Time is coming to an end for my Fulbright year in Texas
Incredibly enough, ten months of our time here in Texas is almost upon us, and after 11 months, we go on a 1 month roadtrip before we fly back to Norway to restart our “normal” life. Has the year been what i expected? Yes – just more! I expected to get a lot of work done on articles, working with my colleague Elizabeth Nyman closely, and we have done so. We have worked on a lot of articles and so far this year, I have five published works (one book chapter and four articles), and I also have two Revise and Resubmits in the work, as well as one that…
Svalbard, Arctic shipping routes and port development – newest article
The newest article co-written by myself and my colleagues at Texas A&M University at Galveston just got published in Maritime Studies – https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-019-00143-4 Svalbard, which I have written about several times since I started my PhD studies in 2005, is and island group that is located in the Arctic Ocean, and is administered by Norway through the 1920 Svalbard Treaty. Due to its strategic location, the increasing activities of oil/gas exploration development and the possibilities of new routes to and from Europe and Asia using the Arctic passage, Svalbard represent a new potential development area within a new efficient transport route. The aim of this paper was to investigate Svalbard’s…
Article on the Plasticene
My newest article – Who cares about ocean acidification in the Plasticene? – was recently published Open Access in Ocean &. Coastal Management. I wrote it in collaboration with a number of fantastic researchers from all over Europe: Francisco Arenas – Aquatic Ecology & Evolution Group, CIIMAR-UP, Porto, Portugal Charles Galdies – Environmental and Management Planning Division, Institute of Earth Systems, University of Malta, Msida, Malta Francisco Leitão – Center of Marine Science (CCMAR), University of Algarve, Portugal Alenka Malej – National Institute of Biology, Marine Biology Station Piran, Slovenia Beatriz Martinez Romera – Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Cosimo Solidoro – Instituto Nazionale Di Oceanografia e Di…
BBNJ treaty negotiations
The second Intergovernmental Conferene (IGCII) started on March 25th and lasted until April 5th 2019 in New York City. I once again was fortunate enough to be able to participate in the negotiations as an observer, and along with my colleagues Elizabeth Nyman, Elizabeth Mendenhall and Elizabeth De Santo, we spent two weeks gathering data, interviewing participants, developing a database of delegate and NGO/IGO interventions, and writing on articles together. It was exhaustive – as per usual – but also every rewarding in terms of not only data gathering but also in terms of experience with following negotiations, and learning more about the informal rules of the game – as…
ISA conference in Toronto, Canada
The International Studies Association held its annual meeting in Toronto, Canada this year – from the 26th – 30th of March 2019. It was a fun experience as always – and I presented two papers together with my colleague here at Texas A&M University at Galveston, Assistant Professor Elizabeth Nyman. I have gone to this conference for 12 years though, since 2007 – and only missed it twice in these years. It is therefore by .far my favorite conference and I love going there – and I have so many great memories of going there and presenting with the Oceans and Fish people that always .go there as well. This…
New Article published in Marine Policy!
Have you ever wondered what multi-trophic aquaculture is? Or have you wondered if there are any environmentally safe options for ensuring a more sustainable aquaculture industry, which in turn would aid in Norway reaching target 14.1 of SDG 14: By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution. My newest article is written by my PhD student John Ellis – who is living in Santa Barbara, California, while pursuing a PhD from NTNU – my alma mater. He is a very talented researcher and has worked on this article with rigor and I am very happy with the…
Instagram – come follow me there too!
So – I made a separate Instagram account for my work travels because I want to remove that part of my life from my private life (and instagram account) – so if you are on Instagram and want to see pictures from not only my work travels but from work in general – my name there is @researchermomonthemove – not very short or sweet – but WanderingReseracher in any kind of form was already taken 🙂
Getting ready for the 2nd round of BBNJ negotiations in NYC
My ISA colleagues and I are planning to attend the second round of negotiations on biodiversity protection in areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ) under UNCLOS in March-April 2019 – and the planning has started. These are the same women that I have now published in the Washington Posts MonkeyCage as well as in Marine Policy with – we informally call ourselves Rachel and the three Elizabeths 🙂 We are all members of the International Studies Association (ISA), which is an NGO accredited to the ECOSOC. This association allows for the distribution of grounds passes for their members, and they can have their members registered as observers to certain UN meetings…
Book chapter in volume on Ocean Governance
My colleague from the Regimes project, Dorothy Dankel, and I recently had published a book chapter in a book called Climate Change and Ocean Governance: Politics and Policy for Threatened Seas published by Cambridge. Citation for book: Harris, P. (Ed.). (2019). Climate Change and Ocean Governance: Politics and Policy for Threatened Seas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108502238 Climate Change and Ocean Governance brings together authors from political science and cognate disciplines to examine the political and policy dimensions of climate change for our oceans. The environmental, social and economic consequences of oceanic change present tremendous challenges for governments and other actors. New and innovative policies for governing oceans and seas –…
A skip, a hop and a dash to Belgium and Greece for a week
January was a crazy month with the Horizon2020 project COASTAL that I am project leader on for SINTEF Ocean, and that I lead a work package on. The project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. It involves a unique multi-actor collaboration of coastal and rural business entrepreneurs, administrations, stakeholders, and natural and social science experts where the aim is to formulate and evaluate business solutions and policy recommendations that in time may improving the coastal-rural synergy and thereby foster rural and coastal development, while still preserving the environment. My role in the project is to lead WP1 on the Multi Actor Analysis. The…
