Michael L Brennan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4240835 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael L Brennan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael L |
| FAMILY NAME | Brennan |
| SIGNATURE | BRENNAN M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Search Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8956-8692 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Erasing History
Illegal industrial-scale salvage of World War II shipwrecks across the Asia–Pacific has escalated over the past decade, resulting in the destruction of historically significant naval vessels, war graves, and maritime heritage sites. Once protected by remoteness, depth, or sovereign immunity, wrecks such as HMS Prince of Wales, HMS Repulse, HNLMS De Ruyter, HNLMS Java, HMAS Perth (I), and USS Houston have been systematically stripped or entirely r…
The Archeology of Oil Tanker Shipwrecks and Their Potential to Pollute
Oil tanker shipwrecks represent both cultural heritage and environmental risk. These wrecks are historically significant as war graves and simultaneously pose long-term threats to marine ecosystems through the potential release of petroleum cargo. During World War II, German U-boats targeted tankers along the U.S. East Coast, especially during Operation Drumbeat in 1942. Hundreds of tankers were sunk globally, and many of these wrecks remain inta…
Discovery and Archaeological Characterization of the Wreck of ex-USS Stewart (DD-224) in Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary
A Forgotten Maritime Highway
This article seeks to complement efforts to summarize information on the exceptional natural significance of the Emperor Seamounts. The human history of the Emperor Seamounts is culturally diverse and spans thousands of years. This ranges from indigenous cultures to the period of European colonial exploration and expansion to the rise of the modern global economy and its impact on the area through the hunting of marine mammals, fishing, and the t…
Blake Plateau
The Blake Plateau and the adjacent waters and sea beds of the U.S. continental shelf and Blake Ridge are a long-standing water highway, a place of significant events and common marine activities from centuries past to the present. It has scientific significance as well as cultural meaning, especially within the context of the Gullah/Geechee people of the region whose ancestors were brought against their will in the Middle Passage voyages of the t…
The Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Simulated Nuclear Battlefield at Bikini Atoll
Late Nineteenth-Century Bulk Trade and Barges
The Gulf of Mexico emerged as an American maritime frontier in the nineteenth century. Maritime activities expanded and matured in terms of technology, scope, and scale. The commerce of an emerging nation left a substantial archaeological record on the seabed in the Gulf and on the ocean highway heading out of the Gulf and to the southern Atlantic coast of the United States as well as into Central and South American and Caribbean ports. Sailing v…
Wreck 15377
A shipwreck discovered in 2005 and subsequently studied in 2013 and 2017 is the remains of a copper-sheathed, early to mid-nineteenth-century sailing vessel. It appears to be of the type known as a “packet ship” that sank in the Gulf of Mexico in the area of Viosca Knoll sometime between 1830 and 1860. The site is a substantially intact, undisturbed wreck from a key period in the nineteenth-century development of the Gulf of Mexico. During this p…
Ninteenth-Century Shipwrecks and the Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Gulf of Mexico
Fishing in the Gulf of Mexico in the Nineteenth Century
The Gulf of Mexico emerged as an American fishing frontier in the nineteenth century. Maritime activities expanded and matured in terms of technology, scope, and scale. This activity left a substantial archaeological record on the seabed in the Gulf. Two deep-water shipwrecks offer archaeologically well-preserved, essentially undisturbed opportunities to assess vessels likely engaged in the fishing industry in and around the Gulf in the nineteent…
Site Formation Processes and Pollution Risk Mitigation of World War II Oil Tanker Shipwrecks
Wreck 15563
A wooden shipwreck of the first half of the nineteenth century in the Gulf of Mexico was documented and studied in 2022. The site is largely devoid of artifacts, which may suggest the vessel was partially salvaged prior to sinking. Its most dominant feature is an iron ship’s stove or camboose that is uniquely configured when compared to other known archaeological examples. The camboose may be evidence of a whaling context for the wreck, which for…
The hidden landscape
The human history of the waters surrounding the Salas y Gómez and Nazca ridges is rich and culturally diverse. This ranges from indigenous cultures who first ventured to this remote region close to a thousand years ago to the period of European colonial exploration, as well as the rise of the modern global economy. Voyaging, fishing, and the transportation of commodities across these remote waters left signs of the human history of exploration an…
Discovery and Initial Documentation of USS Nevada (BB-36)
Shipwrecks and the Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Gulf of the Farallones
The Knidos Q and Marmaris D Shipwrecks
Deep-water shipwrecks in the East Mediterranean
Deep-water shipwrecks provide an opportunity to investigate ships away from the destructive dynamics of coastlines and approaches to harbors where most ancient wrecks to date have been found. Such exploration expands the potential for finding wrecks of periods for which relatively few are known. One such period is the 6th and 7th c. in the E Mediterranean. Studies of cargo assemblages from the few known wrecks of the later Roman period reveal a p…
