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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.

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The next OPI conference will be held in Belgium in 2020, please follow this link to learn more.


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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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In Memoriam: Dinah Molloy

Associate Fellow Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities
Member of the Oceans Past Initiative

Rounding Cape Horn on an Antarctic exploration trip, 2002

Dinah Molloy passed away on 29 October 2019. With her diverse life experiences as historical researcher and Polar explorer, lunar mechanical technician and NASA experimentation scanner, classical violinist and patron of the Arts, data analyst and data manager, computer programmer and developer, she brought an array of skills and knowledge to the history and science of the Arctic. Whaling and seal hunting, ships’ voyages and crews, weather and climate conditions, geospatial referencing and calculation all form part of the academic study that she produced.
She will be greatly missed by her friends and colleagues at the Oceans Past Initiative and at Trinity CEH.

 

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