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“Um Grande Peixe, Dona Baleia da Costa”: The Whale in Portuguese Early Modern Natural History

Cristina Brito, Early Modern Period, Knowing the Ocean, Northeast Atlantic, Scientific Paper, South Atlantic, Strandings, Whales, Whaling

“A casa da minha avó”. Uma exposição colaborativa sobre a história das baleias em Atouguia da Baleia

Blue Humanities, Broad chronologies, Cristina Brito, Hunting, Knowing the Ocean, Nina Vieira, Northeast Atlantic, Scientific Paper, Whales

4-Oceans Expert Review: Distilling Global Expert Knowledge of Historical Marine Extractions

Broad chronologies, Carolina Chong-Montenegro, Eva Jobbová, Francis Ludlow, Storymap, Synthesis

500 Years of the Once Largest Fishery in the World: A Comprehensive Catch Reconstruction for the Newfoundland Cod Fishery (1508-2023)

Cod, Contemporary Period, Early Modern Period, Fishing, John Nicholls, Medieval Period, Mining the Ocean, Modern Period, Northwest Atlantic, Patrick W. Hayes, Poul Holm, Scientific Paper

A Historical Plankton Index: Zooplankton abundance in the North Sea since 800 CE

Broad chronologies, Climate, Drivers of Exploitation, Fishing, Francis Ludlow, Herring, Northeast Atlantic, Patrick W. Hayes, Poul Holm, Scientific Paper

A Merchant Prince in the Twilight of the Western Sephardic Diaspora: Aaron Lopez and his Business Organization

Carla Vieira, Early Modern Period, Knowing the Ocean, Northwest Atlantic, Scientific Paper, Trading, Whaling

A peste que veio do mar: zonas litorais, doenças e curas (séculos XVI/XXI)

Ana Catarina Garcia, Ana Cristina Roque, Contemporary Period, Early Modern Period, Global, Globalisation, Knowing the Ocean, Modern Period, Ports and Shipwrecks, Scientific Paper

A Story of Whales and People: the Portuguese Whaling Monopoly in Brazil (17th and 18th centuries)

Consumption of Marine Life, Modern Period, Nina Vieira, Northeast Atlantic, Scientific Paper, South Atlantic, Whales, Whaling

Ancient DNA evidence for the ecological globalization of cod fishing in medieval and post-medieval Europe

Bastiaan Star, Cod, Consumption of Marine Life, Drivers of Exploitation, Early Modern Period, James H. Barrett, Knowing the Ocean, Medieval Period, Mining the Ocean, Northeast Atlantic, Regional and Global Overviews, Scientific Paper

Archaeological evidence of resource utilisation of the great whales over the past two millennia: A systematic review protocol

Broad chronologies, Danny (Danielle L.) Buss, Global, James H. Barrett, Mining the Ocean, Mohsen Falahati-Anbaran, Scientific Paper, Whales, Youri van den Hurk, Zooarchaeology

Archaeological evidence of resource utilisation of walrus over the past two millennia: A systematic review protocol

Broad chronologies, Danny (Danielle L.) Buss, Ecomorphology, Global, James H. Barrett, Mining the Ocean, Mohsen Falahati-Anbaran, Scientific Paper, Walrus, Youri van den Hurk, Zooarchaeology

Baleias em linhas de falha

Ana Catarina Garcia, Blue Humanities, Consumption of Marine Life, Cristina Brito, Early Modern Period, Globalisation, Joana Baço, Mining the Ocean, Nina Vieira, Northeast Atlantic, Patrícia Carvalho, Regional and Global Overviews, Strandings, Video, Whales, Whaling

Barcos, embarcaciones menores y arqueología naval en Lisboa: los últimos cinco años (2019-2024)

Archaeology, Knowing the Ocean, Mining the Ocean, Northeast Atlantic, Patrícia Carvalho, Ports and Shipwrecks, Scientific Paper

Bones Reference Collection

Digital Humanities, Knowing the Ocean, Medieval Period, Reference Collection, Zooarchaeology

Century-scale loss and change in the fishes and fisheries of a temperate marine ecosystem revealed by qualitative historical sources

