Studying sustainability while sailing over the Pacific in summer 2022 Passed
Wednesday February 10, 2021 15:30 - 17:00 Zoom
Presenter: Katja Enberg
Contact person: Katja Enberg, BIO/ University of Bergen
Type of event: Digital event ONLY
SDG200: Ocean, climate, society is a completely new 30 ECTS interdisciplinary sustainability course at the UiB. The course will be run for the first time from May to August 2022 on board the sailing ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl, while the ship sails across the Pacific from Valparaíso in Chile to Palau. The ship is circumnavigating the globe in One Ocean Expedition, as a part of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.
This course will employ the SDGs as a platform from which to gain a comprehensive understanding of planetary sustainability. This includes building necessary skills for the transformative interdisciplinary cooperation needed if humanity is to continue to thrive for generations to come, while avoiding large-scale abrupt or irreversible environmental change. The students participating on SDG200 will live and study on board and become part of the crew, dividing their time between sailing the ship and studying, eating and resting.
We invite particularly students interested in participating in SDG200 to learn about the course and discuss our plans with us. As a participant in our event, you will be able to contribute to the development of the course!
This event is relevant for all the Sustainable Development Goals.
Lecturers
Katja Enberg Presenter
Associate Professor
University of Bergen
Katja Enberg is an associate professor in fisheries science at the Department of Biological Sciences at UiB. Before joining UiB in 2018 she worked for eight years at the Institute of Marine Research, the last four as the head of the Research and Advice Programme Norwegian Sea coordinating all research and advice related to Norwegian Sea. Katja is an evolutionary ecologist and fisheries scientists, and her research can be placed in what is know as the Pasteur’s quadrant – research motivated by both fundamental understanding and utility to society. Her research spans from contemporary and fishing-induced evolution, and stock assessments and fisheries management to population dynamics and distribution. Katja is keen on finding sustainable solutions for using our natural resources and for feeding the growing human population.
Katja teaches SDG214; UN Sustainable Develop Goal 14: Life Below Water (a course she designed) and BIO325; Ocean Science, in which she teaches fisheries ecology and is responsible for the students' cruise on the North Sea with one of the University's research vessels. Katja is also leading the development of the interdisciplinary sustainability course SDG200, and will take 90 students on a four-month sailing journey over the Pacific in summer 2022 (https://www.uib.no/en/oneocean/140406/study-sustainability-pacific-ocean). She also leads the University of Bergen Sustainabillity Education Collective (https://www.uib.no/en/sustainabilitycollective), a meeting point for everyone working on SDG-related education, that aims at exchanging experiences, knowledge and ideas for improved teaching and learning in sustainability education.
Her home page can be found at https://katjaenberg.w.uib.no/