Recent Work

Forthcoming Chapter:

  • The Ecosystem Approach and Ecosystem-based Management in the Arctic Council, (with M. Dervovic & K. Heinrich) in T. Koivurova & M. Smieszek (eds), The Elgar Companion to the Arctic Council, expected 2025 

Recent PUBLICATIONS include:

  • Food security crisis in the Yukon River Basin: where have the salmon gone and what can be done? (with Doug McMaster et al.), Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, vol. 57, Issue 1, Taylor and Francis 2025
  • The Executive Summary of the Outer Limits of the United States Extended Continental Shelf in the Arctic and Beyond: Transparent and Consistent with International Law, Wilson Center Polar Institute Insights and Analysis, December 2023
  • Marine Scientific Research in the Arctic, in Y. Tanaka, R. Johnstone, V. Ulfbeck (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Polar Law 2023
  • Attributes of a First-in-Class Environmental Program, A Letter Report Prepared for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, (with C. Johnson et al.), National Academies Press, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2022
  • Beyond the Northern Sea Route: Enhancing Russian-United States Cooperation in the Bering Strait Region, Wilson Center Polar Perspectives No. 8, November 2021 
  • Smart as SILK: An innovative advisory body for implementing the knowledge-based requirements of the Central Arctic Ocean Fisheries Agreement, Wilson Center Polar Perspectives No. 4, April 2021 
  • Arctic Overlaps — The Surprising Story of Continental Shelf Diplomacy, Wilson Center Polar Perspectives No. 3, November 2020, Wilson Center Polar Institute
  •  “Resource Rights in the Continental Shelf and Beyond: Why the Law of the Sea Convention Matters to Mineral Law,” Proceedings of the 64th Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute (2018) 2-1 to 2-31 (with Catherine Danley)

Recent PRESENTATIONS include:

  • The United States Extended Continental Shelf and Alaska, Unratified: The International Law of the Sea Treaties and Their Potential for Protecting Arctic Resources and Cultures, Juneau World Affairs Council, Juneau AK, October 2025
  • Japan’s Arctic Policy and the Rule of Law and The Central Arctic Ocean Fisheries Agreement, Commentator, Rovaniemi Workshop on the Review of Japan’s Arctic Policy, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Finland, September 2024
  • Discovery across Disciplines: R/V-based International Collaboration for Science, Law, and Policy, JAMSTEC International Workshop on Arctic Ocean Observation, Future Collaboration by Research Vessels and Icebreakers​, Tokyo, November 17, 2023 and JAMSTEC-Yokohama, December 1, 2023
  • Marine Life in the Central Arctic Ocean:  What’s the Law Beyond National Jurisdiction? Pacific Arctic Group, Tokyo, November 16, 2023
  • Fisheries, Biodiversity & International Law in the Central Arctic Ocean: The BBNJ & CAOF Agreements, UAF IARC / Hokkaido University Arctic Research Center, International Joint Series on Ocean Sciences, June 19, 2023
  • Meaning of Melt: Diverse Consequences of Diminishing Ice, Arctic Encounter Symposium, Anchorage, AK, March 29, 2023 (Media coverage: Alena Naiden, Sea ice loss affects biodiversity, economy and travel safety, Alaska hunters and scientists say, Alaska Dispatch News, April 6, 2023)
  • Bering Strait: Navigation and Conservation in Times of Conflict, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center, November 2, 2022
  • Ocean Policy and Management: The Central Arctic Ocean Fisheries Agreement as a new international model, Vermont Journal of Enviornmental Law 24th Annual Symposium, Oceans 1.5”, November 5, 2022 
  • International Law, Ukraine, and the Arctic:  Is Operational Co-existence Possible?, Panel, Arctic Circle Assembly and 15th Polar Law Symposium, Reykjavik, Iceland, October 13, 2022