The Wandering Researcher

Researcher mom on the move!

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Getting my first Fulbright in 2011
Just arrived in Santa Barbara
Yay, here I am with my cool new perfect bike! I love California!
Daddy comes to Santa Barbara
Bella and Mom, fun in the sun!
The whole gang minus dad!
My then three kiddos in California
  • Dissemination,  H2020,  Popular Science,  Smartfish,  TV

    Interview with “All About Money”

    February 4, 2021 /

    I was recently interviewed by the Hong Kong International Business Channel about whether commercial fishing can be made more efficient and sustainable – within the framework of the Smartfish project. Smartfish is an international research initiative that’s developing high-tech systems for the fishing industry, including methods for scanning catch in real-time. I was interviewed in two roundsv – about 12 minutes each – by journalist Dhruv Tikekar. This is the link to Part 2 of the interview: https://fb.watch/3oNEsNjVtj/

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    Aberdeen – 2nd annual meeting for Smartfish

    February 8, 2020

    More GoJelly! A Serious Game!

    June 19, 2020

    Secure Fisheries Symposium in Colorado

    November 9, 2018
  • Dissemination,  H2020,  Popular Science,  Smartfish,  TV

    Interview with CNN

    November 18, 2020 /

    My colleage John Reidar Mathiassen and I were interviewed by CNN internationals series Business Evolved recently about a Horizon2020 project SINTEF Ocean coordinates – Smartfish – this is the finished product! We were interviewed the entire day – and it all ended up with this 3 minute video that was aired on CNN – along with a story about the project. Click on the picture below to go directly to the CNN page where the video and the interview is located. You can also find it here: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/19/business/smart-tech-fishing-spc-intl/index.html

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    Interview with “All About Money”

    February 4, 2021

    The Once and Future Treaty – newest published article

    November 10, 2018

    Blog post in the Washington Post

    September 19, 2018
  • Conference,  Dissemination,  fisheries,  GoJelly,  H2020,  Jellyfish

    South Africa, jellyfish and infiltrating a natural science conference

    November 6, 2019 /

    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 – and possibility as use as a resource. I had the honor of kicking off the session with discussing GoJelly results from WP7 (Socio-Ecological System and Games), specifically the results from the questionnaire that was sent out throughout Europe in autumn of 2018. This questionnaire, which was distributed in 8 different languages and sent out via Facebook…

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    TEDx style talk – how to prepare

    November 5, 2018

    YES – I am going to the UN meeting!

    July 17, 2018

    Another article on the BBNJ treaty published

    August 7, 2019
  • Article published,  BBNJ,  Dissemination,  GoJelly,  publication,  UN

    As the third round of BBNJ negotiations start in NYC…

    August 20, 2019 /

    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 block). This article that we published today – as the third substantive session of negotiations started yesterday in NYC – is a review and our perspectives on the second round of negotiations that took place in March and April of this year – published in Marine Policy. Abstract to “A soft treaty, hard to reach: The second…

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    Skatteetaten – updated tips from the origin

    May 30, 2018

    A rare trip to Oslo – mid-pandemic

    September 18, 2020

    Brussels and the 18 month review

    January 27, 2020
  • Article published,  Dissemination,  GoJelly,  Plastic pollution,  publication,  Rachel

    Article on the Plasticene

    May 8, 2019 /

    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…

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    Headshots taken at the ISA conference

    April 4, 2018

    Bergen – January 2020

    January 5, 2020

    Secure Fisheries Symposium in Colorado

    November 9, 2018
  • Conference,  Dissemination,  GoJelly,  H2020,  On the move,  Traveling

    ISA conference in Toronto, Canada

    March 31, 2019 /

    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…

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    Interview with “All About Money”

    February 4, 2021

    Off to New York City, the UN and international negotiations

    September 15, 2018

    Brussels and the 18 month review

    January 27, 2020
  • Dissemination,  Popular Science,  Social Media,  Traveling

    Instagram – come follow me there too!

    February 13, 2019 /

    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 🙂

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    Interview with “All About Money”

    February 4, 2021

    Planning for visiting scholar years with family – where to go?

    March 19, 2018

    Annual Meeting – Smartfish

    February 16, 2021
  • Dissemination,  Rachel,  Regimes,  Svalbard

    Book chapter in volume on Ocean Governance

    February 8, 2019 /

    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 –…

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    Interview with CNN

    November 18, 2020

    Annual Meeting – Smartfish

    February 16, 2021

    Countdown is ON!

