REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
2025
Sebuliba, S. and Sammler, K. G. (2025). Governing biodiversity: ambiguity and fragmentation in the BBNJ Agreement. Ocean & Coastal Management, 270:107913.Open access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2025.107913.
Sebuliba, S., Elma, E., and Sammler, K. G. (2025). “Our fish are not your marine biodiversity”: Tensions in integrating fisheries into the BBNJ agreement. npj Ocean Sustainability, 4(44). Open access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s44183-025-00142-5.
2024
Hine, Brinkhoff, Pasco Bolta, Peters, Sammler & Tietje. Sedimentary relations: cultures of access and the matter of shallow seabed coring. Cultural Geographies. Open access: https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740241293105.
Sammler, K . Intimate outer space: Gravity, waste, & the spatial orientation of bodies. GeoHumanities, 10(1), 171–191. Open access: https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2024.2325947.
Saputra, M and K. Sammler. Volumetric, embodied, and granular geopolitics of the seabed: Offshore tin mining in Indonesia. Territory, Politics, Governance, 1–19. Open access: https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2024.2334821.
2023
Sammler K, and L. House-Peters. Unblackboxing mediation in the digital mine. Geoforum, 141:103745. Open access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103745
Sammler, K & K. Peters. Introduction to forum on Contesting the Ocean Decade: Plural Provocations on the Universal Sea. Society & Space. Open access: https://www.societyandspace.org/forums/contesting-the-ocean-decade-plural-provocations-on-the-universal-sea
2022
Sammler, K. and L. Hartman. Polar Magnetograms: Stitches in Space. Humanities, Arts, and Society, July(05):1-10. Open access: https://humanitiesartsandsociety.org/magazine/polar-magnetograms-stitches-in-space/
2021
Sammler K. and C. Lynch. Observation and occupation: Settler colonialism and space science infrastructure in Hawai’i. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 39(5):945–965. Open access: https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758211042374
Sammler, K. and C. Lynch. Spaceport America: Contested offworld access and the everyman astronaut. Geopolitics, 26(3):704–728. Special Section: Critical Geopolitics of Outer Space. Open access: https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2019.1569631.
2020
Sammler, K. The rising politics of sea level: demarcating territory in a vertically relative world. Territory, Politics, Governance, 8(5):604–620. Paywalled: https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2019.163221. Preprint: https://saltygeographies.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2019_sammler_sealevel_territorypoliticsgovernance.pdf
BOOK CHAPTERS
2025
Savitzky, Peters & Sammler. Bordering marine belonging: The meanings, mobilities and materialities of bioinvasion. In Turner & Peters (eds.), Ocean Governance (Beyond) Borders. Full book: https://www.waterstones.com/book/ocean-governance-beyond-borders/kimberley-peters/jennifer-turner/9783031713217.
2020
Sammler, K. “Kauri and the whale: Oceanic matter and meaning in New Zealand” pp. 63-84, in I. Braverman and E. Johnson (eds.), Blue legalities: The law and life of the sea, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Full book: https://www.dukeupress.edu/blue-legalities. Chapter preprint: https://saltygeographies.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/sammler_kauriwhale_proof.pdf
2017
Sammler, K. “The deep Pacific: Island governance and seabed mineral development” pp. 10-31, in Stratford (ed.), Island geographies: Essays and conversations, New York, NY: Routledge. Full book: https://www.routledge.com/Island-Geographies-Essays-and-conversations/Stratford/p/book/9781138921726. Chapter preprint: https://saltygeographies.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/sammler_chapter2_final.pdf
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
2016
Kursinski, Ward, Otarola, McGhee, Stovern, Sammler, et al. Atmospheric profil- ing via satellite to satellite occultations near water and ozone absorption lines for weather and climate. SPIE 9881, Earth Observing Missions & Sensors: Develop- ment, Implementation, & Characterization. New Delhi, India 2 May. Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2224038
2015
Sammler, K. From Ocean Abyss to Vacuum of Space: Privatization in the Vertical Commons. Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Palm Springs, CA 21-24 Oct.
