Stone #fishweir aka “me” of the #MarshallIslands. Aligned around the outer edge, atoll large groupings of stone V-shaped weirs can be identified. Structurally, the traps come in two distinct forms: a U-shaped & V-shaped, with a round catch area at the eye of the weir. #coastalhistory #4oceans 1/5
🔥Burning Swamps🔥 book talk: next Tuesday, 16 June, at 4 PM (EET) / 3 PM (CET), in Helsinki in person & online.
Please register here 👇
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This is such a beautiful cover for a history book. Forest and Brännvin! We need more covers like this.
Preserved wicker fish trap dating to the Roman period from #Valkenburg, #Netherlands. One of the traps found in wet sites in the region was identified as a Roman site on a major waterway, where a northern branch of the Rhine River flowed into the North Sea. #coastalhistory #4oceans
Join ICES Workshop to develop methods in determining effort metrics for bottom-contacting static gears (WKSTGEM)
📅5-7 May
🕑13:30-17:00 CET
🌐Online
🗣️Chaired by @jmburgos.bsky.social
⏰Register by Friday 1 May!👉https://www.ices.dk/community/groups/Pages/WKSTGEM.aspx
This is how it looks: the splendid future of 20th c. Irish environmental history! Earlier this month, we celebrated the graduation of Dr Gabriel Coleman & Dr Lily Toomey. It was such a privilege to supervise these two brilliant minds. Watch out for their work! /1
(image posted with permission)
Filmmaker Jeanna Kolesova @jeannakolesova.bsky.social made a moving speculative documentary about peat & peatlands in the USSR, drawing, in part, on stories from my 🔥Burning Swamps🔥. The trailer & stills give you a sense of what I struggled to convey in writing
👉 jeannakolesova.com/in-zombie-fire
Our very own Francis Ludlow featured in the NY Times
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...
These were their topics
Lily Toomey: “'A national resource of primary importance': Transforming Ireland’s peatlands in the twentieth century"
Gabriel Coleman: "Carrying Capacity: Nitrogen and the Intensification of Irish Pasture Systems, 1945-2007"
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