    July 22, 2018
  • Dissemination,  Popular Science,  publication,  Research

    Blog post in the Washington Post

    September 19, 2018 /

    So my friends and I who went to New York City for the negotiations for the Biodiversity treaty approached the blog Monkey Cage in the Washington Post after the fact and asked if they would be interested in an article about precisely what you could learn from the negotiations. They were interested and seldom have we worked so fast and so well in order to reach a very tight deadline for this article to get out in a timely fashion, as soon after the negotiations as possible. I mentioned the article in my post about the negotiations themselves but I feel it deserves a post in itself to highlight the…

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    BBNJ treaty negotiations

    April 6, 2019

    Countdown is ON!

    July 22, 2018

    Getting ready for the 2nd round of BBNJ negotiations in NYC

    February 13, 2019

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So.cold.in.Norway ❄️🥶 thats steam from the So.cold.in.Norway ❄️🥶 thats steam from the fjord. Steam. The fjord is cold! It’s steaming because compared to the air, it’s bubbly warm! I’ll just keep on home-officing inside!
New day - New interview! - this time with Hong Kon New day - New interview! - this time with Hong Kong International Business Channel about #smartfishh2020 @sintefhq
Another month of #covid_19 and another project mee Another month of #covid_19 and another project meeting that is online and not in person - this time it’s the @gojelly_eu project that is impacted! I miss seeing my awesome #microplastics and #jellyfish colleagues in person!
Screenshots from our @cnninternational interview f Screenshots from our @cnninternational interview for #businessevolved that aired today! @sintefhq #smartfishh2020
On a rare trip to one of our other @sintefhq offic On a rare trip to one of our other @sintefhq offices - this one in #ålesund on the Norwegian West coast! My colleague showed me around the Norwegian Maritime Competence Center, the #Sustainability think tank @unitedfuturelabnorway and #Newton Møre #sdg
Ready for an election all-nighter - rough day for Ready for an election all-nighter - rough day for my 7th grader tomorrow 😬 #2valg #bidenharris2020
Yesterday, my colleagues and I were given the oppo Yesterday, my colleagues and I were given the opportunity to talk with @cnninternational for the #businessevolved series about the #smartfishh2020 project and @sintefhq role is development of innovative technological solutions for a #sustainable and efficient #fishing industry - filmed by @mhandlykken @synk_media
During these near 8 months of the #covid_19 pandem During these near 8 months of the #covid_19 pandemic travel hiatus, I have learned to really appreciate my diverse neighborhood in all its shades and varieties! #buran #lademoen #trondheim @visittrondheim
“Its not enough to clean the ocean of plastics - “Its not enough to clean the ocean of plastics - we need to stop the flow!” #ethavavmuligheter #lager11  @sintefhq @ntnuoceans @wwfnorge
The annual meeting for the @summerh2020 project ha The annual meeting for the @summerh2020 project has finished - we were in #bilbao last year and on #teams this year. Miss the spontaneous discussions, fun dinners, wine for lunch and artsy historical city by night! Fingers crossed we can have in-person meeting next year!
I may not travel as much anymore but that’s ok w I may not travel as much anymore but that’s ok when my town is as fantastic as this one 🥰
What a great day for work with #stakeholders on th What a great day for work with #stakeholders on the #Microfibre project funded by @forskningsradet at @sintefhq  #marineplastic #plasticpollution
I am at an actual honest to God airport - my first I am at an actual honest to God airport - my first time since the end of February! Day trip to Oslo for a real-life workshop!
Taking my @siphoncoffeetx on a hike in #estenstadm Taking my @siphoncoffeetx on a hike in #estenstadmarka in Norway - we’re a long way from #texas and @houstoncity now!
Celebrating 5 submitted proposals for research gra Celebrating 5 submitted proposals for research grants by opening one of my last bottles of wine from California- @fessparkerwinery #chardonnay
Explorer my owm city of #trondeim and some awesome Explorer my owm city of #trondeim and some awesome #murals #muralstreetart and finished with a falafel burger at #superheroburger - pretty awesome Saturday @visittrondheim
Wandering in Norway is not complete without #kvikk Wandering in Norway is not complete without #kvikklunsj and mountains! #godsommernorge  #sommer2020 #ekkertind #hikersofinstagram
Hiking with my friends, wandering the Norwegian wi Hiking with my friends, wandering the Norwegian wilderness ❤️
My Saturday office at @starbucks downtown- crunch My Saturday office at @starbucks downtown- crunch time when project proposal deadlines are coming up for both @forskningsradet and #horizon2020 at the beginning of September 😅
And so it begins - my oldest child starts his BA i And so it begins - my oldest child starts his BA in International Studies at @unioslo - and I am a parent on campus, taking the tour and  bursting with pride 🤩
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