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Paul Arthur Berkman, PhD

Head, Arctic Ocean Geopolitics Programme at the Scott Polar Research Institute and Research Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California Santa Barbara

Oceanographer working on interdisciplinary connections between science, policy and information technology with regard to cooperative international governance of the Arctic Ocean and international spaces more generally, including Antarctica.

Biography

Career

2008 to present: Head, Arctic Ocean Geopolitics Programme, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
2005 to Present: Research Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Santa Barbara
2003-2005: Associate Research Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Santa Barbara
2003-2007: Chief Scientist, The New Media Studio
1999-Present: Founder: EvREsearch LTD.
1998-2003: Research Scientist, Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University.
1994-1998: Senior Research Associate: Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University.
1993-1994: Postdoctoral Fellow: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan.
1991-2003: Adjunct Professorships: Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology; Environmental Science Graduate Program; School of Natural Resources; The Ohio State University.
1990-1994: Research Associate: Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University.
1989-1990: Byrd Fellow: Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University.
1987-1988: NSF Graduate Fellow: National Science Foundation.
1987: Lecturer: Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island.
1986-87: Visiting Scientist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
1984-1986: NSF Graduate Fellow: National Science Foundation.
1983: Consultant: Antarctica Project, Washington, D.C.
1982: Visiting Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
1981-1982: Staff Research Associate: Scripps Institution of Oceanography (winter-over in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica).

Qualifications

Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island (1988).
M.S., Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island (1986).
B.A., Department of Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara (1980).

Research

Paul Berkman is an interdisciplinary scientist with formal training in oceanography and ecology. He focuses on science-policy interactions in international governance, particularly with regard to the cooperative management of transboundary resources and international spaces that exist beyond national jurisdictions. His principal activities currently involve the: (1) "North Pole as a pole of peace" with the High Seas in the central Arctic Ocean as an undisputed international space; (2) conceptual development and practical implementation of environmental security in the Arctic Ocean; and (3) science-policy lessons from the first fifty years of the Antarctic Treaty System.

Paul Berkman has wintered, scuba-dived under the sea-ice and lead government-sponsored research expeditions to Antarctica. He is the author of Science into Policy: Global Lessons from Antarctica (Academic Press, 2002). Paul has a master's degree and doctorate in biological oceanography from the University of Rhode Island, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow. He also has received the Antarctic Service Medal from the United States Congress as well as a NASA Faculty Fellowships at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; Byrd Fellowship at the Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship at the National Institute of Polar Research in Japan; and Erskine Fellowship in the Gateway Antarctica, University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Paul came to the University of Cambridge in 2007-08 initially as a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar to plan the Antarctic Treaty Summit: Science-Policy Interaction in International Governance that will be convened at the Smithsonian Institution in 2009 on the 50^th anniversary of the signature-day for the Antarctic Treaty in the city where it was adopted "in the interest of all mankind."

Publications

Selected publications:

In press

2009 Berkman, P.A. and Young, O.R. Governance and Environmental Change in the Arctic Ocean. Science, in press.
2009 Berkman, P.A. Arctic Ocean Governance with the "North Pole as a Pole of Peace." The Circle (WWF International Arctic Progamme), in press.
2009 Berkman, P.A. Arctic Ocean State-Changes: Self Interests or Common Interests. Yearbook of Polar Law, in press.

