Media visibility of The Sea ⇨
Stakeholder events and meetings:
| 24.08.2022 | Turku Europe Forum – “Local meets global in the European energy transition: Offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea.” – a panel hosted by Magnus Hellström and Thaysa Portela de Carvalho |
| 17-18.08.2022 | The “Environmental change, agency and knowledge of the sea” symposium was held as an celebration of the SeaHer-project, Turku |
| 01-02.06.2022 | The Sea participated in the Nordic Maritime Expo in Finland (Navigate), Turku |
| 29-30.03.2022 | “Understanding environmental change: Creating integrated knowledge of the Seas of Norden and Arctic” – book-writing workshop in Herrankukkaro, Rymättylä |
| 17.03.2022 | Cities of Northern Netherlands: workshop on climate and environment – Presentation on the “Matching Forerunner Cities” project that concerns comperative urban climate governance, Turku City Hall |
| 13.08.2021 | Rauhansymposium – Stability and sustainable development in the Baltic Sea region 2021, presentation on ”Marine environments – our resources for a sustainable future in a changing climate”, Uusikaupunki |
| 23.02.2021 | Baltic Sea Rotary Action Network Seminar, presentation on “Wicked Problems and Solutions” |
| 09.12.2020 | Rotaract seminar on “The Baltic Sea: State, Challenges and Solutions” |
| 27.08.2020 | Turku Europe Forum – three panel discussions on the EU and the Baltic Sea |
| 29.11.2019 | ”Människan & Havet” – Forum for research in the archipelago, Archipelago Centre Korpoström |
| 10.10.2019 | “Hur möter vi havet” – Stakeholder event at Hotel Arkipelag, Mariehamn, Åland Islands, organised by The Sea in collaboration with Östersjöfonden |
| 19.09.2019 | The Sea met with Ministry of Transport and Communications |
| 12.09.2019 | Smart Mobility & Ports (RAAS) meeting |
| 11.03.2019 | The Sea participated in Vesisuojelun Tehostamisohjelma discussion event, Helsinki |
| 05.03.2019 | Skärgårdshavets vinterträff, presentation by The Sea on “The life in the archipelago today and tomorrow” |
| 27.02.2019 | The Sea participated in the FINMARI Researchers Day, Helsinki |
| 20.12.2018 | “Keeping a check on phosphorus – new solutions to Archipelago Sea eutrophication”, research and stakeholder event by UTU and ÅAU sea profiles, Turku |
| 09.10.2018 | The Sea participated in a workshop on “Future of Finland’s Maritime Cluster”, Turku |
Seminar series & recurrent meetings
“The Sea Seminars”
This is an internal working seminar series held about once a month. If you are interested in joining, please contact us (thesea@abo.fi – or Magnus, Nina, Henrik or Anna).
“The Sea Webinar Series”:
| 02.02.2023 | Anna-Lisa Castle, Policy Director at the Alliance for the Great Lakes, is presenting her work related to clean water access, water infrastructure and climate resiliency |
| 14.12.2022 | The PBI Prize 2022 was awarded to Henrik Ringbom and Felix Collin. Doctoral students associated with The Sea pitched their research ideas |
| 16.11.2022 | “Sea Research Seminar”, Michael Gilek, SustainLab at Södertörn University, and Rikke Becker Jacobsen, Center for Blue Governance at Aalborg University (Guests) |
| 05.10.2022 | Human-marine organisms relationships, Jolanda Linsén (PhD) |
| 01.06.2022 | “Exploring and practising Marine Social Science for a Sustainable future”, Kristina Svels
“Offshore wind farm development in the Baltic Sea – Challenges and opportunities”, Thaysa Portela de Carvalho (PhD) “Exploring the ecosystem approach in the Finnish marine planning”, Barabara Lahtinen (PhD) “Matching Forerunner Cities – Climate Policy in Turku, Groningen, Rostock, and Potsdam”, Sam Grönhom “The anatomy of complex marine problems – a case study on archipelagic aquaculture”, Henrik Ringbom & co |
| 19.05.2022 | “BaltVib – Pathogenic Vibrio bacteria in the Baltic Sea: mitigating the problem”, Christian Pansch-Hattich (Environmental and Marine Biology)
“Shipping and GHG”, Henrik Ringbom (Law) & Magnus Hellström (Industrial management) |
| 26.04.2022 | “Marine research at the University of Turku”, Otto Latva(Guest)
“Governing migratory (Human and Non-Human) resources: coastal and estuarine ethnographies in North Atlantic and Baltic communities”, Anatole Danto, Université de Rennes (Guest) “The human-nature relation in the context summer cottages and the life around them”, Julia Öhman (PhD) |
| 31.03.2022 | “Visions of cross-disciplinarity”, Sam Grönholm (Public administration) |
| 17.06.2021 | “Wrecks as environmental risks – Legal and other issues”, Henrik Ringbom |
| 12.05.2021 | “Exploring methodological commonalities in Sea research (Network analysis)”, Marie Nordström, Nina Tynkkynen and Anastasia Tsvetkova |