Early Modern Period, Fishing, Poul Holm, Scientific Paper

Cetaceans of São Tome and Príncipe

Cristina Brito, Early Modern Period, Hunting, Mining the Ocean, Nina Vieira, Scientific Paper, South Atlantic, Strandings, Whales, Whaling

Challenges in detecting volcanic forcing in climate and societal proxies: insights from the 1170/1171 CE eruption

Climate, Drivers of Exploitation, Francis Ludlow, Global, Medieval Period, Scientific Paper, Zhen Yang

Climatic and societal impacts of volcanic eruptions in the Western Han Dynasty (206 BCE–8 CE): a comparative study

Antiquity, Climate, Drivers of Exploitation, Francis Ludlow, Pacific, Scientific Paper, Zhen Yang

Comment on “Five centuries of cod catches in eastern Canada,” by Schijns et al

Cod, Contemporary Period, Early Modern Period, Fishing, John Nicholls, Mining the Ocean, Modern Period, Northwest Atlantic, Patrick W. Hayes, Poul Holm, Scientific Paper

Cowboys, Cod, Climate and Conflict: Navigations in the Digital Environmental Humanities

Charles Travis, Cod, Consumption of Marine Life, Digital Humanities, Drivers of Exploitation, Early Modern Period, Fishing, Francis Ludlow, Global, John Nicholls, Knowing the Ocean, Poul Holm, Regional and Global Overviews, Scientific Paper, Written sources

Dating the first historic extirpation of a whale species: The demise of the grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) in the eastern North Atlantic

Early Modern Period, Hunting, James H. Barrett, Northeast Atlantic, Scientific Paper, Zooarchaeology

Des baleines en images et en os, étudier les interactions humain-animal pour comprendre le passé

Cristina Brito, Early Modern Period, Joana Baço, Knowing the Ocean, Nina Vieira, Scientific Paper, South Atlantic, Whales, Whaling, Written sources, Zooarchaeology

Desvendando as baleias do Brasil, fantasmas na história global da baleação

Early Modern Period, Knowing the Ocean, Nina Vieira, Scientific Paper, South Atlantic, Whales, Whaling

Documentary Sources for a Natural History of Whales in Portugal

Blue Humanities, Cristina Brito, Early Modern Period, Literature, Medieval Period, Mining the Ocean, Nina Vieira, Northeast Atlantic, Research data, Strandings, Whales, Whaling, Written sources

Explaining major shifts in early-modern economies: the causes for the decline of the North Sea Fisheries of Southwest Denmark, 1537–1657

Cod, Fishing, Herring, Modern Period, Northeast Atlantic, Poul Holm, Scientific Paper, Synthesis

Fisheries and Naval Warfare

Charles Travis, Cod, Consumption of Marine Life, Digital Humanities, Early Modern Period, Fishing, Herring, Map, Mining the Ocean, Modern Period, Northeast Atlantic, Northwest Atlantic, Regional and Global Overviews

Fishing at the Edge of Existence: Shetland, Faroes, Iceland, c. 1540-1790

Cod, Consumption of Marine Life, Drivers of Exploitation, Early Modern Period, Fishing, Herring, John Nicholls, Knowing the Ocean, Northeast Atlantic, Northwest Atlantic, Poul Holm, Regional and Global Overviews, Scientific Paper, Written sources

Five millennia of mitonuclear discordance in Atlantic bluefin tuna identified using ancient DNA

Ancient DNA, Bastiaan Star, Broad chronologies, Fishing, Mining the Ocean, Northeast Atlantic, Oliver Kersten, Scientific Paper, Tuna

From the Sea to the Land: An Archaeological Study of Iberian Footwear during the Early Modern Period

Ana Catarina Garcia, Archaeology, Early Modern Period, Globalisation, Northeast Atlantic, Scientific Paper

Geohistorical insights into marine functional connectivity

Blue Humanities, Broad chronologies, Cristina Brito, Global, Knowing the Ocean, Nina Vieira, Scientific Paper, Written sources

Grand Banks Bio-Engine

Cartography, Charles Travis, Cod, Digital Humanities, Early Modern Period, Herring, Mining the Ocean, Modern Period, Northeast Atlantic, Northwest Atlantic, Storymap

