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Online video streams for Charlotte Weber’s PhD defense
M.Sc. in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation Charlotte Teresa Weber will give her trial lecture and [...]
New paper on machine learning and social network analysis out in Fish and Fisheries
Over the past decades, socio-environmental problems have multiplied. In response, policymakers and scientists have increasingly [...]
Shaheen Syed successfully defended his PhD dissertation
On Wednesday the 20th of March 2019, Shaheen Syed successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled [...]
Simulation with values
Samaneh Heidari, one of the SAF21 ESRs, has got another paper accepted at Social Simulation [...]
Making RRI a reality?
Last week, 8-9 June 2018, our ESR Lia ní Aodha took part in a Social [...]
Charlotte Weber elected on SiN board
During the recent general annual meeting in Oslo, Charlotte Weber from SAF21 was elected board [...]
Rannvá Danielsen publishes paper in Marine Policy
Our ESR Rannvá Danielsen has published the paper “Fisheries policy in the Faroe Islands: Managing [...]
Workshop on Uses of Machine Learning in Fisheries
Last week, 16-20 April 2018, our ESR Shaheen Syed co-organized and chaired the first workshop [...]
New SAF21 publication in Fish and Fisheries
Shaheen Syed (SAF21 ESR) published the paper "Narrow lenses for capturing the complexity of fisheries: [...]
Eurodoc Conference 2018
Today the Eurodoc Conference kicks off in Tampere, Finland. It is organized by the [...]
Shaheen Syed published a paper at the IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2018)
Our early stage researcher Shaheen Syed published and presented his latest paper entitled "Selecting Priors [...]
Charlotte Weber and Shaheen Syed publish a paper in Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture.
Our ESRs Charlotte Weber from UiT and Shaheen Syed from MMU/UU have published their paper [...]
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Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving (PBL), Netherlands environment assessment agency
By Samaneh Heidari, I had a presentation in PBL to present my research to modelers works for Dutch government in PBL. In this agency, modelers collaborate with specialists and make models that are [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]