Fathoming the Oceans Through History – TEDx Talk
Photo by Katherine TaylorMany people assume that more and better science alone holds the key to solving ocean challenges related to climate change, but it may surprise you to learn that…
An Appreciation of John Gillis
John Gills at the Fluid Frontiers Workshop, held in October 2011 at the Island Institute in Rockland, Maine Today John Gillis and his wife, Christina Gillis, should (pandemic shipping permitting!)…
Ocean History and Confederate Legacies
Graffiti on the statue of Matthew Fontaine Maury on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia. Photo credit: Adam H. DombyDr. Penelope Hardy, a historian of science and technology who studies technologies…
Recreational Origins of Commercial Fishing Technology
As someone long interested in the histories of fisheries science and of nineteenth-century scientific study of the ocean, I eagerly picked up a recent scholarly article by fisheries scientist and…
Imagining the Undersea
Most people who gaze out over the ocean focus on its surface, whether glassy, foamy, or stormy. There are people today – and in the past – who when looking…
Welcome to Fathoming the Ocean
Welcome to Fathoming the Ocean, a blog and website dedicated to fostering and promoting ocean history. I’m Helen Rozwadowski, a historian who has dedicated a career to exploring our human…