Grand Banks Charting 1504-1787

Cartography, Charles Travis, Cod, Consumption of Marine Life, Digital Humanities, Early Modern Period, Herring, Mining the Ocean, Northwest Atlantic, Regional and Global Overviews, Video, Written sources

Havets Elfenbein / Sea Ivories

Book, Broad chronologies, Global, James H. Barrett, Mining the Ocean, Trading, Walrus, Whales

Historical Collections of Tropical Marine Mammals Are an Excellent Resource for Ancient DNA

Ancient DNA, Bastiaan Star, Global, Hunting, James H. Barrett, Knowing the Ocean, Modern Period, Scientific Paper, Sirenia

Historical marine footprint for Atlantic Europe, 1500–2019

Early Modern Period, Fishing, Globalisation, John Nicholls, Northeast Atlantic, Patrick W. Hayes, Poul Holm, Scientific Paper

History of the ecology of marine fishes

Cristina Brito, Fishing, Global, Knowing the Ocean, Modern Period, Scientific Paper, Written sources

Human links to marine life and scientific research

Blue Humanities, Knowing the Ocean, Video

Humans and Aquatic Animals in early Modern America and Africa

Book, Cristina Brito, Fishing, Globalisation, Hunting, Literature, Modern Period, Northeast Atlantic, Sea Turtles, Seals, Sirenia, South Atlantic

Institutional Management and Planning for Droughts: A Comparison of Ireland and Ontario, Canada

Climate, Contemporary Period, Digital Humanities, Drivers of Exploitation, Eva Jobbová, Francis Ludlow, Northeast Atlantic, Northwest Atlantic, Scientific Paper

Lendas vindas do mar: relatório de residência artística I

Blue Humanities, Cristina Brito, Patrícia Carvalho, Report

Logbook of the Maritime Mayas and Manatees

Ana Catarina Garcia, Caribbean Sea, Cristina Brito, Digital Humanities, Jaime Silva, Knowing the Ocean, Sirenia, Storymap

Logbooks, Whale Catches and Oceanic Climates: Reconstructing Maritime History in GIS With Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, or the White Whale (1851)

Charles Travis, Consumption of Marine Life, Digital Humanities, Early Modern Period, Globalisation, Literature, Logbooks, Mining the Ocean, Modern Period, Northeast Atlantic, Northwest Atlantic, Presentation, Regional and Global Overviews, Trading, Whales, Whaling

Lunar Eclipses Illuminate Timing and Climate Impact of Medieval Volcanism

Climate, Drivers of Exploitation, Francis Ludlow, Global, Medieval Period, Scientific Paper, Written sources, Zhen Yang

Manatins e tartarugas no Brasil colonial (XVI-XVIII): Apropriação, extrações, consumos e teleconexões oceânicas

Ana Catarina Garcia, Consumption of Marine Life, Cristina Brito, Early Modern Period, Globalisation, Hunting, Nina Vieira, Scientific Paper, Sea Turtles, Sirenia, South Atlantic, Trading

Marine Lexicon

All Taxa, Ana Catarina Garcia, Blue Humanities, Broad chronologies, Cristina Brito, Digital Humanities, Digital Resource, Global, Joana Baço, Nina Vieira, Patrícia Carvalho

Marine Resource Procurement as Everyday Resistance in Ireland During the Great Hunger (1845-1852)

Consumption, Consumption of Marine Life, Emily Schwalbe, Modern Period, Northeast Atlantic, Poul Holm, Rory Connolly, Scientific Paper, Sophia Chaplle

Memoir of a Caribbean Mermaid: A Historical Ecology Study Exploring the Changing Perspectives and Human Exploitation of Manatees in the Caribbean

Blue Humanities, Caribbean Sea, Contemporary Period, Early Modern Period, Hunting, Knowing the Ocean, Léanna Saint-Victor, Mining the Ocean, Modern Period, Sirenia, Thesis, Trading

Navigating Polycrisis: long-run socio-cultural factors shape response to changing climate

Broad chronologies, Climate, Drivers of Exploitation, Francis Ludlow, Global, Scientific Paper

