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ject OceanStates - The Blog Learn about research and developments in the Island Lives, Ocean States project Search for: Facebook Twitter Email Website Summer break for OceanStates Posted on June 30, 2023 Author Håkon Larsen Leave a comment With summer break rapidly approaching, the OceanStates research team will be taking a month-long pause in July. Read More … Categories Uncategorized Project update: One Ocean Week Posted on May 10, 2023 June 30, 2023 Author Håkon Larsen Leave a comment In this project update blog post, read about OceanStates’ participation in the One Ocean Week with partners from the University of the South Pacific who visited us in Bergen last month. Written by Håkon Larsen Last month, the OceanStates project was fortunate to host a diverse delegation of students and staff from the University of Read More … Categories Conferences, seminars and workshops , Meetings , Project updates Maritime borders in a rising sea Posted on February 10, 2023 June 30, 2023 Author Håkon Larsen Leave a comment In this blogpost, Ernst Nordtveit draws upon legal perspectives to discuss projections of sea level rise and reflect upon regional strategies in the Pacific that view maritime boundaries not as ambulatory but as fixed borders”. Read More … Categories Research , Special topics Atoll Ways of Being with the Ocean Posted on December 1, 2022 December 1, 2022 Author Håkon Larsen Leave a comment A perspective from low laying atolls brings climate discourses and practical realities together. Tokelau experiences with political intervensions employed by overseas agents range historically from instruments of demographic control to more recent measures related to transport and access to revenue from the EEZ. Tensions between different ways of being with the ocean are increasingly apparent. Read More … Categories Presentations , Research , Special topics , Uncategorized Ocean Talanoa Posted on September 16, 2022 September 19, 2022 Author Håkon Larsen Leave a comment In July 2022 the OceanStates project had the privilege of bringing 28 students from the University of the South Pacific on board the tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl of Bergen, for a three-week voyage in Fiji waters. In this blogpost, you can read about how students from across the world engaged in exercises of knowledge sharing through the oceanic practice of ‘talanoa’ on this voyage together. Read More … Categories Special topics , Uncategorized Big Ocean States: Reclaiming Sovereignty through Maritime Borders Posted on March 4, 2022 March 7, 2022 Author Håkon Larsen Leave a comment In this blogpost, Milla Vaha provides an analysis of state sovereignty and maritime borders with a focus on the large ocean states of the Pacific, that are powerfully exercising their right to self-determination” through a reinterpretation of international law and statehood in the age of climate change and sea-level rise. Read More … Categories Research , Special topics A King of King Tides Posted on February 4, 2022 Author Håkon Larsen Leave a comment In December 2021, several places in the Western Pacific concurrently faced extreme weather events in the form of king tides. Vandhna Kumar offers here an analysis of the reports that circulated on social media and provides insights of climate variabilities to discuss how the events became linked with narratives of climate change. Read More … Categories Special topics Coastal resilience during the pandemic lockdown in Fiji Posted on December 15, 2021 March 3, 2022 Author Håkon Larsen Leave a comment In this post, Håkon Larsen discusses the crucial role of coastal resources in Fiji during the COVID-19 pandemic, by drawing on some of the materials from his master’s thesis The Organic Island” that explores the creative and resilient dimensions of subsistence economics. Read More … Categories Research , Special topics , Stories from the field Water, Oceans and Climate Change: Legal challenges, local perspectives and important examples to learn from Posted on May 27, 2021 May 28, 2021 Author MLadstein Leave a comment Dr Joanna Siekiera was recently invited to speak at a Special Lecture on Climate Change and its Impact on Small Island Developing States: The Example of the Pacific at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) by Professor David Attard, Director of the IMO International Maritime Law Institute. Here is what she had to say. Read More … Categories Uncategorized Restorying Ma’ohi Nui with Island Lives, Ocean States Posted on April 28, 2021 September 22, 2022 Author MLadstein Leave a comment 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 populations in Mā‘ohi Nui (French Polynesia). Vehia is co-founder of Sustainable Oceania Solutions and was elected Obama Foundation Asia-Pacific Leader for Tahiti in 2020. The OceanStates project Read More … Categories Research Post navigation ← Older posts Welcome! This blog features project updates and stories from the field, meetings and workshops, as well as articles and reflections on the various related topics of the OceanStates project, written by researchers involved with the project. Check out the archive for more posts! 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