Aberdeen – 2nd annual meeting for Smartfish
Smartfish is another Horizon 2020 project I am involved in – this one I am Project Leader for and work closely with the SINTEF Ocean team on coordinating the project – and this trip was the second annual meeting – we are halfway through the project, and it was time for us to…
Brussels and the 18 month review
One of the research projects I have a work package leader role in is called COASTAL – and it is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. In this project, we take advantage of a unique multi-actor collaboration of coastal and rural business entrepreneurs, administrations, stakeholders, and natural and…
Bergen – January 2020
As soon as the New Year was over and regular work started, I flew straight over to Bergen to see my good colleague Dorothy and her colleague Jeppe – we are writing a proposal to Horizon2020 on fisheries and I needed input and help from Dorothy – we have worked together for many…
Annual Meeting – GoJelly! in Piran, Slovenia
What an amazing week in Slovenia! I sometimes pinch myself at how lucky I am to get to work on such exciting projects with a fantastic group of people from not only all over Europe – but also from within my own organization and my town! I had never been to Slovenia before…
South Africa, jellyfish and infiltrating a natural science conference
The GoJelly! project has taken me to South Africa now – Cape Town specifically! I was one of the convenors of the session on the Human-Jellyfish Nexus where the aim of the session was to place jellyfish within a larger system – namely the socio-ecological system – and bring attention to its effect…
So – what’s up with Brexit – and the ocean?
Most of you have heard of Brexit, but do you know what the implications may be for the ocean, and the resources that are harvested once the UK goes through with its withdrawal? Together with my colleague Michael Harte at Oregon State University, we have a couple of publications to point you in…
A Quick Trip to Brussels – 18 months of GoJelly to report on!
It is incredible that the crazy fun project GoJelly – a gelatinous solution to plastic pollution – is already done with its first 18 months – and that we are reporting on it too! The report went very well – and I am proud to be part of this team that is looking…
As the third round of BBNJ negotiations start in NYC…
The second article that Elizabeth Mendenhall, Elizabeth Nyman and Elizabeth De Santo and I have written about the BBNJ negotiations in Marine Policy is published – and my fourth article about the negotiations in total so far (two more are under review – and we have at least three more on the writing…
An Arctic conference in Hawaii – yes please!
August 14th-16th 2019, I went to the North Pacific Arctic Conference (NPAC), co-organized by the East-West Center and the Korea Maritime Institute, helt at the international Conference Center in Honolulu – to present on the BBNJ treaty negotiations, as part of my GoJelly project. What a place to hold a conference. Granted – its…
Another article on the BBNJ treaty published
Recently, another article on the treaty negotiations for biodiversity protection in areas beyond national jurisdiction was published – this time I was part of a multi-author group from the Environmental Studies Section of the ISA (International Studies Association). The article is published in the Earth System Governance journal, where one of our authors…