2010
Kursinski, Otarola, Ward, Young, Albanna, Groppi, Stickney, Stovern, Wheel- wright, Duffy, Schein, Sammler, et al. The Active Temperature, Ozone and Moisture Microwave Spectrometer (ATOMMS), A New Global Climate Sensor. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (p. 2952-2955). Honolulu, HI, 25–30 Jul. Open access: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5653877
Kursinski, Young, Otarola, Stovern, Wheelwright, Ward, Sammler, et al. Labora- tory and ground testing results from ATOMMS: The Active Temperature, Ozone and Moisture Microwave Spectrometer. 21st International Symposium on Space TeraHertz Technology, Oxford, 23-25 Mar. Open access: https://www.nrao.edu/meetings/isstt/papers/2010/2010186194.pdf
2009
AlBanna, Groppi, Walker, Schein, Bell, Wheelwright, d’Aubigny, Young, Golish, Kursinsk, Otarola, Ward, Sammler, et al. A Single 30 cm aperture antenna design for the operation of 2 widely separated frequency bands for the Active Tempera- ture, Ozone and Moisture Microwave Spectrometer (ATOMMS). 20th International Symposium on Space Terahertz Technology, Charlottesville, VA 20-22 Apr. Available here: https://www.nrao.edu/meetings/isstt/papers/2009/2009230237.pdf
2008
Kursinski, Ward, Otarola, Sammler, et al. The Active Temperature Ozone and Moisture Microwave Spectrometer (ATOMMS), ECMWF GRAS SAF workshop on GPS radio occultation. Shinfield Park, UK. 16-18 Jun. Open access: https://www.nrao.edu/meetings/isstt/papers/2009/2009230237.pdf
BOOK REVIEWS
2017
Sammler, K. Book review: Seascapes: Shaped by the sea eds by Brown & Humberstone.The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien Apr 61(2). Open access: https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12370
2015
Sammler, K. Territory as political technology: review of Stuart Elden’s The birth of territory. Contrivers’ Review 2 Mar.
2013
Sammler, K. Book review: Island enclaves: Offshoring, creative governance and subnational island jurisdictions by Baldacchino. Cultural Geographies 20(2): 262. Open access: https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474013478369
Sammler, K. Book review: Island enclaves by Godfrey Baldacchino. Current Issues in Comparative Education 15(1): 182-184. Open access: https://www.tc.columbia.edu/media/centers-amp-labs/cice/pdfs/past-issues/25996_15_01_BR_Island-Enclaves.pdf.
MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
2025
Rosenboom, Sammler & Poole. The Octopus and Industrial Aquaculture: Between Exploitation, Alienation, and Resistance (submitted).
Sebuliba & Sammler. What is biodiversity? Tracing meanings and practices from the CBD to the BBNJ (submitted).
Saputra, Sammler & Peters. Plumes as colonial inheritance in Indonesia’s offshore tin mining.
Sammler. From mountain to sea: Socio-political orogenesis and granular geographies of Mt. Taranaki, Aotearoa New Zealand.
2026
Coles, Sammler, & Bien. Sediment transport and the implications for Vietnam’s territorial sovereignty. Political Geography
Hine, Peters & Sammler. Voyage to the Seabed: an Experiential Guide to the Deep Ocean Floor. Bristol University Press (proposal accepted).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
2018
Sammler. Vibranium and the super nature of earthly materials. Museum of the Moving Image: Sloan Science & Film. Available here: https://scienceandfilm.org/articles/3065/vibranium-and-the-super-nature-of-earthly-materials.
2020
Sammler. A Marine Political Ecology Perspective. HIFMB Newsletter, #01/21. Available here: https://hifmb.de/news/newsletter/.
2013
Sammler and House-Peters. Tracing L.A.’s marine topographies: Climate, currents, & calamari. Association of American Geographers Newsletter 48(1). Available here: https://www.academia.edu/15772849/Tracing_L_A_s_marine_topographies_Climate_currents_and_calamari.
CREATIVE COLLABORATIONS & OUTREACH
2024
Expert, interviewed for article: What’s the ‘coastline paradox’? by Alice Sun. Live- Science. https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/whats-the-coastline-paradox.
Expert, interviewed for article: Pooping on the Moon Is a Messy Business by Becky Ferreira. Wired magazine. https://www.wired.com/story/pooping-on-the-moon-is-a-messy-business/.
Contributor, Exhibition: Insurgent seabed archive: curating seabed memories by J. Galka. At Nanyang Technological University ADM Gallery, Singapore and TBA21–Academy Ocean Space, Venice, Italy. https://ntu.ccasingapore.org/exhibition/climate-crisis-and-cultural-loss/ & https://www.ocean-space.org/exhibitions/latai-taumoepeau-elisapeta-hinemoa-heta-re-storying-oceania.
Contributor, Zine: Space poop. 11 Mar. Download here: https://saltygeographies.net/2024/03/11/new-article-and-zine-on-gravity-waste-and-the-spatial-orientation/.
2023
Contributor, Zine: Seabed mining activity and coloring book. Marine Political Ecology Collective. 9 Jun. Download here: https://saltygeographies.net/2023/06/09/seabed-mining-zine/.
2019
Expert, interviewed for video shorts: What is Deep Sea Mining? Episode 1: Tools for Ocean Literacy and What is Deep Sea Mining? Episode 4: A Deep Sea Mining Glossary, series “What is Deep Sea Mining,” inhabitants-tv.org. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE8vpJ5ZO56-2hs__MNEzNWWp2KWIt5DH.
2018
Guest, Podcast episode Under the Sea, Flash Forward, by Rose Eveleth. Listen here: https://www.flashforwardpod.com/2018/07/31/under-the-sea/.
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