4-OCEANS – partners
Columbia University in the City of New York
Dr. Puma will oversee the economic modeling in the 4-Oceans project. The analyses will center on the food inventory and food price dynamics in response to these shocks and adapting them to historic case studies. These models will provide estimates of historical, large-scale market conditions. Further, we will examine local context, including prices and their variability, to better understand the causal factors driving price dynamics.
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Dr. LeGrande will coordinate use of a state-of-the-art climate model – the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies ModelE – to examine the impact of major modes of climate variability (e.g. El Niño-Southern Oscillation) and climatic forcings such as explosive eruptions on the marine environment.
Nick Pelaccio is a Staff Associate at the Center for Climate Systems Research, co-located with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He works with Allegra LeGrande by using NASA GISS's climate model to assist in research on past climate and its effect on global marine life throughout human history. He received his Masters degree in Climate and Society from Columbia University.
University of Oslo
Bastiaan is an evolutionary biologist and associated professor at the University of Oslo, Norway. I am interested in historical ecology and conservation genomics and use a range of genomic tools (including ancient DNA) to investigate how genetic variation, population structure and population size have changed over time during the onset of human exploitation and ecological globalization. I have a particular interest in the marine environment, performing research into a broad range of marine organisms across the globe. I very much enjoy collaborating with archaeologists, zooarchaeologists, historians and ecologists to study modern and ancient specimens up to thousands of years old..
Lydia is an investigating past human impacts on sea cows using ancient and modern DNA. By uncovering the demographic histories of species such as North American, Amazonian, and West African manatees, the dugong, and the extinct Steller’s sea cow, I hope to discover why one went extinct when others did not, and to map out chronological and regional differences in sea cow exploitation
The University of Texas, Arlington (UTA) Dept. of History
Dr Travis is also a research associate with the TCEH at Trinity College Dublin. Dr. Travis will oversee the creation of the 4Ocean's Atlas of Historical Marine Extractions, which will employ GIS and digital media to visualize the project's quantative/qualitative data and project findings. He will also produce publications related to the literary, historical and cultural geographies of historical marine extraction, and his forthcoming book, Environment as a Weapon: Histories, Geographies, Literatures, will be published in early 2024.
University of California, San Diego
Colleen Petrik is project partner with 4-Oceans and her role will be to run simulations with the FEISTY model that represents commercially important marine fish functional types. The fish food web simulations will be forced by volcano experiments from the NASA GISS Earth system model. These simulations allow for the examination of bottom-up forcing on long-term variability of fisheries productivity, such as shocks from volcanic eruptions or climate oscillations like the El Niño Southern Oscillation. Knowing the bottom-up effects of climate on ocean physics, biogeochemistry, and ultimately fishes enables disentangling the drivers of historic fish catches, specifically separating ocean productivity from market drivers like population demand, fish prices, energy costs, and technological advances that increase fishing effort.
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme Grant agreement No. 951649