Navios, barcos e a arqueologia ribeirinha em Lisboa: métodos e estratégias de investigação

Archaeology, Early Modern Period, Knowing the Ocean, Northeast Atlantic, Patrícia Carvalho, Ports and Shipwrecks, Scientific Paper

New challenges for the Human Oceans Past agenda

All Taxa, Blue Humanities, Broad chronologies, Cristina Brito, Francis Ludlow, Global, James H. Barrett, Poul Holm, Scientific Paper, Synthesis

O oceano histórico e ecológico: Narrativas e contextos da época moderna

All Taxa, Ana Catarina Garcia, Blue Humanities, Early Modern Period, Global, Globalisation, Joana Baço, Mining the Ocean, Nina Vieira, Patrícia Carvalho, Ports and Shipwrecks, Scientific Paper, Whaling

O Porto de Angra no século XVII e o Sistema Portuário do Atlântico

Ana Catarina Garcia, Book, Early Modern Period, Knowing the Ocean, Northeast Atlantic, Ports and Shipwrecks, Trading

Oceanities

Cristina Brito, Digital Humanities, Jaime Silva, Joana Baço, Podcast

Pacific Sperm Whaling, 1790-1900

Charles Travis, Consumption of Marine Life, Digital Humanities, Globalisation, Logbooks, Mining the Ocean, Modern Period, Pacific, Regional and Global Overviews, Sperm Whale, Video, Whaling

Population dynamics of Baltic herring since the Viking Age revealed by ancient DNA and genomics

Ancient DNA, Bastiaan Star, Fishing, Herring, James H. Barrett, Medieval Period, Mining the Ocean, Northeast Atlantic, Scientific Paper

Population structure of Dugong dugon across the Indo-Pacific revealed by historical mitogenomes

Ancient DNA, Bastiaan Star, Broad chronologies, Cristina Brito, Indo-Pacific, James H. Barrett, Lydia Hildebrand Furness, Mining the Ocean, Scientific Paper, Sirenia, Zooarchaeology

Quantifying the past: a global literature review on historical pinniped exploitation

André Carvalho, Cristina Brito, Diogo Falcato, Early Modern Period, Globalisation, Knowing the Ocean, Literature, Research data, Scientific Paper, Seals, Written sources

Regional Patterns of Late Medieval and Early Modern European Building Activity Revealed by Felling Dates

Drivers of Exploitation, Early Modern Period, Francis Ludlow, Globalisation, Medieval Period, Northeast Atlantic, Scientific Paper, Written sources

SDG 14 – Exploiting and Managing the Alien and Unseen World below Water

All Taxa, Antiquity, Blue Humanities, Early Modern Period, Global, Globalisation, Medieval Period, Mining the Ocean, Modern Period, Poul Holm, Scientific Paper

SeaCite Database

All Taxa, Broad chronologies, Cristina Brito, Digital Humanities, Global, Nina Vieira, Synthesis, Written sources

The 852/3 CE Mount Churchill Eruption: Examining the Potential Climatic and Societal Impacts and the Timing of the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the North Atlantic Region

Drivers of Exploitation, Francis Ludlow, Globalisation, Medieval Period, Northeast Atlantic, Northwest Atlantic, Scientific Paper, Written sources, Zhen Yang

The dugout canoe from São Tomé and Príncipe Islands: from the tree to the sea

Archaeology, Broad chronologies, Fishing, Joana Baço, Mining the Ocean, Northeast Atlantic, Scientific Paper

The ecomorphology of walruses: What is it and how does it relate to human exploitation?

