Marta Domínguez Delmás – The Conversation

Panoramic view of the Batavia ship exterior oak planking. Patrick E. Baker/Western Australian Museum

November 24, 2021

We studied the tree rings of the Batavia shipwreck timbers – they told us much about global seafaring history

Wendy van Duivenvoorde, Flinders University; Aoife Daly, University of Copenhagen, and Marta Domínguez Delmás, University of Amsterdam

Archival records of Dutch timber trade before 1650 are rare or lost. But the wooden timbers of the Batavia contain many secrets.

Researchers compared the shipwreck history to tree ring data from slash pines to piece together the hurricane history over past centuries. Grant Harley

March 9, 2016

Shipwreck records and tree rings unveil Caribbean hurricane history – and clues to the future

Valerie Trouet, University of Arizona; Grant Harley, The University of Southern Mississippi, and Marta Domínguez Delmás, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

In an attempt to better understand hurricanes, researchers recreate hundreds of years of hurricane records with Spanish shipwreck logs and tree ring data.

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