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…
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…
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…
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…