Broad chronologies, Ecomorphology, Global, Hunting, Katrien Dierickx, Mining the Ocean, Scientific Paper, Walrus

The Fish Revolution

Cod, Early Modern Period, Fishing, Francis Ludlow, Herring, Knowing the Ocean, Northeast Atlantic, Northwest Atlantic, Poul Holm, Video

The Importance of Aquatic Fauna on Ancient Mesopotamian Healing Practices—An Environmental Humanities Approach to Human Dependency of Non-Human World

Antiquity, Archaeology, Cristina Brito, Northeast Atlantic, Scientific Paper

The prelude to industrial whaling: Identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting

Archaeology, Early Modern Period, Hunting, James H. Barrett, Mining the Ocean, Scientific Paper, Whales, Zooarchaeology

The Price of Fish in French Supply Contracts (1538-1751)

Cod, Consumption of Marine Life, Drivers of Exploitation, Early Modern Period, Fishing, Global, Knowing the Ocean, Poul Holm, Regional and Global Overviews, Scientific Paper, Written sources

The Whale in Atouguia – Exibithion

Blue Humanities, Consumption of Marine Life, Cristina Brito, Drivers of Exploitation, Early Modern Period, Knowing the Ocean, Medieval Period, Modern Period, Nina Vieira, Northeast Atlantic, Regional and Global Overviews, Whales, Whaling, Written sources

Tracing 600 years of long-distance Atlantic cod trade in medieval and post-medieval Oslo using stable isotopes and ancient DNA

Ancient DNA, Bastiaan Star, Broad chronologies, Cod, Fishing, James H. Barrett, Mining the Ocean, Northeast Atlantic, Scientific Paper

Tracing the origins of Atlantic walrus ivory through ancient DNA analyses

Ancient DNA, Bastiaan Star, Hunting, Medieval Period, Mining the Ocean, Northeast Atlantic, Oliver Kersten, Scientific Paper, Walrus

Transdisciplinary Histories and the Rise of the Environmental Humanities

Blue Humanities, Broad chronologies, Cristina Brito, Global, Joana Baço, Nina Vieira, Patrícia Carvalho, Scientific Paper, Synthesis

Tuna traps in the Algarve: The literary vision of Raul Brandão, Sousa Costa and Manuel Teixeira Gomes

Brígida Baptista, Contemporary Period, Fishing, Knowing the Ocean, Literature, Northeast Atlantic, Scientific Paper, Tuna

Two Azores shipwrecks and insect biological invasions

Ana Catarina Garcia, Archaeology, Globalisation, Knowing the Ocean, Modern Period, Scientific Paper

Uma Agenda de Investigação nas Humanidades Azuis: Exploração dos Ambientes Aquáticos e os 4 Oceanos em Épocas Pré-Industrialização

All Taxa, Blue Humanities, Broad chronologies, Cristina Brito, Global, Scientific Paper, Synthesis

Uma construção cultural de ser baleia: A história ambiental de dois arrojamentos na Lisboa ribeirinha e das pessoas que os observaram e descreveram

Blue Humanities, Cristina Brito, Early Modern Period, Knowing the Ocean, Literature, Medieval Period, Nina Vieira, Northeast Atlantic, Scientific Paper, Strandings, Whales, Written sources

Volcanic Eruptions in Antiquity: Responses to Sudden Climatic Variability in the First Eight Centuries BCE

Antiquity, Climate, Drivers of Exploitation, Francis Ludlow, Global, Scientific Paper, Zhen Yang

Walrus ivory trade and the abandonment of Norse Greenland

Hunting, James H. Barrett, Medieval Period, Mining the Ocean, Northeast Atlantic, Scientific Paper, Trading, Walrus

Walruses on the Dnieper: New evidence for the intercontinental trade of Greenlandic ivory in the Middle Ages

Bastiaan Star, Globalisation, Hunting, James H. Barrett, Medieval Period, Mining the Ocean, Northeast Atlantic, Scientific Paper, Trading, Walrus

Whale bones collected from walls of houses in the village of Atouguia da Baleia

Consumption of Marine Life, Cristina Brito, Digital Humanities, Drivers of Exploitation, Joana Baço, Knowing the Ocean, Medieval Period, Nina Vieira, Northeast Atlantic, Regional and Global Overviews, Video, Whales, Whaling

Whales Lost and Found: Rescuing a history of biodiversity loss in early modern Brazil

Blue Humanities, Early Modern Period, Knowing the Ocean, Nina Vieira, Scientific Paper, South Atlantic, Trading, Whales, Whaling, Written sources

What Can the Public Humanities Learn about Impact from the Environmental Humanities?

Global, Modern Period, Poul Holm, Scientific Paper, Synthesis