Notes from AHOY October 2024
Notes from the October 2024 monthly AHOY members meeting including plans for the AIMA year ahead
AHOY September Notes
Notes from the September monthly AHOY members meeting including the guest lecture by Sasha Joura and AIMA's end-of-year event reminders.
AHOY August Notes
Notes from the August monthly AHOY members meeting including the guest lecture by Mark Ryan, the ASEAN Underwater/Maritime Archaeology Association, and AIMA's many updates.
April Ahoy 10/04/2024 06:30 AEST
Tomorrow night 10/04/2024 is the monthly AHOY so please drop in on Zoom and catch up with the community and news from Exec.
The conference is around the corner so there will be plenty of time to ask questions at 6.30 pm AEST.
Watch the time zones as we have switched over with daylight savings. (4.30 AWST; 6.00 ACST; 8.30 NZST)
There is no guest lecture this week!
Agenda
- 6.30 - Community catch up
- 7.00 - Update from Executive Council
AIMA AHOY meeting 14th of February 2024 at 6.30 pm AEDT
- Heritage South Australia's efforts to stabilise the South Australian wreck continue with the involvement of a group also seeking to rehabilitate kelp in the area. Sandbags containing kelp seeds are to be deposited at the site in an effort to combat environmental risks as well as damage from a stormwater drain that has been impacting the shipwreck and local kelp population. Apologies, I don't know the group name to link them - please share with us if you do!
- The Flinders University Australia Awards Fellows from the Asia Pacific region are enjoying their time in Adelaide. The Fellows have received intensive units on legislation, policy and submerged landscapes, and are now on a field school at Mt Dutton Bay. There has been some great knowledge sharing between their respective countries. The Fellows will also complete the Flinders scientific diving micro-credential and a conservation practicum.
- The Flinders Conservation Practicum 26 Feb-1 Mar may still have spaces for people to enrol! See Conservation Practicum - Flinders University for more information.
- The AJMA V47 for 2023 is soon to be released. The Editor is also welcoming articles for V48 2024! Read the author guidelines and email Jeremy at publications@aima-underwater.org.au to enquire or submit your paper. At the AHOY meeting we discussed ways to attract more papers, including updating the AIMA website Publications page to provide easier access to recent and past issues and to show our SCOPUS ranking (which AIMA should receive very soon). Improvements are coming.
- We discussed feedback to reduce online registration costs for the upcoming AIMA Conference in Auckland, as well as the types of bursaries and financial support AIMA could offer to assist with in-person attendance and international online attendance. Exec will approach Council to discuss different ideas.
Heritage Victoria’s Maritime Heritage at Risk Program-2022/23 Annual Report
The Maritime Heritage at Risk Program delivers site management initiatives to protect Victoria’s most significant at-risk shipwrecks and other maritime heritage such as submerged aircraft wrecks.
The 2022/23 Annual Report includes information on conservation, monitoring, compliance and inspections conducted at wreck sites.
The report can be found on: Maritime Heritage at Risk Program Annual Report 2022 23
Further information and past annual reports can be found on Heritage Victoria’s Maritime Heritage at Risk Program webpage: Maritime heritage at risk program.
Deadline extended for article submission to AMJA
If you haven't finished that paper yet then you'll be pleased to know we have extended the deadline for submissions to AMJA this year to 25 June 2022!
Call for submissions AMJA Vol 45 2021
The Editor is now accepting submissions for Volume 45 of the Australasian Journal of Maritime Archaeology (AJMA) 2021. Deadline is the 22 April 2022.
Introducing monthly AOHY meetings for AIMA members
The AIMA Executive team would like to announce a new monthly meeting open to the whole of AIMA membership! These AHOY meetings will be held on the second Wednesday of every month via Zoom starting 9th February.
Heritage Victoria’s Maritime Heritage at Risk Program 2020/21 Annual Report
The 2020/21 Annual Report for Heritage Victoria's Maritime Heritage at Risk Program includes details on conservation at the Amazon wreck, the monitoring of fourteen shipwrecks located in State and Commonwealth waters and inspections conducted at five wreck sites.
Heritage Victoria’s Shipwreck Discovery Program
In September 2021, Heritage Victoria introduced the Shipwreck Discovery Program aimed at encouraging and simplifying the reporting of shipwreck discoveries and to assist the search for Victoria’s top 20 most important missing shipwrecks.
AIMA Scholarships now open
The AIMA 2021 AIMA Scholarship is now open!
