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Sir James Matthews Building
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Wed, 28 May, 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm (GMT+01:00)
Sir James Matthews Building
157-187 Above Bar Street, Southampton, United Kingdom
From early settlement to modern day port city, Southampton has relied on the sea for trade and economic prosperity. Southampton Water offers a haven for ships from all over the world and is described as the ‘Gateway to the World’, a working waterfront deeply connected to international commerce, movement, and cultural exchange. But how much affect are we having on our coast and water? Do we celebrate being a waterfront city or have we turn our backs on the sea?
This evening of talks from local academics will highlight some of the opportunities and issues facing our waterfront city. Speakers join us from Infrastructure for Port-cites and Caostal Towns Network, Southampton Marine & Maritime Institute, University of Southampton and SeaCity Museum. Suitable for people over the age of 10 years old.
Andy Skinner Public Historian
Talk hosted by SeaCity Museum SeaCity Museum - Southampton
Inspired by SeaCity Museum’s ‘Southampton: Gateway to the World’ exhibition, this talk explores how and why the town has become such an important maritime centre for commerce and the movement of people.
Speaker Bio:
Andy holds a BA in history from the University of Southampton and an MA in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester. Since 2012 he has worked with Southampton City Council Cultural Services, where he now spends most of his time helping to deliver the learning programme at the SeaCity Museum and Tudor House & Garden.
Dr Felix Pedrotti Maritime Archaeologist Doctor Felix Pedrotti | University of Southampton
Dr Cathy Lucas Associate Professor in Marine Biology Doctor Cathy Lucas | University of Southampton
Panos Manias Maritime Engineer Mr Panos Manias | University of Southampton
Prof Andrew Cundy Professor of Environmental Radiochemistry. Professor Andrew Cundy | University of Southampton
Info: Inspired by SeaCity Museum’s ‘Southampton: Gateway to the World’ exhibition, this talk explores how and why the town has become such an important maritime centre for commerce and the movement of people.Andy holds a BA in history from the University of Southampton and an MA in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester. Since 2012 he has worked with Southampton City Council Cultural Services, where he now spends most of his time helping to deliver the learning programme at the SeaCity Museum and Tudor House & Garden.
Info: Southampton has always been a city shaped by the sea — but today, much of its medieval maritime landscape is hidden, altered, or lost beneath modern development. This presentation explores how new digital technologies, especially laser scanning, are helping us rediscover the maritime character of Medieval Southampton.By mapping surviving structures and fragments across the city, we can start to reconstruct the port’s historic infrastructure — from quays and storehouses to trade routes and urban layout. These scans allow us not only to preserve what remains, but also to reimagine what has been forgotten: a working waterfront deeply connected to international commerce, movement, and cultural exchange.Through this work, we’re bringing the medieval port back into view revealing how Southampton’s identity as a maritime city was physically built into its streets, buildings, and shorelines. It’s a digital archaeology of place & memory, helping us better understand the foundations of the city
Info: Associate Professor in Marine Biology with a broad interest in ecosystem structure and function from the coastal zone to the open ocean. My research has focussed on gelatinous zooplankton and understanding the causes and consequences of jellyfish blooms on marine ecoystems and human activities.
Info: With the aim to decarbonise all shipping activities by 2050, as set by MEPC 80, it is expected that a significant change throughout vessel designs must take place. The utilisation of alternative fuels and powertrains is inevitable, in hopes of eliminating our dependence on fossil fuels and their associated Green House Gas emissions. Many of the proposed alternative fuels within the marine industry appear as ideal solutions when applying a typical Tank to Wake assessment, however, when a complete lifecycle evaluation is employed (Well-to-Wake), results show this may not be the case. For this study, we propose a “Wind-to Wake” approach, where the candidate fuelling propositions are compared in terms of their total renewable energy input requirement over the energy required to carry out voyages, as well as their resulting emissions. The propulsion system propositions investigated are split into LNG, ammonia and methanol combustion scenarios, hydrogen fuel cells with batteries and diesel
Info: Plastics have received widespread attention as an emerging global contaminant and potential health risk, and are now found from the poles to the tropics to the deepest ocean trenches. But what about the local environment? This presentation examines work by University of Southampton researchers on plastics and microplastics in the local coastal and marine environment, and how major estuaries such as Southampton Water act as transfer routes or “filters” for marine plastic pollution. Andy is a Professor in the School of Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, and research director of GAU-Radioanalytical, a radiochemical / environmental consultancy and research unit based at the University’s Waterfront Campus. With a background in oceanography, Andy earned his PhD in Geology from Southampton in 1994 and has since held positions at several UK universities before rejoining Southampton in 2016. He has over 30 years research and teaching experience .
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| General Admission | Free |
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