The undergraduate and graduate students of UC San Diego’s Introduction to Maritime and Underwater Archaeology course closed out the 2023 Winter Quarter by hosting a poster exhibition at Birch Aquarium on March 16. During the event sponsored by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego's Latin American Studies, and the SCMA, a total of 76 students engaged with the aquarium’s guests and staff sharing their group research projects, their favorite maritime stories, and personal connections. Students told the story of humanity’s complex interactions with our world’s waterways through a variety of themes and topics including:
 

The 10-week course was taught by SCMA graduate students, Eric Rodriguez-Delgado and Jordan Griffin who applied student-centered and anti-racist teaching practices to instruct the next-generation of underwater archaeologists in the methods and theories that are needed to examine human history with and under the waves. Instead of a final exam, this exhibition allowed students to practice sharing information with the public and was one of many activities students participated in over the quarter. Students provided the following feedback once the quarter had wrapped up, "This course was my favorite one taken at UCSD so far. The lectures in this class will be extremely memorable years from now due to the fun in-class activities. The symposium at the aquarium was an awesome way to end the class!"