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 the direction of knowing precisely more about this. The first is an academic article published in ICES Journal (Countering a climate of instability: the future of relative stability under the Common Fisheries Policy) and the second is a follow-up blog post in Secure Fisheries. What does Brexit have to do with fisheries? Take the comment from the…
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 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…
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…
Blog post in the Washington Post
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…
