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Spatial orientation, navigation, & wave piloting in the Marshall Islands with Hugo Spiers & Joe Genz

Like several of the traditional cultures in the Pacific, navigators of the Marshall Islands share an incredible ability to find their way 100s of km over open ocean canoe voyages without GPS, compass or charts. The title of 'navigator' was only approved by those with expert knowledge who had undergone a significant set challenge to navigate at sea. The Marshallese developed 'stick charts' to help apprentice navigators learn and understand how atolls and islands disrupt the regular patterning of ocean swells and currents. In a unique system of wave piloting, navigators remotely sense the distance and location of islands based on embodied knowledge of the waves. In this Webinar Prof Joseph Genz (University of Hawai'i at Hilo) will present his anthropological work exploring the traditional knowledge of navigation in the Marshall Islands. This research included GPS tracking of the routes of a trained navigator and documenting his understanding. Prof Hugo Spiers (University College London) will then discuss his new collaboration with Prof Genz bringing psychological and neuroscience methods to understand the navigation process. They will discuss their recent trip to the Marshall Islands to establish the project and where they hope to take the research. About the speakers: Prof Hugo Spiers is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation. He has spent 25 years studying how the brain supports navigation. In recent research he was studied the navigation skill of over 4 million people via a mobile video game (Sea Hero Quest) and measured the brains of London's licenced taxi drivers who navigate using their memory of London's 26K+ streets (The Knowledge). In upcoming research he will travel to the Marshall Islands to explore traditional oceanic navigation. Prof Joseph H. Genz is an Associate Professor and Chair the Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. He teaches courses on social change in Oceania, cultural anthropology, history of anthropological theory, and oral history research. Joseph serves as the Book and Media Reviews Editor for The Contemporary Pacific: An Interdisciplinary Journal and is the Director of the NSF-funded Islands of Opportunity Alliance (IOA)-LSAMP program, which supports the mentorship of Pacific Islander students in the STEM fields in a regional network spanning 11 campuses. His book, Breaking the Shell, draws from two decades of collaborative research in the Marshall Islands to share the journey of how nuclear refugees from Rongelap and Bikini are reclaiming their maritime heritage by re-learning and revitalizing their navigational system of wave piloting and long-distance canoe voyaging. Helpful links: Joe's website: https://hilo.hawaii.edu/faculty/joegenz/ Joe's book: https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/brea... Hugo's website: https://spierslab.com/ Hugo's twitter: @hugospiers Latest world-map of global navigation scores in Sea Hero Quest: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159... Twitter for Sea Hero Quest: @seaheroquest RIN Website: https://rin.org.uk/ RIN Facebook:   / royalinstituteofnavigation   RIN Twitter:   / at_rin   RIN Linkedin:   / royal-institute-of-navigation