Looking forward to the Digital Collections Summit 2024, held by MuseumNext, which does a great job on these virtual events.

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MuseumNext : Digital Collections Summit 2026

If you’re struggling to keep up with the ever changing nature of museum collections, this virtual conference is for you. Museums around the world...

(Am not a museum professional but have been lucky enough to do several freelance projects with the MIT Museum, and occasionally blog about museums.)

museum – Eric Bender

#museum

Well, this is timely: Boston's "Deployables Day" will demonstrate the uses of temporary flood barriers, useful bandaids that will be increasingly popular in an era of storms such as Helene.

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Deployables Day

Join us for Deployables Day, a citywide training exercise on temporary flood protection Boston is among the most vulnerable cities in the country t...

#climatechange #climatecrisis #flood #Helene #sealevelrise

Eye on the Fertile Crescent: Life Along the Mideast’s Fabled Rivers A series of dams and years of conflict have transformed the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which gave rise to some of the world’s earliest civilizations. Kurdish photographer Murat Yazar focused his lens on these rivers of his homeland and on the people who live alongside them.

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Eye on the Fertile Crescent: Life Along the Mideast’s Fabled Rivers

A series of dams and years of conflict have transformed the Tigris and Euphrates&#...

#environment #climatechange #ecosystems #river

Outstanding WaPost story on Galveston: Where the sea wall ends The ocean is eating away at this barrier island and others like it. But humans, who have held their ground here for over a century, are planning new condos. https://wapo.st/3ZyomGs (shared, we hope) "Since 2010, Galveston has experienced a burst of sea level rise, which has added a staggering 8 inches to the ocean’s height here... The rise is being exacerbated by fast-sinking land." #climatecrisis #climatechange #sealevelrise

#silentsunday #CapeCod

#silentsunday #CapeCod

For maritime history geeks: The remarkable careers of Thomas Watson, co-inventor of the telephone, founder of a gigantic shipyard, geology researcher and Shakespearean actor.

History of the harbor – Eric Bender

#history #Boston #maritime #entrepreneur

This coastal tribe has a radical vision for fighting sea-level rise in the Hamptons Next to some of the priciest real estate in the world, the Shinnecock Nation refuses to merely retreat from its vulnerable shoreline.

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This coastal tribe has a radical vision for fighting sea-level rise in the Hamptons

Next to some of the priciest real estate in the world, the Shinnecock Nation refuses to merely retreat from its vulnerable shoreline.

#sealevelrise #climatechange #climatecrisis #environmentaljustice

Reportedly owned by billionaire Lorenzo Fertitta, the 285-foot superyacht Lonian in Boston harbor this morning, with its 220-foot supertender Hobor on the left. #Boston #harbor #billionaires @npub1zgtw...c69a

Tied up in downtown Boston this morning, this is not a superyacht but a *supertender*. The 220-foot Holder can carry five smaller tenders plus jet skis, quad bikes, a submarine garage, a helipad and a large crew... to support the 287-foot superyacht Lonian tied up nearby. #Boston #harbor #billionaires