Hamburg, Deutschland
Joined November 2014
The next weeks will be about #marine species in #histknow. Dear #oceanhist #histocean #nathist #envhist #maritimehistory #HistSTM #museum peeps: what is your favourite water animal, plant, mineral & why? Looking forward to stories & #OpenGLAM images. Mythical creatures welcome 🙏🏽
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7/14 As we all know #documentation & #metadata are key in #museum work both for #nathist as well as for #HistSTM . This is a great example form @CardiffCurator showing us their work with #coral and other #oceanhistAPM
Our marine #volunteer Eva is doing a wonderful job photo-documenting & re-boxing the @AmgueddfaCymru coral collection so we & others can see at a glance what we have. This will be an amazing resource to help us make the best use of this collection #Museum30
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8/14 #Coral is a fascinating #oceanhistAPM to talk about "response-ability" for the natural world, as @marioninmcr has recently argued. And I totally agree and love the phrase.
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9/14 Looking at #oceanhistAPM is of course inspired by the environmental problems of today. As we all know, #coral reefs are fragile ecosystems as @IPBES reminds us.
🙅🌎Human activity endangers #coral health 🌊A new #algal threat is taking advantage of coral’s already precarious situation in the #Caribbean & making it harder for reef #ecosystems to grow ✍️@UniofOxford @csunorthridge @carnegiescience @nresearchnews carnegiescience.edu/news/car…
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10/14 #Mapping & #taxonomy are important topics in #HistSTM & #envhist, also concerning #oceanhistAPM. Current work by @WRMarineSpecies and others builds on long (and partly violent) traditions. Here is a collection of #coral reef maps:
Scientists create largest collection of coral reef maps ever made news.miami.edu/rsmas/stories… #marinespecies @marineregions
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11/14 For a #map that visualises humans' dependency on #coral, look at this from @decolonialatlas nitter.net/decolonialatlas/…. #OceanthistAPM also needs to incorporate this aspect.
Over 25% of marine life, rely on coral reefs for food & shelter. Though reefs cover less than 1% of the earth’s surface & less than 2% of the ocean bottom. But humans also benefit from healthy coral in a variety of ways that we call "ecosystem services.” buff.ly/37Z9YK7
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12/14 The #HistSTM of #coral and other #oceanhistAPM is also deeply colonial as @TamaraFernando3 highlights.
Every time I hear posthuman/postanthropocentric comparisons of humans = coral reefs to displace the centrality of Enlightenment “man”, I wonder about the imperial origins of many of these early studies. Here’s some choice plates from William Herdmans 1903-06 reports frm Ceylon
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13/14 This history of #coral includes not only #oceanhistAPM but also land-based species. E.g. #coraltrees. This example from @karnold01 shows entangled histories but also #C18 racist taxonomies, as #CPThunberg's species epithet (Erythrina caffra) shows
While writing today about Jan Andreas Auge, one of the last superintendents of the Dutch Cape Company Garden, he recalled in 1804 nursing a corallodendron, which today is known as the Erythrina caffra (Thunb.), or African coral tree. Apparently, the official tree of Los Angeles!
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14/14 Hope you all enjoyed this short #histknow #histSTM #envhist #oceanhist of #coral . Now I want to hear your #oceanhistAPM stories! 😉
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