Published

2008 Berkman, P.A., Walton, D.W.H. and Weiler, S. Antarctic Treaty Summit to Focus on Global Science Policy Lessons. Transactions of the American Geophysical Union (EOS) 89(42):406.
2008 Berkman, P.A. Once In A Hundred Generations. In: Halbert, M. and Skinner, K. (eds.). Strategies for Sustaining Digital Libraries. Emory University, Atlanta. Pp. 11-21.
2006 Berkman, P.A. , Morgan, G.J., Moore, R., Hamidzadeh, B. Automated Granularity to Integrate Digital Records: The "Antarctic Treaty Searchable Database" Case Study. CODATA (Committee on Data for Science and Technology) Data Science Journal. 5:84-99. Spanish Translation – Archivo Municipal, Cartagena, Spain. (http://archivo.cartagena.es/recursos/texto0_antarctica_dos.pdf)
2003 Berkman, P.A. International Polar Year 2007-08. Science 301: 1669.
2002 Berkman, P.A. Science Into Policy: Global Lessons From Antarctica. Academic Press, San Diego. 252 p.
1998 Berkman, P.A., Garton, D.W., Kennedy, G.W., Gannon, J.A., Mackey, S.E., Fuller, J.A., Liebenthal, D., Haltuch, M.A. and Tichich, E. Vast Invading Zebra Mussel Beds on Lake Sediments. Nature 393:27-28.
1998 Berkman, P.A., Andrews, J.T., Björck, S., Colhoun, E.A., Emslie, S.D. Goodwin, I., Hall, B.L., Hart, C.P., Hirakawa, K., Igarashi, A., Ingólfsson, O., López-Martínez, J., Lyons, W.B., Mabin, M.C.G., Quilty, P.G., Taviani, M. and Yoshida, Y. Circum-Antarctic Coastal Environmental Variability During the Late Quaternary Recorded in Emerged Marine Deposits. Antarctic Science 10(3):345-362.
1998 Berkman, P.A. and Ku, T.-H. ²²⁶Ra/Ba Ratios for Dating Holocene Biogenic Carbonates in the Southern Ocean: Preliminary Evidence from Coastal Mollusc Shells. Chemical Geology 144:331-334.
1996 Berkman, P.A. and Forman, S.L. Pre-Bomb Radiocarbon and the Reservoir Correction for Calcareous Marine Species in the Southern Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters 23:633-636.
1996 Berkman, P.A. and Prentice, M.L. Pliocene Extinction of Antarctic Pectinid Mollusks. Science 271:1606-1607.
1994 Berkman, P.A. and Yoshida, Y. (eds.). Holocene Environmental Changes in Antarctic Coastal Areas. Memoirs of the National Institute of Polar Research (Japan), Special Issue. No. 50. National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo. 107 p.
1992 Berkman, P.A. and Nigro, M. Trace Metal Concentrations in Scallops Around Antarctica: Extending the Mussel Watch Programme to the Southern Ocean. Marine Pollution Bulletin 24(6):322-323.
1992 Berkman, P.A. and Woyach, R.B. International Transitions in the Antarctic Treaty System. Polar Record 28(166):244-245.
1992 Berkman, P.A. The Antarctic Marine Ecosystem and Humankind. Reviews in Aquatic Sciences 6(3,4):295-333.
1992 Berkman, P.A. Circumpolar Distribution of Holocene Marine Fossils in Antarctic Beaches. Quaternary Research 37(2):256-260.
1990 Berkman, P.A. The Population Biology of the Antarctic Scallop, Adamussium colbecki (Smith, 1902) at New Harbor, Ross Sea. In: Kerry, K.R. and Hempel, G. (eds.) Antarctic Ecosystems: Ecological Change and Conservation. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg. pp. 281-288.
1986 Berkman, P.A., Marks, D.S. and Shreve, G.P. Winter Sediment Resuspension In Mcmurdo Sound, Antarctica, and its Ecological Implications. Polar Biology 6(1):1-3.
1984 Berkman, P.A. SCUBA Diving in Antarctica. In: Rey, L. (ed.) Arctic Underwater Operations. Graham and Trotman, London. p. 123-133.

Teaching

"Graduate Certificate in Antarctic Studies;" Gateway Antarctica, University of Cantebury, Christchurch, New Zealand (2002).
"Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. Interdepartmental Seminar Series;" Department of Geography (GEOG 694), Department of Geological Sciences (GEOL 694), School of Natural Resources (NAT RES 694), School of Public Policy (PUB POL 894), The Ohio State University (1998)
"Law of the Sea;" University Center for International Studies (UCIS 501D), The Ohio State University (1996-2003)
"Marine Biology and Ecology;" Franz Theodore Stone Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology (EEOB 505), The Ohio State University, (1992-1999).
"Antarctic Marine Ecology and Policy;" Cross-Listed Capstone Course - University Center for International Studies; School of Natural Resources; Department of Zoology; Honors Program (UCIS/NAT RES/ZOO 597.02), The Ohio State University (1991-2003).
"Antarctic Ecology and Paleoecology;" Department of Geology and Mineralogy (GEOL 896), The Ohio State University. (1990).
"Antarctic Science;" Graduate School of Oceanography (OCG 694I), University of Rhode Island, (1987).
"Antarctic Marine Ecology and Ocean Policy;" Council on Educational Development, University of California, Los Angeles (1982).
"An Ecological Approach to Adaptation;" College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara (1980).

External activities

Selected external activities:

2009: Co-convenor, Cumberland Lodge conference on The Antarctic Treaty: 50 Years of Preserving Peace.
2008-2009: Member, Working Group on Environmental Policy, Arctic TRANSFORM Project, European Commission.
2007-Present: Chair, International Board for the Antarctic Treaty Summit: Science-Policy Interactions in International Governance (www.atsummit50.aq)
2005-2008: Chair, Working Group on Knowledge Management and Discovery. Electronic Geophysical Year.
2004-2007: Chair, Sustainability Standing Committee for the National Science Foundation, National Science Digital Library (NSDL) program.
2002-2006: United States Team Member: International Preservation of Authentic Electronic Records (InterPARES 2) Project.
1999-2002: Chair, Project CLEAR (Community Leadership to Effect Air Emission Reductions): City of Columbus, Ohio.
1998-2003: Member: Diving Control Board, The Ohio State University.
1997-2000: Member, Steering Committee: Antarctic Ice Margin Evolution (ANTIME) Program, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) / International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (PAGES).
1994-2004: Member, Steering Committee: West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Program, National Science Foundation and National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
1994-1996: Member, Science Advisory Group: Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN).
1992-1997: Member, Board of Directors: Friends of Stone Laboratory, Ohio State University Alumni Fund.