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…
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 –…
Off to New York City, the UN and international negotiations
Part of my job while here in the US is to follow the negotiations of the upcoming treaty on biodiversity protection in areas beyond national jurisdiction, with a special focus (for me) on plastics and the Arctic, with the Arctic ocean being an emerging ocean as the ice is melting and more of it is becoming navigable. The negotiations are taking place for two years in New York City, twice per year, and there was an organizational meeting in April that my friend and colleague Elizabeth Nyman from Texas A&M University at Galveston – where I am affiliated – works, in the Maritime Studies program. The first meeting proper was…
Skatteetaten – updated tips from the origin
So – in searching my own blog and the internet to ensure that I get the correct information in place that will ensure that I get a tax reduction in Norway during my stay in the US – I found this text on a page – and it is approved by the Norwegian tax authorities: It says to: Send in the application for changed tax rate on form RF1102 (which I did not know – so this is new for me – your welcome) Add in a confirmation letter from your employer that has your: Employment information (full time? part time?) Income The project you will work on while in…
My first visit to Texas A&M University at Galveston
The last week of April, I went to Texas to: Meet future colleagues and check out campus; Find areas where I might want to live; Find a house; and Find good schools that belong to the neighborhood of said house. This post is about Texas A&M University at Galveston – where I will be working at the Maritime Studies program with Assistant Professor Elizabeth Nyman – a Political Scientist who works on interdisciplinary maritime issues like myself. The Maritime Studies program itself is interdisciplinary and works in collaboration with other programs at TAMUG. In fact, Maritime Studies students get to choose from classes in archeology, anthropology, history, literature, law, public policy,…
Headshots taken at the ISA conference
I recently attended the International Studies Associations annual meeting in San Fransisco, and I am very happy with my “very happy” headshots – so happy that I am putting them online for all to see 🙂 I smile a lot and laugh a lot – and these are actually pretty representative of how I at least see myself 🙂
Final Report to Fulbright
So, I had to finish a final report to Fulbright as part of my grant, and I would like to share it with you here, because it does show a glimpse of how amazing the year was for our family! Living and Working in Paradise Santa Barbara, California. It is a long way to this gorgeous piece of American Riviera from the rainy and dreary and cold city we live in in the middle of Norway, Trondheim. Don’t get me wrong – we love living in Norway and we quite enjoy our town as well, despite the weather. Enter Santa Barbara on the California coast, with sunny skies over 300…
Home in Norway and it is not as bad as I thought it would be
I have been so scared of this for so long – probably even before I left for the US – the return to Norway… Yet here I am and it is not bad, really… I guess my moms saying is coming true after all – this is what it is in Norwegian and I will attempt to make a fitting translation to English: Det går bedre enn du tror når du tror det går verre enn du frykter. The translation is something along the lines of: It will be better than you think when you think it will be worse than your worst fear. Do you get it? I guess…
Back in Norway
So, I am back in Norway now, and I have filled out the final report for Fulbright, effectively putting an end to this experience and this blog, though I will update on the upcoming culture shock and depression I know is bound to come in a month or two 🙂 One of the questions in the final report – and my answer – was this: Reflect on your Fulbright experience and whether you feel it has played or will play a transformative role in your life, either professionally or personally. Please explain, commenting on the elements of your experience that have made the most compelling impact on you (and/or your…
Last workshops have been finished!
So – on Friday June 8th 2012 I finished up my data-gathering in Southern California with interviews in San Diego, California! I first had a workshop with the Fishermens Working Group in San Diego — https://www.facebook.com/pages/San-Diego-Fishermens-Working-Group/100773763351039 – represented by the President and the Vice President of the organization! We met at Starbucks near the harbor and talked for 4 hours, creating systems thinking conceptuatlizataion diagram and bayesian influence diagrams and conditional probability tables – it was so interesting and exciting and exhausing. The two participants were both also Sea Urchin Divers out of San Diego: http://www.ifqsforfisheries.org/happening/happ_urchindivers.php – which made for a new and exciting group since I have so far not…
