REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
2026
Saputra, M. A., Novianti, K., Thufail, F. I., and Sammler, K. G. (2026). The paradox of sensing: Indonesian seabed mining sense-ability and insensitivity to benthic habitat degradation. Geoforum, 174:104674. Open Access until Jul9 2026: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1n83J3pILpR4L. Paywalled: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104674
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 profiling via satellite to satellite occultations near water and ozone absorption lines for weather and climate. SPIE 9881, Earth Observing Missions & Sensors: Development, 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, Wheelwright, 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. Laboratory 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 Temperature, 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
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).
Hine, Peters & Sammler. Voyage to the Seabed: an Experiential Guide to the Deep Ocean Floor. Bristol University Press (proposal accepted).
Saputra & Sammler. 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.
Coles, Sammler, & Bien. Sediment transport and the implications for Vietnam’s territorial sovereignty. Political Geography
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP & OUTREACH
2026
Expert, interviewed for public radio The World, segment “The coastline paradox” by M. Werman & H. Chanatry, 20 Apr. https://theworld.org/segments/2026/04/20/the-coastline-paradox
Expert, interviewed for podcast Anti-Dystopians, episode “Astronauts on Strike! Spaceports, Colonial Telescopes and Labor Unions in the Stars” by A. Utrata, 20 Feb. https://alinautrata.substack.com/p/astronauts-on-strike-spaceports-colonial.
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.
Contributor, Zine: “Space poop”. 11 Mar. GEOZone. https://geoz.one/zines/space-waste.
2023
Contributor, blog. Hetzler, Giraldo, Kunz, & Sammler. “Teufelsberg: More-than-Mountain”. AG Umweltethnologie, Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozial-und Kultur-anthropologie. https://umweltethnologie.com/2023/02/08/teufelsberg-more-than-mountain.
Contributor, Zine: “Seabed mining activity and coloring book”. Marine Political Ecology Collective. 9 Jun. GEOZone. https://geoz.one/zines/seabed-mining
2020
Contributor, newsletter. Sammler. “A Marine Political Ecology Perspective”. HIFMB Newsletter, #01/21. https://hifmb.de/news/newsletter/.
2019
Expert, interviewed for video shorts: “What is Deep Sea Mining?” Episode 1: “Tools for Ocean Literacy” and Episode 4: “A Deep Sea Mining Glossary.” inhabitants-tv.org. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE8vpJ5ZO56-2hs__MNEzNWWp2KWIt5DH.
2018
Expert, interviewed for podcast episode, “Under the Sea”, Flash Forward, by Rose Eveleth. https://www.flashforwardpod.com/2018/07/31/under-the-sea/.
Contributor, online publication. Sammler. “Vibranium and the super nature of earthly materials.” Museum of the Moving Image: Sloan Science & Film. https://scienceandfilm.org/articles/3065/vibranium-and-the-super-nature-of-earthly-materials.
2013
Contributor, newsletter. Sammler & House-Peters.”Tracing L.A.’s marine topographies: Climate, currents, & calamari.” Association of American Geographers Newsletter 48(1). https://www.geomentors.net/cs/news_detail_pressrelease_id-1940.html
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