will simultaneously enhance the National Marine Heritage Record (NMHR) to enable better and faster decision-making in delivering clean energy offshore. The project is funded through the Crown Estate’s Offshore Wind Evidence & Change (OWEC) programme.

Who we are looking for

  • Extensive experience of working with marine or heritage data in a professional context, including large datasets
  • Demonstrable experience of managing major multi-year quality-driven projects with complex technical and methodological challenges
  • Detailed knowledge of seabed survey systems commonly used in UK marine heritage, including their resulting data and its processing and interpretation
  • Detailed knowledge of UK frameworks, standards and lexicons used in processing, interpreting, and recording marine data, heritage assets, interventions, and sources
  • Entrepreneurial and flexible – able to creatively problem solve

We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you. Having just won the Gold Award from MIND, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance.

We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to make sure our working arrangements don’t prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can.

We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working and different working locations, including hybrid working. Please visit our jobs pages or contact us to find out more.

Why work for Historic England

We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for everyone. Diversity helps us to perform better and attract more people to support our work. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and candidates with disabilities as they are underrepresented within Historic England at this level.

Historic England want all of our candidates to shine in the recruitment process. Please tell us what we can do to make sure you can show us your very best self. You can contact us by email at recruitmentTeam@Historicengland.org.uk if you have any recruitment queries. 

At Historic England we use a hiring system called Applied. Applied is a behavioural science-backed recruitment platform that reduces bias, improves quality of hire and increases diversity. We do not use CV application for the majority of our hiring processes. You will answer a selection of questions that allow our hiring teams to test your skills and suitability for the role.

To ensure a fair and inclusive recruitment process for everyone the use of AI or automated tools is not permitted.

Provisional interview dates: virtual – w/c 20th January 2025

Please follow the link for a full copy of the Job Description –

https://historicengland.org.uk/media/ykmaeed3/technical-manager-mde-heritage-accelerator.odt

Marine Data Analyst (MDE Heritage Accelerator) – Four positions available

Historic England

https://app.beapplied.com/apply/uvjssuywuy

Summary

We are the public body that looks after England’s historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.

Historic England has four fantastic opportunities for you to join us as a Marine Data Analyst (MDE Heritage Accelerator).

This is a Full Time, 2 year Fixed-Term Contract based in Swindon or London with hybrid working.

Salary

National: £31,361 – £32,869 pro-rata

Greater London+: £34,690 – £36,360 pro-rata

Inner London: – £36,368 -£38,119 pro-rata

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive pension scheme starting at 28% employer contributions, a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.

To view our full range of benefits please follow the link here.

What you will be doing

You will transform detailed heritage data generated by marine development into consistent, accessible spatial information within the Marine Data Exchange (MDE) and the National Marine Heritage Record (NMHR). This job will help deliver the objectives of the MDE Heritage Accelerator project, which is a major innovative project funded through the Crown Estate’s Offshore Wind Evidence & Change (OWEC) programme. The job encompasses processing, recording, enhancing and analysing geospatial information derived from seabed surveys to create accessible heritage information.

Who we are looking for

  • Demonstrable experience of working with marine or heritage data in a professional context, including large datasets
  • Advanced skills in using databases, spreadsheets and GIS
  • Good working knowledge of seabed survey systems commonly used in UK marine heritage, including their resulting data and its processing and interpretation
  • Clear familiarity with UK frameworks, standards and lexicons used in processing, interpreting and recording marine data, heritage assets, interventions and sources
  • Diligent attention to detail and accuracy

We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you. Having just won the Gold Award from MIND, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance.

We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to make sure our working arrangements don’t prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can.

We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working and different working locations, including hybrid working. Please visit our jobs pages or contact us to find out more.

Why work for Historic England

We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for everyone. Diversity helps us to perform better and attract more people to support our work. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and candidates with disabilities as they are underrepresented within Historic England at this level.

Historic England want all of our candidates to shine in the recruitment process. Please tell us what we can do to make sure you can show us your very best self. You can contact us by email at recruitmentTeam@Historicengland.org.uk if you have any recruitment queries. 

At Historic England we use a hiring system called Applied. Applied is a behavioural science-backed recruitment platform that reduces bias, improves quality of hire and increases diversity. We do not use CV application for the majority of our hiring processes. You will answer a selection of questions that allow our hiring teams to test your skills and suitability for the role.

To ensure a fair and inclusive recruitment process for everyone the use of AI or automated tools is not permitted.

Provisional interview dates: virtual w/c 20th January 2025

Please follow the link for a full copy of the Job Description –

https://historicengland.org.uk/media/thyhyc3t/marine-data-analyst-mde-heritage-accelerator.odt

Registrar-Maritime Collections Specialist

https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS17175

The Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS) connects people to the past by collecting, preserving, and sharing stories. The Registrar actively contributes to the WHS’s mission through managing, maintaining, and preserving the records and documents that establish the legal ownership of historical and archaeological objects in the Wisconsin Historical Society’s collections. This project position will fulfill a federally funded-Maritime Heritage Grant from the National Park Service, Department of the Interior to the Wisconsin State Historic Preservation Office. This project position is funded for 24 months beginning January 14, 2023, and is expected to end in August 2026.  This position will be located at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.

Under the direction of the Wisconsin State Archaeologist and working as part of a project team with Wisconsin Historical Society staff and Wisconsin Maritime Museum staff, the Registrar will document and catalog the 10,000+ objects in the Klopp Collection owned by the State of Wisconsin and curated by the Wisconsin Maritime Museum. The Klopp Collection contains artifacts recovered from 42 Wisconsin shipwrecks that took place from 1855-1966. The work will take place at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc, Wisconsin with some travel to the Wisconsin Historical Society headquarters in Madison.

