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Scott Erich
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yeoman professor, oceans guy, PhD from CUNY
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Please join the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, & Medicine's #oceanhist #maritime group today at 1-2:30 CT as we discuss @scotterich.bsky.social's chapter draft "The Subterranean Sea" #envhist #histsci #STS #histSTM
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History of Ocean Science, Technology and Medicine | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
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October 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Thank you for your message. I am out of the office until further notice because I am rebuilding my entire intellectual life around Émile Zola’s “Germinal”
July 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Really looking forward to hearing the amazing papers at our conference 'The Geological Imagination in the Long Nineteenth Century' (Huntington, LA)
The Geological Imagination in the Long Nineteenth Century | The Huntington
Exploring the historical origins of extraction and the growing field of Geoaesthetics, this conference queries how artists mined the geological imagination during this period. Presentations will respo...
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March 31, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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🌊🌊🌊 New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊

Check out @scotterich.bsky.social (Washington College)’s review of Samantha Muka (Stevens Institute of Technology )’s book _Oceans Under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea_ pub 2023 @uchicagopress.bsky.social

#oceans

Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Extremely overdue new edition of Mariners, Renegades & Castaways coming out this May; this one is an all-timer for me
February 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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NEW INVESTIGATION: Israeli forces repeatedly attacked Gaza’s main port in the week following 7 Oct 2023. By Jan 2024, after months of continued attacks, all docked vessels had been rendered non-operational, devastating Gaza’s fishing industry and increasing Palestinian dependence on foreign aid.
February 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
opening Goethe to see if this is good or bad
February 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Tagging this #CoastalStudies . We really need these hashtags to make work visible across interdisciplinary lines.
From the Cultural Anthropology "Coastal Futures" series earlier this year: "One of the most striking aspects of all this, for me, is just how ahistorical many of the conversations about coastal planning and management can be." culanth.org/fieldsights/... #sealevelrise #coasts #anthropology
A Matter of Time: Sea Level Rise, Retreat, and Resistance along the…
There’s a house in Pacifica, California that I think about a lot. This house was listed in late 2021 in the high $900k range. The introduction of...
culanth.org
December 27, 2024 at 1:13 AM
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Calling all arts, humanities and social sciences early-career researchers! 📢

Applications are now open for a collections-based fellowship to explore sustainability and the environment through our collections.

Apply by 7 January 2025: bit.ly/BLSustainabi...
December 6, 2024 at 2:19 PM
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This is a useful visualization of the Arabian Peninsula’s marginalization in Middle East Studies. While some important new journals and institutions in/on the peninsula are already ameliorating this problem, IJMES and some key US institutions remain anchored to Egypt, the Levant, and Turkey.
🧵1/ As part of this issue we did an analysis of over 10,000 articles of journals with Middle East in the title published since the 1950s. The idea was to see how the Gulf fit in in the 'discursive production of the Middle East'. #GulfStudies #menasky
November 30, 2024 at 12:31 AM
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Watching Moby Dick last night (Huston/Peck, as suggested), the girl was struck by the storm scene. That brought to mind this amazing photograph of the Garthsnaid by Alexander Harper Turner in 1920.
November 29, 2024 at 3:45 PM
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New book review:
Erich on Palsson, Gisli: _Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction, The_. Princeton University Press, 2024. Published by H-Environment.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20041999...
Palsson, Gisli. The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. 328 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780691230986. Reviewed by Scott T. Erich (University of Virginia) Published on H-Environment (August, 2024) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
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August 26, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Starting now!!
📣 We are delighted to welcome Prof. Mandana Limbert for the final Howell talk of the 2023-2024 academic year on Zoom this Friday, April 26!

ZAKĀT, TAXATION, AND STATEHOOD IN THE BUREIMI DISPUTE

Join us and register here! virginia.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

menasky
April 26, 2024 at 3:59 PM
📣 We are delighted to welcome Prof. Mandana Limbert for the final Howell talk of the 2023-2024 academic year on Zoom this Friday, April 26!

ZAKĀT, TAXATION, AND STATEHOOD IN THE BUREIMI DISPUTE

Join us and register here! virginia.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

menasky
April 24, 2024 at 11:10 AM
Happy to share an essay about the history/promise/perils of fish farming in the Gulf of Oman as a part of this great series
January 26, 2024 at 6:49 PM
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Coastal Futures, the latest series in our Theorizing the Contemporary Editor's Forum is now out!
Coastal Futures
Over the last fifty years, efforts to create, plan, and manage coastal zones have multiplied globally in the face of threats posed by intensifyin...
culanth.org
January 25, 2024 at 4:15 PM
honey wake up the pope just dropped a new apostolic exhortation on the climate crisis

www.vatican.va/content/fran...
October 4, 2023 at 3:40 PM
Have you ever wondered why a Saudi dairy company purchased an alfalfa farm in Arizona, or why Omani date palms were transplanted to the American southwest? Have you stopped to consider what these things might teach us about empire as a joint project?? This is the talk for you!!
Folks: Natalie Koch is giving a Zoom talk about her excellent new book, ARID EMPIRE: THE ENTANGLED FATES OF ARIZONA AND ARABIA on October 6th – join us!

Register here:
virginia.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
October 3, 2023 at 5:22 PM
Folks: Natalie Koch is giving a Zoom talk about her excellent new book, ARID EMPIRE: THE ENTANGLED FATES OF ARIZONA AND ARABIA on October 6th – join us!

Register here:
virginia.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
September 25, 2023 at 8:27 PM
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I'm so pleased to be able to share a cover for my forthcoming poetry book, *Sailing without Ahab* - plus a few notes on the wayward origins of this strange project!

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September 18, 2023 at 1:30 PM
once again thinking about Marx and Melville’s helical-vortical view of history
September 6, 2023 at 7:15 PM
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Hey @scotterich.bsky.social - you may want to take a look at this book as it’s relates to a few things you are thinking about ❤️from LA times environmental reporter ROSANNA XIA
August 19, 2023 at 8:00 PM