Duke University Press – Blue Legalities

“Not a minute too early, the ‘blue turn’ finally takes pride of place in legal thinking. Blue Legalities balances the… Read more Duke University Press – Blue Legalities

AAG 2019 CfP: Assembling Benthic Power

Face the perils of the deep with us! CfP – Assembling Benthic Power AAG Annual Meeting, April 3-7, 2019, Washington,… Read more AAG 2019 CfP: Assembling Benthic Power

Excited to have been interviewed for this great podcast about the past and potential future of undersea habitats. Please have… Read more Under the Sea, Flash Forward podcast

“Sammler’s brilliant chapter on deep ocean mining, for example, powerfully reminds us that the relationships between territory, sovereignty, law, and… Read more Review of Island Geographies: Essays and Conversations (2017)

Stop by this event and say hello! I’ll be on a panel discussing seabed mining.

Watch an artistic, informative video about seabed mining created by the inhabitants with Margarida Mendes. I contributed some of my… Read more inhabitants: What is Deep Sea Mining? Episode 1: Tools for Ocean Literacy

Join me in a discussion of sea level and coastlines as places of scientific and political uncertainty! Saturday, July 29,… Read more 2017 Blue Room Lecture Series — San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park

I’ll be teaching this June at the Summer Institute for k-12 Educators, titled The View from the Sea: Oceans in World History. This… Read more UC Berkeley: The View from the Sea: Oceans in World History

I’m looking forward to joining with a great group of scholars to participate in this workshop in February, 2017! This… Read more Ocean Legalities Workshop: The Law and Life of the Sea

I am excited to have been included in this edited volume, due out September, 2017. Island Geographies: Essays and Conversations (2016).… Read more The Deep Pacific: Island Governance and Seabed Mineral Development