March 2017
The land of fire, ice and cod
By Rannva Danielsen, On a cold, windy November day last year I got on a plane and fastened my seat belt securely in anticipation of a bumpy flight from the Faroe Islands over the Atlantic. [...]
October 2016
Networking & northern lights
By Rannva Danielsen, One of the many benefits of being part of a European training network is that we get to go on secondments. For those not familiar with EU jargon, a secondment is basically [...]
September 2016
Who am I? Confessions of an interdisciplinary researcher
By Rannva Danielsen, Nothing beats a good conference. A good conference will inspire your research, pose questions you hadn’t thought of before, and, if you’re still a young scientist, teach you a few things. It’s [...]
Fisherwomen: Do we really consider the complex and varied role women play in fisheries?
By Lia Ni Aodha, Women play a complex and varied role in fisheries. All over the world many women rely on fisheries for their livelihoods. Alongside this, many fisheries around the world rely on the [...]
An unholy alliance
By Kristinn Edvardsson, Being a first year PhD student can be quite confusing, especially when you are hired into a project such as SAF21. While I was taking my first unsure steps in this project [...]
A little trip to Manchester
By Kristinn Edvardsson, Having started my journey into ABM at the wrong end so to speak, I felt it was time for me to start learning ABM like a normal person, at the beginning. I [...]
When in doubt, do a secondment
By Cezara Pastrav, Back in spring I was looking at my event schedule for the next half a year, discovering that I had a SAF21 training camp/workshop in Manchester and a conference in Toulouse a [...]
August 2016
My secondment in Tromsø, the forge of a project
By Ixai Salvo Borda, 7 months and 6 days, meaning that 219 days has passed since my plane landed in Tromsø. Too many days since the snow mesh up my beard and the cold wind welcomes [...]
June 2016
What a stupid question to ask!
By Charlotte Weber, Reflections on the ICES MSEAS Young Researchers Workshop in Brest, June 2016 This June I had the great pleasure to be accepted for presentation at the ICES MSEAS conference with the theme: [...]
Hilborn and the Fishing myths
By Ixai Salvo Borda, Ray Hilborn, one of the most important fisheries researchers, biologist, and professor at the University of Washington, considers that we have to change our scope of fisheries resources and consider [...]