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Ana Spalding Leads New Smithsonian-wide Resilience Initiative, Based at the...
Ana Spalding, Ocean Nexus Principal Investigator, has taken on a new role. She is currently leading a resilience initiative for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) as she continues to...
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Jade Jones Bridging the Gap Between Environmental Law & Policy
Student CELP Cardiff University’s Centre of Environmental Law and Policy (CELP) is primarily set up for lecturers, researchers, and Ph.D. students to semi-regularly discuss their research and...
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Reframing Gender Studies in Marine Social Science to Address Structural...
A recent report by Ocean Nexus Principal Investigator Annet Pauwelussen and former Ocean Nexus Student Fellow Sallie Lau examines gender studies in marine social science, emphasizing the need for an...
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Eight Recommended Readings in Critical Environmental Justice
Recent oceans sustainability, coastal community development, and ocean governance policy discourse among academics and practitioners increasingly invokes “equity” and “ocean equity.” In our...
View ArticleChatGPT in Marine Policy May Be Inevitable: How Do We Prioritize Equity?
ChatGPT has become incredibly popular over the past five years. I spoke with Ocean Nexus Principal Investigator Dr. Richard Anderson about using Large Language Models, or LLMs, for marine policy and...
View ArticleIs Your Tuna Not Only Sustainable, but Equitable?
A recent publication by Ocean Nexus Research Fellow Angela Abolhassani examines the transboundary management of albacore tuna in the South Pacific. Inequities in current decision-making processes...
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Ocean Desalination: Let’s Start Moving the Discussion from Techno-solutionism...
The simple truth is, it’s the most expensive way to make water. Okay? But at the end of the day it’s often the only option…I think it would make sense in Southern California, ‘cause you’re at the end...
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Factory Farms, Environmental Injustice, and Industrial Extraction in Coastal...
When we think about “coastal communities,” we tend to imagine those on the water. However, it is worth adopting a wider view of “the coast.” Social processes, such as displacement driven by coastal...
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Deep Sea Mining, Nirvana Concepts, and the Horizon of Blue Injustice
In France, Camille Etienne is a climate activist who embodies an engaged and educated youth for whom the fight against climate change is vital. Like many, I first encountered her through her YouTube...
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Electronically Monitoring the Seas: Surveillance Is Not Just Another...
With the acceleration of digital and electronic technologies for ocean management, numerous companies and non-governmental organizations have championed and attempted to apply these tools across the...
View ArticleIntroducing Environmental Sociology and Its Importance for Ocean Science
Not too long ago, disciplines within the marine sciences and the social sciences were, to use a maritime metaphor, like ships passing in the night. The Ocean Nexus Center’s aim, to advance...
View ArticleCarp in Space. Carp in Time.
One of my favorite maps is printed on the frontispiece of the first volume of Alfred Russel Wallace’s 1876 book The Geographic Distribution of Animals. It is a Gall stereographic projection (at least...
View ArticleOcean Justice in the Urban Context: The Case of New York Harbor
Urban problems related to social inequality are often seen as disconnected from the concerns of ocean conservation. What does coral reef restoration have to do with access to affordable housing? In...
View ArticleAquaculture and Political Economy: Food System as Social Structure
Aquaculture, or the controlled rearing of fish and aquatic animals, is the fastest growing food-system sub-sector on earth. Its proponents argue that, if developed properly, industrial aquaculture...
View ArticleSalt: A Tribute to Ghana’s Fishers
Salt: A tribute to Ghana’s fishersChains on a vesselHe skips a beatIt’s just… you know… back in the day…Now it’s fish they ship away A pool of bloodA moonless nightSuch tendernessYour light shines...
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Critiquing Ocean Frontier Ideology: The Case of the Costa Rica Dome
The term “ocean frontiers” has increasingly been used in the past two decades to depict human actions in oceans. It qualifies transitional spaces where one can observe a rush of new activities, actors...
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