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Background Already during my bachelor’s in environmental science, I learned about NAMMCO and used their species distribution maps in my presentations. The timing was always off to apply for the [...]

A year ago, ahead of the United Nations Food Summit 2021, NAMMCO sent a letter to the UN Special Envoy for the 2021 Food Systems Summit, Dr. Agnes Kalibata, with copy to the Director of the [...]

  Background My first contact with NAMMCO’s work was during my Marine Mammal Sciences Masters in Scotland, where we studied the management of marine mammals and I focussed on the Arctic for [...]

Background I first learned about NAMMCO during my Polar Law studies in Iceland. As we studied the protection and conservation of the Arctic marine environment, the work of the Commission was [...]

The North Atlantic and the North Pacific abounds in whales, but for most of them, we know very little about their migration patterns and wintering grounds. The fast-moving rorquals (the fin, sei, [...]

Background My name is Nicolai Pilgård Scherdin and I have had the pleasure of spending the past 6 months as an intern at the NAMMCO Secretariat. Being a Danish Biology MSc student, I had first [...]

Background My name is Mana Tugend and I have been working at the NAMMCO Secretariat for the past year – nine months as an intern and the following three as Scientific and Communication [...]

If you want to know more about the Intern programme click here NAMMCO and me I am Sabine, and I have been the intern at NAMMCO for the last seven months. My first contact with NAMMCO was while [...]

Following the success of last year’s student symposium, NAMMCO, in association with the University of Tromsø, hosted a second marine mammal student symposium on the theme: “Making a [...]

In addition to working as Lead Facilitator for Homeward Bound (see previous posts here, here and here), I also had the opportunity to design and deliver a session on the interaction between [...]