Lecture: Biodiversity stewardship in international spaces
Presentation: Biodiversity stewardship in international spaces
Paul Arthur Berkman is Head of the Arctic Ocean Geopolitics Programme through the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge and a Research Professor through the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California Santa Barbara. He is an oceanographer working on interdisciplinary connections between science, policy and information technology with regard to cooperative international governance of the Arctic Ocean and international spaces more generally, including Antarctica. Professor Berkman has wintered, SCUBA dived under the sea-ice and lead government-sponsored research expeditions to Antarctica.
He is the author of Science into Policy: Global Lessons from Antarctica (Academic Press, 2002). He has a master’s degree and doctorate in biological oceanography from the University of Rhode Island, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow. He also has received the: Antarctic Service Medal from the United States Congress; NASA Faculty Fellowship at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; Byrd Fellowship at the Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship at the National Institute of Polar Research in Japan; and Erskine Fellowship in the Gateway Antarctica, University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
Paul came to the University of Cambridge in 2007-08 initially as a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar to plan the Antarctic Treaty Summit: Science-Policy Interactions in International Governance (www.atsummit50.aq) that will be convened at the Smithsonian Institution in December 2009 on the 50th anniversary of the signature-day for the Antarctic Treaty in the city where it was adopted “in the interests of science and progress of all mankind.”
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