Geoarchaeology and tropical forest soil catenas of northwestern Belize
USS Independence’s Aircraft
Telepresence-Enabled Maritime Archaeological Exploration in the Deep
Archaeological Survey of the Ex-USS Bugara (SS/AGSS331)
Archaeological Survey of the Ex-USS Independence (CVL22)
The Ereğli E Shipwreck, Turkey
A shipwreck from the early 3rd century BC was discovered in the Black Sea's suboxic depths off Ereğli, Turkey, during the 2011 E/V Nautilus expedition. Remote investigation revealed the trawl-damaged remains of a merchant ship carrying multiple amphora types associated with Aegean and Pontic production areas. Also discovered were elements of the ship's hull that show evidence of both pegged mortise-and-tenon and laced construction. The wreck prov…
High-resolution Imaging of the M/S Dodekanisos Shipwreck Site off Deveboynu Burnu, Turkey
Preliminary geochemical assessment of limestone resources and stone use at Maya sites in the Three Rivers Region, Belize
Preliminary geochemical assessment of limestone resources and stone use at Maya sites in the Three Rivers Region, Belize
Shipwrecks and the Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Gulf of the Farallones
Telepresence-Enabled Maritime Archaeological Exploration in the Deep
The Ereğli E Shipwreck, Turkey
A shipwreck from the early 3rd century BC was discovered in the Black Sea's suboxic depths off Ereğli, Turkey, during the 2011 E/V Nautilus expedition. Remote investigation revealed the trawl-damaged remains of a merchant ship carrying multiple amphora types associated with Aegean and Pontic production areas. Also discovered were elements of the ship's hull that show evidence of both pegged mortise-and-tenon and laced construction. The wreck prov…
Small Caves and Sacred Geography
Contemporary research on prehispanic Maya landscapes has focused on caves as core features of the cultural geography. Investigations within a number of large caves have suggested that they served as the loci for important rituals, legitimized inhabitants' claims to their territory, and helped establish the authority of a site's ruling elite. The ubiquity and centrality of caves in the Maya worldview raises questions about what happened in regions…
Archaeological Survey of the Ex-USS Independence (CVL22)
The Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Simulated Nuclear Battlefield at Bikini Atoll
Ninteenth-Century Shipwrecks and the Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Gulf of Mexico
Site Formation Processes and Pollution Risk Mitigation of World War II Oil Tanker Shipwrecks
Wreck 15563
A wooden shipwreck of the first half of the nineteenth century in the Gulf of Mexico was documented and studied in 2022. The site is largely devoid of artifacts, which may suggest the vessel was partially salvaged prior to sinking. Its most dominant feature is an iron ship’s stove or camboose that is uniquely configured when compared to other known archaeological examples. The camboose may be evidence of a whaling context for the wreck, which for…
USS Independence’s Aircraft
A Forgotten Maritime Highway
This article seeks to complement efforts to summarize information on the exceptional natural significance of the Emperor Seamounts. The human history of the Emperor Seamounts is culturally diverse and spans thousands of years. This ranges from indigenous cultures to the period of European colonial exploration and expansion to the rise of the modern global economy and its impact on the area through the hunting of marine mammals, fishing, and the t…
Blake Plateau
The Blake Plateau and the adjacent waters and sea beds of the U.S. continental shelf and Blake Ridge are a long-standing water highway, a place of significant events and common marine activities from centuries past to the present. It has scientific significance as well as cultural meaning, especially within the context of the Gullah/Geechee people of the region whose ancestors were brought against their will in the Middle Passage voyages of the t…
Fishing in the Gulf of Mexico in the Nineteenth Century
The Gulf of Mexico emerged as an American fishing frontier in the nineteenth century. Maritime activities expanded and matured in terms of technology, scope, and scale. This activity left a substantial archaeological record on the seabed in the Gulf. Two deep-water shipwrecks offer archaeologically well-preserved, essentially undisturbed opportunities to assess vessels likely engaged in the fishing industry in and around the Gulf in the nineteent…
Deep-water shipwrecks in the East Mediterranean
Deep-water shipwrecks provide an opportunity to investigate ships away from the destructive dynamics of coastlines and approaches to harbors where most ancient wrecks to date have been found. Such exploration expands the potential for finding wrecks of periods for which relatively few are known. One such period is the 6th and 7th c. in the E Mediterranean. Studies of cargo assemblages from the few known wrecks of the later Roman period reveal a p…
Archaeological Survey of the Ex-USS Bugara (SS/AGSS331)
High-resolution Imaging of the M/S Dodekanisos Shipwreck Site off Deveboynu Burnu, Turkey
Geological Survey of Historical Cemeteries, Jamestown, Rhode Island, 1693–1900
Geological Survey of Historical Cemeteries, Jamestown, Rhode Island, 1693–1900
Small Caves and Sacred Geography
