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Exploring Belonging: A Day on the Island of Spiekeroog
Our one-day retreat on the island Spiekeroog aimed to further strengthen the connections within our Marine Governance group and to explore the notion of “Belonging.” Already the passage to the island with the small speedboat, which rocked with every sigle wave, raised the question, “Do we actually belong here?”—on the water amidst all the ship traffic, right in the middle of the Wadden Sea National Park, surrounded by countless marine organisms that all depend on this rare and threatened habitat?
Did you know?
Unicellular plankton covers a size range that is comparable to the size difference between a small fish and a city like Oldenburg.
A Marine Political Ecology Perspective
Only within the last couple decades have social science and humanities scholars intentionally taken their disciplines offshore and into the depths of the sea. Academic and policy circles now recognize the justification for interdisciplinary ocean research. Such efforts have brought attention to the ocean’s importance to every aspect of our lives. This turn has not …
Value of Information – Ecology Meets Economy
In our new joint research project with The Faculty of Business Administration and Economics of Bielefeld University both parties combine their expertises to explore the possible value of (additional) information and its consequences for optimal decision making in the context of ecological-economic problems.
A Better Future for Ocean Ecosystems
Marine conservation research is at a watershed moment. Human activities are impacting coastal and ocean ecosystems to a greater degree and at faster rates than ever before in human history. Understanding these impacts and developing effective marine conservation strategies to address them requires leveraging all the tools of ecology as well as other natural and social science disciplines.
Optimal Governance of Ecological Systems
While the primary aim of ecologists is to understand the interactions among organisms and their environment, we also have to be concerned about practical applications in the conservation of ecosystems, the protection of biodiversity, the regulation of composition of the biomass, the management of natural renewable resources – both in space and in time.
The Impacts of Oil: Ocean Governance in the Face of Disaster
This text is written by Fentje Maake who joined the Marine Governance Group at HIFMB for two weeks in October as part of a school internship to understand the work of university researchers in the social sciences, and in the study of oceanic management for biodiversity.
Maths, Ecology and the Virus
Over the past months life has been severely impacted by Covid. The pandemic has wiped the previous problems, the Australian wildfires and the rise of disinformation, off the news and off people’s minds. However, to the network scientist an important parallel exists: All of these phenomena can be understood as spreading processes on networks.