| 14.04.2021 | “Co-creation and stakeholder engagement in research projects (The case of the Package Hero & Sea Her projects)”, Nina Tynkkynen, Jaana Kouri, Kirsi Sonck-Rautio and Silja Laine (Public administration) |
| 24.03.2021 | “Meta-analysis of definitions and operationalisations of human relationships to organisms”, Jolanda Linsén (Environmental and Marine Biology and Public administration)
“Past, Present, Future: Using resting cells to study Eco-Evolutionary changes in Phytoplankton communities”, Giannina Hattisch (Environmental and Marine Biology) |
| 10.02.2021 | “The changing role of law in governing the Baltic Sea” Henrik Ringbom (Law) “Healthy Travel – Managing seaborne passenger transportation during pandemics”, Erik Niemelä (Cell biology and Industrial management) |
| 09.06.2020 | The first webinar in this series was held on wicked problems and the situation in our coastal waters of the Baltic Sea, featuring some of our marine biologists |
ÅAU Strategic Research Profiles joint seminars:
| 06-07.04.2022 | “Living with the Sea” – The seminar focused on coastal regions and climate change and thereby explored water as a space: as a space of movement and life/living, as a shared and disputed space, and as a space for politics, governance and justice. It was organized in collaboration by the two ÅAU strategic profiling areas Minority Research and The Sea |
ÅAU & UTU joint seminars:
| 08.04.2022 | “Meri ja materia” – Wave Riders, a Marine Research and Teaching Network for the Humanities and Social Sciences, organized an event where researchers present research and projects related to the sea and materiality |
| 07.05.2021 | “The Marine Carousel” – Wave Riders, a Marine Research and Teaching Network for the Humanities and Social Sciences, organized an event where researchers from the University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University presented their marine-related studies |
ÅAU & UTU “Marine and Maritime”- Annual meetings:
| 26.11.2019 | “2nd Annual Seminar of ÅAU and UTU joint thematic profiling area of Sea and Maritime Research”, Scandic Julia, Turku |
| 22.11.2018 | “Joint WS on Marine and Maritime research”, BioCity, Turku |
“NESS – Nordic Environmental and Social Science Conference”:
| 06.2024 | TBA, Åbo Akademi University, Finland |
| 07-09.06.2022 | “NESS – Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference: Emergency and transformation”, University of Gothenburg, Sweden |
| 10-12.06.2019 | “14th Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference: Social Science in Our time”, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden |
Art & Science – Events & projects:
| 2021- | 40 000+ – an exhibition in Forum Marinum which combines maritime and marine themes with the marine environment and the archipelago in a way that takes both the inhabitants’ and the surroundings’ perspectives into account |
| 2020-2021 | Forcing the impossible (Avtryck i det okända) |
| 2020-2022 | Relations with The Sea – art- and science exhibition during 2021-2022 |
| 2020-2021 | Mareld – a dance performance by Fern Orchestra, first performed at Turku City Theatre in September 2020 |
| 2020 | Aqua Vivae – exhibition in Vanhalinna, Lieto by Fern Orchestra |
| 2019- | Breath – a Bio-light art installation by Fern Orchestra, first displayed at LUX Helsinki 2019 |
ABOAGORA
ABOAGORA is an annual symposium bringing together various aspects of academia, the arts, and society:
| 21.08.2020 | ”The Sea – A living Lab” – workshop during the thematic year WATER |
| 22.08.2018 | “The Wicked Ocean” – workshop during the thematic year Burden/Skuld |
Baltic Sea Day
Baltic Sea Day is a annual festival to celebrate the rich cultural heritage and nature of the Baltic Sea. Åbo Akademi is one of its official partners and The Sea participates in several events:
| 26.08.2021 | Kynä vie merelle – luovan kirjoittamisen työpajat/Pennan tar en till havet – workshoppar för kreativt skrivande (in Finnish & Swedish) – creative writing workshops regarding observations of the Baltic Sea, feelings and memories. Examples of text (in Finnish) from different similar workshops can be found at the SeaHer webpage |
| 27.08.2020 | Seminar at Forum Marinum, Turku |
Archipelago Centre Korpoström
We collaborate with the Archipelago Centre Korpoström regarding exhibitions and other activities for the general public.
Community service – Events & projects:
| 2020-2021 | Vem äter blåstång/Kuka syö rakkolevää (in Swedish & Finnish) – a citizen science project on bladderack algae and its animal community |
| 20.09.2020 | Turku Day – The Sea took part in organizing the Clean-up of the Aura River event |
2019 Turku Science Days:
| 2019 | SciCruise – a science and technology festival for school children and their teachers as well as families on board Viking Grace |