March 2018
Fishing, women, and historical constructions of nature
By Lia ní Aodha, “Without the fisherwife, the fisherman's tasks could not be completed” (Nadel Klein 2000: 367). Today, on International Women’s Day, and in a year that marked the centenary of women’s suffrage (and [...]
February 2018
Science is not always done at the office – Life in a South African Aquarium
By Theodora Sam, Secondment, secondment, a time to move away from the comfort of my office at The University of Tromsø, Norway to live and work in a non-academic institution, The South African Association of Marine [...]
January 2018
Counting fish? What about Pulse trawling?
By Lia ní Aodha, At the very moment when we should be remaking politics, we have at our disposal only the pathetic resources of “management” and “governance.” (Latour, 2017: 107-109). “numbers are used as ‘automatic pilots [...]
October 2017
Computer Scientist visiting the ICES ASC.
By Shaheen Syed, "Wait, what, Florida?". Indeed, the ICES Annual Science Conference (ASC) 2017 was happening in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. As a Ph.D. candidate in computer science, and being part of SAF21, a Horizon2020 funded [...]
MARE, the always-Amsterdam conference: The meeting place for interdisciplinary social scientists in marine resource management
By Theodora Sam, This year I joined the 9th MARE conference, which is a conference held bi-annually always in the city of Amsterdam, at the University of Amsterdam, Roeterseiland campus. The conference provides a platform [...]
August 2017
Learning About Fisheries
By Luz Molina, I found myself travelling back to Tromsø to fulfill my first secondment and learn more about fisheries. As soon as I was in Scandinavia and handed my passport to immigration, I was [...]
Oh, sweet summer school: sweat, science, and surprises!
By Charlotte Weber, It is summer, and in a PhD student’s life this only means one thing – no, not holidays – but time to go for a summer school! That sounds fun, doesn’t it? [...]
May 2017
Iceland? Why are you going to ICELAND?
By Ixai Salvo Borda, Iceland, land of mystery. Iceland, land of “fire, ice and cod” (as my colleague Rannvá says in her blog post. For Basque people, Iceland also supposes a land of conquer, risk and [...]
Writing, reading, visualizing – a story about SAF21 collaboration and how a team can make you stronger
By Charlotte Weber, This last spring, during April 2017 I spent my days at the Center for Policy Modelling at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) in the UK. A collaboration with my fellow SAF21 colleague Shaheen [...]
April 2017
Plotting Seas with Python and ICES Shape File
By Shaheen Syed and Charlotte Weber, This example shows how to plot and color European seas with Python, Basemap and the ICES shape file. It serves as a basic example from which more elements [...]