Publications
Our publications include more than traditional reports. They span formats such as StoryMaps, apps, photo essays and multimedia. Each one is designed to communicate complex environmental challenges in ways that are visual, engaging, and grounded in real-world impact.
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From Source to Sea: Protecting our Ocean through Partnership and Investments
Protecting Our Oceans through Partnership and Investments
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Marine Plastic Pollution as a Planetary Boundary Threat: The Drifting Piece in the Sustainability Puzzle
The exponential increase in the use of plastic in modern society and the inadequate management of the resulting waste have led to its accumulation in the marine environment. There is increasing evidence of numerous mechanisms by which marine plastic pollution is causing effects across successive levels of biological organization. This will unavoidably impact ecological communities…
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Challenges and Emerging Solutions to the Land-Based Plastic Waste Issue in Africa
In recent years, there has been a tremendous increase in work that focuses on the amount and types of waste entering the marine environment from multiple geographies around the world. To date, however, there are few reports about the scale of waste entering the coastal and oceanic waters around Africa. To address this knowledge gap,…
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Oceanic Blue Carbon – How Marine Life Can Help to Combat Climate Change
This Story Map uses infographics & geospatial data to describe the various ways that marine life contribute to carbon storage in the ocean.
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Oceanic Blue Carbon (Flyer)
Oceanic blue carbon includes the carbon stored through the actions of marine life, from krill to whales.
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A New 30 Meter Resolution Global Shoreline Vector and Associated Global Islands Database for the Development of Standardized Ecological Coastal Units
A new 30-m spatial resolution global shoreline vector (GSV) was developed from annual composites of 2014 Landsat satellite imagery. The semi-automated classification of the imagery was accomplished by manual selection of training points representing water and non-water classes along the entire global coastline. Polygon topology was applied to the GSV, resulting in a new characterization…
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Eutrophication in the Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is sick. It suffers from algal blooms, oxygen-depleted zones, loss of biodiversity and declining fish populations.
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Depositional and Geomorphic Characteristics of Ocean Basins at Different Stages of their Evolution – The Wilson Cycle Revisited
The evolution of major ocean basins of the world is associated with the development of characteristic assemblages of seafloor geomorphic and depositional features. We carried out a multivariate classification of ocean basins, based on an existing digital global map of seafloor features that are related to major phases of evolution according to the Wilson Cycle,…
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Stop Talking Trash about Marine Litter
Debunking the Myths about Plastic Debris in our Ocean
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ECOPOTENTIAL: Improving Future Ecosystem Benefits through Earth Observations
Analysis of Ecosystem Services and Earth Observation Capacity and Needs by ECOPOTENTIAL Protected Areas
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Sanitation and Wastewater in Africa
The relationship between sanitation and wastewater management is crucial in terms of Africa’s social, economic and ecological concerns.
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Protecting Marine Mammals in Crowded Waters
A story map about how satellite technology is being used to help conserve marine mammals in the Mediterranean.
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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Search Data Reveal Geomorphology and Seafloor Processes in the Remote Southeast Indian Ocean
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370) was a scheduled international passenger flight that disappeared on 8 March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing, China. In the ensuing multi-national effort to search for aircraft wreckage, a large area of ocean floor was mapped using ship-mounted multibeam echosounders (MBES), providing unprecedented detail in an otherwise…
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Arctic Marine Conservation is not Prepared for the Coming Melt
As the summer minimum in Arctic sea ice cover reduces in area year by year due to anthropogenic global climate change, so interest grows in the un-tapped oil, gas and fisheries resources that were previously concealed beneath. We show that existing marine protected areas in the Arctic Ocean offer little or no protection to many…
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Ecosystem Services: In the Coastal Zone of the Nordic Countries
People are dependent on the ocean and coasts and their resources for their survival and well-being. Coastal ecosystems of the Nordic countries, such as kelp forests, blue mussel beds, eelgrass meadows and shallow bays and inlets, provide a number of supporting, provisioning, regulating and cultural ecosystem services to both the local communities as well as…
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Ecosystem Services of Blue Mussel Beds
The pdf file is available by purchase in the link: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Ecosystem-services-of-blue-mussel-beds-Sandman-Andersen/202e35887791528294094e024c39ae11bf719a46
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Ecosystem Services of Shallow Bays and Inlets
The pdf file is available by purchase in the link: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Ecosystem-services-of-shallow-bays-and-inlets-Sandman-Andersen/4bd7880acaa0ebad19165b67d8449299a02a51bd
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The Oceans and Seas of the Nordic Countries
The pdf file is available by purchase in the link: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-oceans-and-seas-of-the-Nordic-countries-Sandman-Andersen/0f6179fab6202a7c9cc77aa4e6069293eb3b8a32
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Ecosystem Services of Eelgrass Meadows
The pdf file is available by purchase in the link: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Ecosystem-services-of-eelgrass-meadows-Sandman-Andersen/203126ba379c8ce5eb0ba13016dbea9b5ec2f768
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Ecosystem Services of Kelp Forests
The pdf file is available by purchase in the link: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Ecosystem-services-of-kelp-forests-Sandman-Andersen/ebb8e7dd08fc18412ded5cd979794caec90b5a2e
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Adaptation in the Himalayas: Knowledge, Action and Results
Highlights from the Himalayan Climate Change Adaptation Programme (HICAP), 2012–2017
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Smoke on Water: Countering Global Threats from Peatland Loss and Degradation
GRID-Arendal produced a peer-reviewed rapid response assessment to support the Global Peatlands Initiative in its initial work.
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Incentives for Ecosystem Services (IES) in the Himalayas: A ‘Cookbook’ for Emerging IES Practitioners in the Region
Each country and region of the Hindu Kush Himalayas (HKH) faces pressing environmental and developmental challenges …
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Climate Change and Security in the South Caucasus Republic of Armenia, Republic of Azerbaijan and Georgia: Regional Assessment
Climate change in the South Caucasus countries is clearly evident. Recent research confirms that average annual air temperatures are steadily increasing and extreme weather events, such as storms and heatwaves, have been intensifying over the last few decades. The South Caucasus countries are prone to a range of hazards such as landslides and floods, all…
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Smoke on Water (Story Map) – Countering Global Threats from Peatland Loss and Degradation
Story Map – Peatlands are among the world’s underappreciated natural treasures…
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Mine Tailings Storage: Safety Is no Accident
The report was prompted by tailings dam disasters and rising concerns about the safety and impacts of the mining industry’s waste practices.