Contemporary research on prehispanic Maya landscapes has focused on caves as core features of the cultural geography. Investigations within a number of large caves have suggested that they served as the loci for important rituals, legitimized inhabitants' claims to their territory, and helped establish the authority of a site's ruling elite. The ubiquity and centrality of caves in the Maya worldview raises questions about what happened in regions…
High-resolution Imaging of the M/S Dodekanisos Shipwreck Site off Deveboynu Burnu, Turkey
Preliminary geochemical assessment of limestone resources and stone use at Maya sites in the Three Rivers Region, Belize
The Ereğli E Shipwreck, Turkey
A shipwreck from the early 3rd century BC was discovered in the Black Sea's suboxic depths off Ereğli, Turkey, during the 2011 E/V Nautilus expedition. Remote investigation revealed the trawl-damaged remains of a merchant ship carrying multiple amphora types associated with Aegean and Pontic production areas. Also discovered were elements of the ship's hull that show evidence of both pegged mortise-and-tenon and laced construction. The wreck prov…
Geoarchaeology and tropical forest soil catenas of northwestern Belize
USS Independence’s Aircraft
Telepresence-Enabled Maritime Archaeological Exploration in the Deep
Archaeological Survey of the Ex-USS Bugara (SS/AGSS331)
Archaeological Survey of the Ex-USS Independence (CVL22)
Shipwrecks and the Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Gulf of the Farallones
The Knidos Q and Marmaris D Shipwrecks
Deep-water shipwrecks in the East Mediterranean
Deep-water shipwrecks provide an opportunity to investigate ships away from the destructive dynamics of coastlines and approaches to harbors where most ancient wrecks to date have been found. Such exploration expands the potential for finding wrecks of periods for which relatively few are known. One such period is the 6th and 7th c. in the E Mediterranean. Studies of cargo assemblages from the few known wrecks of the later Roman period reveal a p…
The hidden landscape
The human history of the waters surrounding the Salas y Gómez and Nazca ridges is rich and culturally diverse. This ranges from indigenous cultures who first ventured to this remote region close to a thousand years ago to the period of European colonial exploration, as well as the rise of the modern global economy. Voyaging, fishing, and the transportation of commodities across these remote waters left signs of the human history of exploration an…
Discovery and Initial Documentation of USS Nevada (BB-36)
Late Nineteenth-Century Bulk Trade and Barges
The Gulf of Mexico emerged as an American maritime frontier in the nineteenth century. Maritime activities expanded and matured in terms of technology, scope, and scale. The commerce of an emerging nation left a substantial archaeological record on the seabed in the Gulf and on the ocean highway heading out of the Gulf and to the southern Atlantic coast of the United States as well as into Central and South American and Caribbean ports. Sailing v…
Wreck 15377
A shipwreck discovered in 2005 and subsequently studied in 2013 and 2017 is the remains of a copper-sheathed, early to mid-nineteenth-century sailing vessel. It appears to be of the type known as a “packet ship” that sank in the Gulf of Mexico in the area of Viosca Knoll sometime between 1830 and 1860. The site is a substantially intact, undisturbed wreck from a key period in the nineteenth-century development of the Gulf of Mexico. During this p…
Ninteenth-Century Shipwrecks and the Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Gulf of Mexico
Fishing in the Gulf of Mexico in the Nineteenth Century
The Gulf of Mexico emerged as an American fishing frontier in the nineteenth century. Maritime activities expanded and matured in terms of technology, scope, and scale. This activity left a substantial archaeological record on the seabed in the Gulf. Two deep-water shipwrecks offer archaeologically well-preserved, essentially undisturbed opportunities to assess vessels likely engaged in the fishing industry in and around the Gulf in the nineteent…
Site Formation Processes and Pollution Risk Mitigation of World War II Oil Tanker Shipwrecks
Wreck 15563
A wooden shipwreck of the first half of the nineteenth century in the Gulf of Mexico was documented and studied in 2022. The site is largely devoid of artifacts, which may suggest the vessel was partially salvaged prior to sinking. Its most dominant feature is an iron ship’s stove or camboose that is uniquely configured when compared to other known archaeological examples. The camboose may be evidence of a whaling context for the wreck, which for…
Discovery and Archaeological Characterization of the Wreck of ex-USS Stewart (DD-224) in Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary
A Forgotten Maritime Highway
This article seeks to complement efforts to summarize information on the exceptional natural significance of the Emperor Seamounts. The human history of the Emperor Seamounts is culturally diverse and spans thousands of years. This ranges from indigenous cultures to the period of European colonial exploration and expansion to the rise of the modern global economy and its impact on the area through the hunting of marine mammals, fishing, and the t…
Blake Plateau
The Blake Plateau and the adjacent waters and sea beds of the U.S. continental shelf and Blake Ridge are a long-standing water highway, a place of significant events and common marine activities from centuries past to the present. It has scientific significance as well as cultural meaning, especially within the context of the Gullah/Geechee people of the region whose ancestors were brought against their will in the Middle Passage voyages of the t…
The Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Simulated Nuclear Battlefield at Bikini Atoll
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