The KPMG Maritime Maya Series: The Maya and the Sea

We launch a brand new mini-series with the first episode introducing the Maya and their little-known prowess on the sea. Typically, when one thinks of the Maya, one thinks of the grand cities they created in the interior of Central America, not their ability as seafarers.

Learn more about this intriguing story as told by Dr. Dominique Rissollo, from the Qualcom Institute at the University of California, San Diego.

ABOUT DR. RISSOLO

Dominique Rissolo is an assistant research scientist at the Qualcomm Institute at the University of California, San Diego and co-leads the Cultural Heritage Engineering Initiative (CHEI). He has worked closely with multiple agencies and universities to plan and execute oceanographic research projects using autonomous, remotely operated, and human occupied vehicles as well as vessels for scuba operations. As an archaeologist, Rissolo’s interdisciplinary research focuses on ancient Maya and Paleoamerican cave and cenote use as well as paleocoastal human ecology and the development of ancient maritime trade networks along the Yucatan coast. Rissolo has been actively involved in the development of workflows for the visualization of image-derived data from marine and underwear sites and has enabled collaborating researchers to expand the visual analytics capability developed by CHEI and the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego.

To learn more about the Hoya Negro project or to get in touch with Dr. Rissolo, access these links:

Learn more about Hoyo Negro project: http://hoyonegro.ucsd.edu/

Read more about their dive into Hoyo Negro: https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/feature/div...

Get in touch with Dr. Rissolo via drissolo@ucsd.edu