Work-integrated learning in maritime archaeology: an Australian approach

In recent years the Maritime Archaeology Program (MAP) at Flinders University has developed an innovative work-integrated learning program, in association with industry partners that includes fieldwork opportunities and internships (work-placements). This is largely in response to suggestions from consultancy companies and government agencies about the lack of job-ready skills among maritime archaeology graduate students. This is a very flexible program that aims to provide students with opportunities of at least two weeks and up to 3 months to develop both fieldwork skills and more general work practices. This paper will argue that work-integrated learning assists the graduates to get a position and then helps them to do well in that job. Participating in daily work practices and experiencing fieldwork are seen as keys in producing work-ready graduates

A future for Australian maritime archaeology?

For a small sub-discipline of archaeology, maritime archaeology seems to have had a relatively long and glorious history in Australia. Celebratory reviews or overviews of selected parts of the history of Australian maritime archaeology have been published fairly regularly since the 1986 appearance of Graeme Henderson's book Maritime Archaeology in Australia (Henderson 1986). These publications include two articles that were published in the pages of this journal (Hosty and Stuart 1994; McCarthy 1998). While there is obviously much to be celebrated about the history of maritime archaeology in Australia, a self-critical examination of the state of the sub-discipline with some ideas about where it might be going in the next two or three decades is, I suggest, a useful exercise as we enter the 21st century

Assessing the significance of 20th century underwater cultural heritage

Significance assessment is frequently used to evaluate the importance of archaeological sites both on land and, more recently, underwater. The assessment of significance often determines suitability for legislative protection. Australia has a variable record with regard to the legislative protection of twentieth century underwater cultural heritage, with the current situation being particularly inconsistent. Recent proposed and actual changes to international conventions as well as to Australian national and state legislation and administrative arrangements have created at least five different legislative regimes. This paper will focus on the significant differences that exist in the legislative protection afforded twentieth century underwater cultural heritage in Australia. These arise partly as a result of the case-by-case approach to significance assessment that still exists in South Australia under the SA Historic Shipwrecks Act 1982 compared to the various systems of blanket coverage such as those with a fixed date (of 1900 in Western Australia under the Maritime Archaeology Act) or a rolling date (of 75 years under the Commonwealth Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976). It will also address some of the problems that are becoming apparent with the current exclusive focus by both Commonwealth and State agencies on shipwrecks rather than the totality of underwater cultural heritage. Problems that can only increase with the ratification by Australia of the draft UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage expected to occur during 2002

Underwater Archaeology

An overview of 'Underwater Archaeology'. The article covers a number of key themes in underwater archaeology i.e. methodology and techniques, effects of the environment, sites and structures, artifact conservation, curation, and publication

Archaeology unearthing the invisible people: European women and children and Aboriginal people at South Australian shore-based whaling stations

Archaeological fieldwork in South Australia (the Archaeology of Whaling in South Australia or AWSA project) under the direction of Mark Staniforth, commenced in April 1997, involving the recording and subsequently the excavation of whaling station sites on the Eyre Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, and at Cape Jervis. The aim of this research is to investigate the activities of whalers in South Australia, especially those involved in whaling activity who have been previously neglected, namely women, children and Indigenous peoples. Funding of more than $40,000 for this project and the development of a website has come from a Flinders University URB establishment grant, the Ian Potter Foundation, the Australian National Center for Excellence in Maritime Archaeology (WA Maritime Museum) and a Small ARC grant

Shipwrecks: Images and Perceptions of Nineteenth Century Maritime Disasters

In the nineteenth century the long sea voyage across thousands of miles of open ocean to Australia was a step into the unknown. International migration at this time usually involved travel by sea, as it had in previous centuries. Ships were the primary long distance transportation method and the movement of passengers was one of their most important functions. It has been estimated that more than 1.6 million immigrants travelled to Australia by ship between 1788 and 1900, nearly half of these people were assisted immigrants of one type or another and they came primarily from Great Britain with smaller numbers from Europe (Barrie 1989:121)

Rotated Versions of the Jablonowski Steady‐State and Baroclinic Wave Test Cases: A Dynamical Core Intercomparison

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/95316/1/jame31.pd

Enhanced methane reforming activity of a hydrothermally synthesised co-doped perovskite catalyst

A catalyst for the direct reforming of methane and simulated biogas has been prepared using a green and low temperature hydrothermal method. The nickel and iron co-doped SrZrO3 perovskite shows catalytic activity comparable to 10% Ni/Al2O3, but with an almost 50% saving in nickel content and a significant reduction in unwanted carbon deposition through thermal decomposition of methane and the Boudouard reaction. The use of a catalyst with a low active metal content produced via a hydrothermal route provides an attractive and sustainable method of production of synthesis gas from both methane and biogas for potential use in solid oxide fuel cells

Early Trade Between Canada and Australia and the Wreck of the William Salthouse (1841)

Quebec, Canad