Piv txwv li, Ole tau sawv cev NOAA ntawm US Delegation rau UNESCO cov rooj sib tham ntawm Underwater Cultural Heritage, Word Heritage, 1st World Congress on Maritime Heritage thiab Intergovernmental Oceanographic Committee cov rooj sib tham txog Kev Tswj Xyuas Kev Lag Luam Loj Marine Ecosystems. Nyob rau xyoo 1990, nws tau ua lub luag haujlwm tseem ceeb hauv kev sib tham ntau sab ntawm Daim Ntawv Pom Zoo Thoob Ntiaj Teb ntawm Titanic, ua raws li Cov Lus Qhia, thiab kev cai lij choj. Ole kuj yog tus kws lij choj hauv kev tsim ntau thaj chaw tiv thaiv Marine uas tiv thaiv cov cuab yeej cuab tam thiab kab lis kev cai, suav nrog Florida Keys, Stellwagen Bank, thiab Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuaries suav nrog ntau qhov xwm txheej tiv thaiv kev siv cov cai lij choj ib puag ncig / cuab yeej cuab tam tiv thaiv kev sib tw raws li txoj cai. ntawm kev cawmdim.
Ole ua tus thawj coj NOAA tus kws lij choj hauv kev sib foob nrog USS Monitor, thiab keeb kwm shipwrecks hauv Florida Keys thiab Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuaries. Ole muaj ntau ntau cov ntaub ntawv raug cai hais txog kev khaws cia ntawm peb cov kab lis kev cai thiab cov cuab yeej cuab tam ntuj. Piv txwv li, nws Underwater Cultural Heritage Law Study yog nyob rau hauv UNESCO lub vev xaib thiab siv los ua cov cuab yeej siv hauv tsoomfwv thiab kev kawm. Cov ntsiab lus ntawm txoj kev tshawb no, "Closing the Gaps in Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage on the Outer Continental Shelf" tau luam tawm nyob rau hauv Vol. 33:2 ntawm Stanford Environmental Law Journal 251 (Lub Peb Hlis 2014). Nrog tus kws tshaj lij kev cai lij choj Prof. Mariano Aznar-Gómez, Ole tau luam tawm "The Titanic li Underwater Cultural Heritage: Challenges to its Legal International Protection," nyob rau hauv Vol 44 of the Ocean Development & International Law 96-112; Ole tau sau tshooj ntawm Teb Chaws Asmeskas Txoj Cai ntawm UCH hauv kev sib piv txoj cai lij choj uas muaj cai muab tso ua ke los ntawm tus kws tshaj lij kev cai lij choj, Dr. Sarah Dromgoole txoj cai: Kev Tiv Thaiv Cov Cuab Yeej Cuab Yeej Cuab Yeej Cuab Yeej Cuab tam hauv qab dej: National Perspectives in Light of the UNESCO Convention 2001(Martinus Nijhoff, 2006) . Ole tau pab txhawb rau UNESCO cov ntawv tshaj tawm: Cov cuab yeej cuab tam hauv dej hauv qab dej ntawm kev pheej hmoo nrog ib tsab xov xwm ntawm RMS Titanic NESCO / ICOMOS, 2006).
Ole kuj yog tus kws sau ntawv nrog yav dhau los Tus Kws Txiav Txim ntawm Sherry Hutt, thiab tus kws lij choj Caroline Blanco ntawm Phau Ntawv: Heritage Resources Law: Tiv Thaiv Archaeological thiab Cultural Ib puag ncig (Wiley, 1999). Yog xav paub ntxiv txog kab lis kev cai, ntuj tsim thiab ntiaj teb cuab yeej cuab tam, saib cov npe ntawm cov ntawv tshaj tawm muaj nyob ntawm https://www.gc.noaa.gov/gcil_varmer_bio.html. Ole yog tus kws lij choj thawj coj hauv kev tsim txoj cai lij choj hauv NOAA Kev Ntsuam Xyuas Kev Nyab Xeeb rau Kev Muaj Peev Xwm Ua Phem Rau Cov Dej Hauv Tebchaws Meskas, ib tsab ntawv ceeb toom rau USCG (Tsib Hlis, 2013). Tam sim no nws yog Senior Fellow ntawm The Ocean Foundation pab kev koom ua ke ntawm UCH rau hauv kev ua haujlwm thiab lub luag haujlwm ntawm lub koom haum tsis muaj txiaj ntsig.
