Mwachitsanzo, Ole adayimira NOAA pamisonkhano ya US Delegation ku UNESCO pa Underwater Cultural Heritage, Word Heritage, 1st World Congress on Maritime Heritage and Intergovernmental Oceanographic Committee misonkhano yokhudzana ndi Governance of Large Marine Ecosystems. M'zaka za m'ma 1990 adakhala ndi gawo lotsogola pazokambirana zamitundu yambiri za International Agreement on Titanic, kukhazikitsa Malangizo, ndi malamulo. Ole analinso loya wotsogolera pakukhazikitsa Madera Otetezedwa M'madzi omwe amateteza cholowa chachilengedwe ndi chikhalidwe, kuphatikiza Florida Keys, Stellwagen Bank, ndi Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuaries kuphatikiza milandu ingapo yoteteza kugwiritsa ntchito malamulo achilengedwe / cholowa motsutsana ndi zovuta zomwe zili pansi palamulo. wa salvage.
Ole monga woyimira wamkulu wa NOAA pamilandu yokhudza USS Monitor, komanso kusweka kwa zombo ku Florida Keys ndi Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuaries. Ole ali ndi mabuku ambiri ovomerezeka okhudza kuteteza chikhalidwe chathu komanso cholowa chathu. Mwachitsanzo, maphunziro ake a Underwater Cultural Heritage Law Study ali patsamba la UNESCO ndipo amagwiritsidwa ntchito ngati chida chothandizira maboma ndi maphunziro. Chidule cha kafukufukuyu, "Kutseka Mipata Poteteza Chikhalidwe Chachikhalidwe Cham'madzi Pansi pa Shelf ya Continental" idasindikizidwa mu Vol. 33:2 ya Stanford Environmental Law Journal 251 (March 2014). Ndi katswiri wazamalamulo Prof. Mariano Aznar-Gómez, Ole adafalitsa "The Titanic as Underwater Cultural Heritage: Challenges to its Legal International Protection," mu Vol 44 ya Ocean Development & International Law 96-112; Ole adalemba mutu wa US Law pa UCH mu kafukufuku wofananira wamalamulo wolembedwa ndi katswiri wazamalamulo, Dr. Sarah Dromgoole mutu wakuti: The Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage: National Perspectives in Light of the UNESCO Convention 2001(Martinus Nijhoff, 2006) . Ole adathandizira kufalitsa kwa UNESCO: Underwater Cultural Heritage at Risk ndi nkhani ya RMS Titanic NESCO/ICOMOS, 2006).
Ole ndi wolemba nawo limodzi ndi Woweruza wakale wa Sherry Hutt, komanso loya Caroline Blanco pa Bukhu: Lamulo la Zachilengedwe: Kuteteza Chilengedwe cha Archaeological and Cultural (Wiley, 1999). Kuti mudziwe zambiri za chikhalidwe, chilengedwe ndi World Heritage onani mndandanda wazofalitsa zomwe zikupezeka pa https://www.gc.noaa.gov/gcil_varmer_bio.html. Ole anali loya wotsogolera pakupanga gawo lazamalamulo mu NOAA Risk Assessment for Potentially Polluting Wrecks in US Waters, lipoti ku USCG (May, 2013). Iye tsopano ndi Senior Fellow ku The Ocean Foundation akuthandizira kuphatikizika kwa UCH mu ntchito ndi cholinga cha bungwe lopanda phindu.