EVENTS:
MARIPOLDATA Seminar Series – Talk by Paolo G. Albano
Biodiversity collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
December 12, 2019
The Levantine basin in the easternmost Mediterranean Sea is well known for hosting hundreds of non-indigenous species introduced after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. A still insufficiently recognized but equally dramatic phenomenon is the disappearance of native species. We have quantified this decline using intense sampling on the Israeli shelf targeting mollusks, and using death assemblages, the accumulation of empty shells in the sediments, to reconstruct the baseline.
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MARIPOLDATA Seminar Series – Talk by Sarah de Rijcke
How Evaluation shapes Ocean Science – A Multi-Scale Ethnography of Fluid Knowledge
January 23, 2020
In 2018, Profesor De Rijcke received an ERC Starting Grant for the project ‘FluidKnowledge – How evaluation shapes ocean science.’ The ERC project will run from January 2019 until December 2023. On the occasion of the MARIPOLDATA seminar serie, she will speak about the progress of the FluidKnowledge project.
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MARIPOLDATA Seminar Series – Talk by Peter Jacques
The Shifting Context of Sustainability: Growth and the World Ocean Regime
March 12, 2020
The World Ocean Regime is not an official treaty agreed to by states in some formal process, but it probably governs the marine world. This talk will discuss how this regime was discovered and the nature of the economistic values and norms that are the main feature. This includes how the idea of sustainability has changed over time in discourses about the ocean to become more growth-oriented in a way that is not actually sustainable.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
New vacancy : student assistant position within MARIPOLDATA
Deadline for applying : November 10, 2019
At the Faculty of Social Sciences (Department of Political Science) of the University of Vienna 1 student assistant position within the ERC Project MARIPOLDATA is vacant.
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Alice Vadrot participates to the IHS symposium on “Innovation governance and security controversies”
Winter semester November 12, 2019
We live in societies which like to cure societal problems with technological innovation. Online surveillance is used to fight radicalization, smart borders are supposed to help tackle “irregular migration”, and registers of medical data shall improve medical research and public health. However, innovation can also pose different risks – from ethical, legal, social, to concerns over security.
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Alice Vadrot part of Austria Biodiversity Council
September, 2019
Renowned scientists from various universities and experts from the fields of nature conservation, museums and landscape planning have joined together to form a Biodiversity Council in view of the extinction of species. ..
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