Announcing NOAA Ocean Exploration FY25 Funding Opportunity

NOAA Ocean Exploration is pleased to announce its Ocean Exploration Fiscal Year 2025 Funding Opportunity. NOAA Ocean Exploration is dedicated to exploring the unknown ocean, unlocking its potential through scientific discovery, technological advancements, partnerships, and data delivery. By leading national efforts to fill gaps in basic understanding of the marine environment, we are providing critical ocean data, information, and awareness needed to strengthen the economy, health, and security of the United States and the world.

NOAA Ocean Exploration is soliciting proposals for ocean exploration-related projects under two themes. By supporting exploration, i.e., discovery through disciplined, diverse observations, NOAA Ocean Exploration seeks to advance our basic understanding of waters under U.S. jurisdiction. All proposals must support priorities in the NOAA Ocean Exploration Strategic Plan and should also consider the Strategic Priorities for Ocean Exploration and Characterization of the United States Exclusive Economic Zone. Proposed projects are not restricted to waters under U.S. jurisdiction, but proposals should address how projects will provide national benefit.

For Fiscal Year 2025 funding, NOAA Ocean Exploration is soliciting proposals focused on either one of the following two themes:

OCEAN EXPLORATION: Ocean Exploration proposals should support exploration of unknown or poorly known ocean areas, processes, or resources in waters deeper than 200 meters or in tropical mesophotic environments. Projects can entail conducting ocean exploration (e.g., mapping and characterizing ocean habitats, combining seismic and acoustic methods), advancing ocean exploration through the use or development of novel technologies (e.g., autonomous systems, nondestructive sensors, artificial intelligence/machine learning), and/or analysis of ocean exploration datasets or samples that already exist and are publicly accessible. NOAA Ocean Exploration is particularly interested in projects that explore the physical, chemical, and biological environments and processes in the deep oceanic water column and projects that will improve genetic libraries for species-level environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis of deep-sea species. All proposals must demonstrate how the proposed project relates to at least one of the exploration variables identified by NOAA Ocean Exploration.

MARITIME HERITAGE: Maritime Heritage proposals should address the exploration for significant maritime heritage resources that improve our understanding of the past and inform decisions about management and preservation. Maritime heritage projects can be conducted at any water depth. NOAA Ocean Exploration is particularly interested in proposals that target conflict archeology, incorporate Indigenous knowledge, or perform wide-area searches in areas poorly mapped for maritime heritage. NOAA Ocean Exploration welcomes the use of innovative technology and/or methods for quantitative assessment of targets to improve archaeological site identification and documentation.

The deadline for the pre-proposals, which are required, is May 30, 2024, at 4:59 p.m. ET. Full proposals are due by October 3, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. ET.

The notice of funding opportunity was published on April 2, 2024, and is accessible through the NOAA Ocean Exploration website, on Grants.gov, and attached for your convenience. 

A webinar about the funding opportunity will be held on April 16, 2024, at 3 p.m. EDT. Registration is open. A recording will be posted on the funding opportunities web page after the event. Additional questions may be directed to oer.nofo2025@noaa.gov.

Projectsecretaris Maritiem Erfgoed met organisatorische&verbindende kwaliteiten

Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed

Project Secretary Maritime Heritage with organizational and connecting qualities

National Cultural Heritage Agency

https://www.werkenvoornederland.nl/vacatures/projectsecretaris-maritiem-erfgoed-met-organisatorische-verbindende-kwaliteiten-OCW-2023-0535#0

What are you to do?
The aquatic soils (archaeology) team of the RCE is looking for an employee who supports the team’s work. We are looking for a project secretary who is skilled in organizing the work. The emphasis will be on the organization of international work and the implementation of more complex projects within national waters. You will work closely with the aquatic soil coordinator Dr. Bjørn Smit and the person responsible for international aquatic soil heritage (Prof. Dr. M. Manders).

Intended tasks/activities:

  • In collaboration with the person responsible for international heritage and in coordination with the aquatic sediment coordinator, continue and shape the (inter)national task for management and conservation of maritime heritage abroad;
  • creating agendas and reports of ((inter)national) consultations;
  • process and procedure monitoring of (inter)national agreements and processes;
  • monitor planning progress;
  • agenda management and planning, monitoring (inter)national maritime activities and projects;
  • support and guidance of complex (inter)national financial processes;
  • contribute to the archiving process of (inter)national maritime archives.

Our ideal candidate:

  • Has at least one year of experience with executive and supporting activities in the field of support and project management.
  • Has an HBO/WO working and thinking level, substantive training in the field of heritage.
  • Has good oral and written communication skills in Dutch and English.
  • Can separate main and secondary issues and knows how to make connections between different issues and stakeholders.
  • Has organizational skills; has coordination skills.
  • Has connecting skills; an eye for the different interests. Likes to work together. And easily shares knowledge, information and ideas with others.

You will work within the Archeology department, of which the aquatic sediment team is part. The work of the RCE with regard to the management and conservation of aquatic sediment in national and international waters is assigned to the aquatic sediment team of the Archeology department. In the previous programs, work has been carried out, processes and processes have been set up that continue to require maintenance, follow-up and attention in order to fulfill the role of the RCE with regard to management and conservation of waterbed heritage and ‘Dutch’ maritime heritage in international waters. In addition, the RCE has a task in promoting maritime heritage management abroad. Where possible, tasks within the aquatic soil team are structured programmatically and on a project basis. The team works closely with colleagues in the Northwest department who are responsible for aquatic soils and with colleagues in the Strategy and International department. The team has an adequate budget that is spent annually on management, conservation and research of underwater heritage at home and abroad.