An interdisciplinary investigation into scenarios of national and international conflicts of ecosystem services in the Svalbard zone under a changing climate in the Arctic
Dr. Tiller went to New York City for the negotiations for the Biodiversity treaty and along with her colleagues 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 the grouped Read More …
Senior Research Scientist Rachel Tiller, who leads the workpackage on Geopolitics and Stakeholders in the Regimes project, left for Houston, TX and a year as the Fulbright Arctic Chair at Texas A&M University at Galveston in August 2018. She will be staying there, working on Regimes issues with project Scientific Advisor – Assistant professor Elizabeth Read More …
Senior Research Scientist Rachel Tiller will present a joint paper at the 59th Convention of the International Studies Association in San Francisco April 4th-7th 2018. The paper she will present is on changing ecosystem goods and services in the Arctic, with a focus on Mackerel and Snow Crab, and how this is an exogenous shock Read More …
We have now completed the Three generational workshops With the completion of the parent workshop in Bergen at the end of September 2017. We will now analyze the results and compare and contrast the answers of the Three generations. We will then compare this to a wide ranging large population survey With similar questions to assess if Read More …
Rachel Tiller, WP2 leader and Senior Researcher at SINTEF Ocean – Section for Governance, Climate and Security – has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright Arctic Chair scholarship for 2018/2019. The title of the project is: “Evaluating the BBNJ treaty as a global political solution to plastic pollution in areas beyond national jurisdiction, with a special Read More …
Our abstract for Arctic Frontiers, which will be held at Scandic Ishavshotel in Tromsø 23-25 January 2018, has been reviewed by the International Science Committee, has been accepted for oral presentation in the Resilient Arctic Societies and Industrial Development part. The name of the paper is: Climate change, disasters and community resilience in light of Read More …
Our scientific Advisor Elizabeth Nyman from Texas A&M University at Galvestor arrived for the annual meeting of the REGIMES project today – and brought with her amazing weather with clear skies and magnificent views! Dr. Nyman in an academic and writer who specializes in international maritime issues. Currently she is an Assistant Professor of Political Read More …
The Russian settlement Barentsburg is located just over an hour away from Longyearbyen by boat and Monday, team one went there to interview respondents there about climate change, values -and the local community! The boat trip was spectacular but it was very cold – but the interview was great! We were shown around the Company Read More …
REGIMEs team group one – Rachel Tiller and 8th grader Theodore Tiller from Trondheim have arrived and day one they already did two in depth interviews!
We are so proud to announce that our Scientific Advisor Sandra Cassotta will serve as Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for Polar Regions – IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryoshpere in a Changing Climate! Here is an article in Danish reporting on this: http://www.law.aau.dk/nyheder/nyhed//juraforsker-faar-ledende-rolle-i-specialrapport-for-fn-s-klimapanel-.cid321779 Reserachers from all over the world Read More …
I was recently interviewed by Glen Jeffries for Hakai Magazine about Svalbard and snow crab and future implications, and the article is now out and it is pretty good so I recommend you take a read! https://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-short/svalbards-snow-crabs-pincered-proxy-arctic-oil The same article is also appearing in Arctic Deeply as a reprint: https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/articles/2017/04/21/svalbards-snow-crabs-a-pincered-proxy-for-arctic-oil
The second week of August 2017, the reserach team (Yajie, Rachel and Dorothy – plus Vicky from UBC in Vancouver) as well as two of our Scientific Advisors (Arne and Liz) will meet in Longyearbyen – with four students and two teachers! We are now working on the program for this week in Longyearbyen, both Read More …
Dr. Rachel Tiller from SINTEF Ocean and Scientific Advisor Elizabeth Nyman from Texas A&M Galveston recently attended a closed session with UNAI (United Nations Academic Impact) at the UN building in New York City. They were two out of three international experts invited to attend a meeting to the General Assembly decision to develop an international legally binding instrument Read More …
We just had a project meeting in Trondheim for two days, with Dorothy flying in from Bergen and on of our advisors, Sandra, coming in via Skype. Our other collaborator, Russel, from Australia, also came in via Skype. The session was very good, both academically and socially, and we are very happy to have started Read More …
Arctic Frontiers started with a reception at the Fram-center in Tromsø on the 22nd of January. There were a number of different foods laid out, and they were both fancy and gorgeous and very mysterious. It so happened that I was standing next to a man who was equally perplexed by what this food was Read More …
The end of November 2016, we held the first two workshops for REGIMES in Bergen, Norway – with students and retirees! The first workshop was with students, and we had 17 students and at least 3 teachers in the room for more than 2 hours. The students were from two different schools, and represented students from both Read More …
The ISA’s 58th Annual Convention titled Understanding Change in World Politics takes place February 22nd – 25th, 2017 in Baltimore, Maryland on the East coast of the US. The ISA stands for the International Studies Association, and is an annual conference of utmost importance to Political Scientists from all over the world. It has been the premier Read More …
The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) finances scholarly networking collaboration opportunities, and accepts proposals twice yearly and 37 countries are eligible, among these Norway. The goal is to enable scientific breakthroughs that lead to new concepts and strenghtens European resaerch capacity. The program finances workshops, conferences, and short term research exchanges among others. Read More …
The main objective of the second workpackage, named CONSULT, is to determine stakeholder driven scenarios of vulnerability and adaptive capacity to the socio-ecological effects of climate change and related stressors, such as ocean acidification on the provisioning and cultural services provided by the Svalbard Fisheries Protection Zone (SFPZ). In other words – how vulnerable are Read More …