The Elements of Deep Sea Mining Podcast
A podcast series on the narratives and numbers relating to the deep sea mining debate.
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Recent Episodes
#47: Turning societal concerns to empirical research questions with Ellen Pape
#46: Conflicting Regimes with Coalter Lathrop
#45 Seamount Crusts with Thomas Kuhn
#44 The Common Heritage: Rozemarijn Roland Holst Explains Evolution of an Idealistic Principle
#43 What DSHMRA Actually Requires Before Anyone Mines the Seabed; Brandon Tuck Explains US Deep Sea Mining Rules
#42 What are China’s Deep Sea Research Vessels Actually Doing? Kara Fox and Elizabeth Alberts’ Marine Traffic Investigation
#41: Norway Hits Pause and Research Keeps Moving: Anette Tvedt on Processing, Politics, Problem Solving and Potential Futures
#40 From the Lab to the Legal Text with Kerstin Kröger
#39 When the Numbers Don’t Add Up: Steven Emerman’s Independent Assessment of the Metals Company Pre-Feasibility Study
#38: Kaja Lønn Fjærtoft, WWF and The Policy Battle Over Deep Sea Mining
#37: Part 2 with Pierre Josso - From Criticality to Mineral Systems, Using Complex Data to Find Deep-Sea Resources
#36: Critical Minerals Explained: It’s Not Just About Scarcity - Pierre Josso (Part 1)
#35: Complex Trade-Offs and Environmental Decision-Making: Paul Hirsch on Values, Governance, and Power
#34: Ed Nedelciu and the Growth Paradigm in Deep Sea Mining
#33 Craig Shesky on The Metals Company’s Financial Case for Deep Sea Mining
#32 Idealism and Pragmatism: Moving Stepwise into the Abyss with Andrew Thaler
#31: State Consent and the Deep Sea: Nathan Eastwood on Law, Legitimacy, and the Limits of UNCLOS
#29: Seeing Below the Surface: How Deep-Ocean Exploration Works with Anna Lim
Dr. Rahul Sharma: perspectives of seabed mining and the Indian context as a developing country
Stig-Morten Knutsen: Comfortably Numb vs Confronting Uncertainty
Jesse van der Grient - Science without Sides
Coalter Lathrop on Risks to International Stability
Andreas Svanlund on Resilience and Realpolitik
News Roundup No.2
Freelance Journalist Elyse Hauser returns to update the pod on recent headlines and discuss the coverage and developing narratives.