Report on PhD mid-Seminar on Algae Blooms and the Baltic Sea. Based on my current research on algae blooms, the Water Centre has kindly invited me to post a blog on my mid-seminar which took place on April 16th at the Division of History of Science, Technology, and Environment. Algae blooms have been present in … Continue reading “Can Water Die?”
The short homemade video below shows a couple of spotted garden eels in action. You can go visit them yourselves, like I did, at the Aquaria Water Museum in Stockholm (which unfortunately closes down for good during 2018, so hurry!). Garden eels live in colonies of up to thousands of individuals on sandy bottoms in tropical … Continue reading “Garden eels, freshly baked bread and the value of water”
Christian Pleijel reflects on a spectacular tour into the techno-mythical world of water on the island of Vis in Croatia. Vis, a Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea, 55 kilometers from the mainland, with an area of 90 km2. 3,460 persons live in the island’s two municipalities. Ten times the population comes to visit every … Continue reading “Descent into XXX Fountain”
Where nothing ever grows No rain nor rivers flow Do they know it’s Christmastime at all? I grew up with Band Aid and Bob Geldof. Their 1984 song ”Do they know it’s Christmas” is one of those soundtracks of my youth; the songs you’ve heard so many times that you’ve stopped listening. Like so many … Continue reading “Happy Old Year! Looking back at 2017”
There I was on the island Vis far out in the Croatian archipelago, surrounded by beautiful turquoise water to participate in a workshop about water shortage on small European islands arranged by the Water Saving Challenge Project. Once again the same ingredients; a wicked problem, a diverse group of knowledgeable actors and the tension between … Continue reading “Water scarcity on islands: how to stage and navigate collective learning”
