Dr Joanna Siekiera was recently invited to speak at a Special Lecture titled Climate Change and its Impact on Small Islands Developing States: The Example of the Pacific…
Vehia Wheeler introduces the Ma’ohi Nui project, a collaboration with the Island Lives, Ocean States project aiming to uplift voices, knowledge and perspectives on the ocean among indigenous…
PhD candidate Ashneel Chandra offers a brief outline of his recently published paper, co-authored with his Master’s degree advisor at The University of the South Pacific (USP), Professor…
In 2019, Anja Marie Solheim compiled the Mare Nullius project’s online UN Documents and IPCC reports collections (have a look). In this blogpost she shares her own experiences…
Mare Nullius is back in session after the summer here in Bergen, and to set the rhythm for the autumn months, the group gathered for a two-day intensive…
Much like the rest of Norway, many of us in the Mare Nullius team are taking our summer break in the month of July. The project will therefore…
A brief update on what members of the Mare Nullius team have been up to in the past weeks, while offices and borders have been closed to prevent…
On Tuesday 28 April, Edvard Hviding participated in the virtual launch of the Norway-Pacific Ocean-Climate Scholarship Programme (N-POC) at the United Nations. Intended to begin in 2021, N-POC…
Authored by Miriam Ladstein, this post draws attention to the work and contributions of Pacific youth in local and global arenas where decisions concerning ocean and climate action…
This is an interview with Dr. Joanna Siekiera from 3 January 2020 on Tok FM Radio in Poland. The Broadcast was entitled “Australia’s on fire” and was held…
Written by Dr. Camilla Borrevik. Hopes were high ahead of the UN climate talks at the 25th Conference of the Parties (COP25) in Madrid. Albeit some rocky weeks…
Dr. Joanna Siekiera sums up this year’s annual Australia, New Zealand, Oceania Research Association (ANZORA) conference in Lublin, Poland. On 13 December 2019, I organized the…
Written by Dr. Camilla Borrevik. On 22 October 2019, I participated in the seminar “Ocean management: opportunities, challenges and experience” in Oslo, Norway. The seminar was organised…
In this post, Matthew Simpson sheds light on future sea-level rise projections for the Norwegian coastline and offers some thoughts on how Norwegian scenarios might contribute to –…
Prior to the UNFCCC COP23 climate change conference held in Bonn, Germany in November 2017 (and hosted by Fiji as COP23 Presidency), new research from Australian ocean and…
Article by Sunil Kumar Pariyar and Noel Keenlyside. On April 13, 2015, tropical cyclone PAM hit Vanuatu (a Pacific Island country) with a devastating speed of 250km/hour. This…
In this post, anthropologist Jennifer Telesca takes a deep-dive into the intricacies of the United Nations as a field research site, and how high-level global negotiations over the…
Over the last couple of weeks, the University of Bergen has hosted the Bergen Summer Research School, bringing together PhD students and junior researchers from a wide range…
Edvard* has been kept quite busy here in Bergen since the start of the new year, but when the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) and its ocean…
We are pleased to announce that our online, open-access Document Collection has officially been launched! While the Document Collection is still a work in progress, Phase One of the…