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THE HIGH SEAS

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Author, Journalist, Speaker & Academic

Dr. Olive Heffernan is an award-winning science journalist who writes about oceans and climate change for a broad range of international publications. Olive started her career as a marine biologist and postdoc research scientist. Her work has appeared in Nature, National Geographic, Scientific American, New Scientist, WIRED, BBC, Salon, Nature Climate Change and Guardian. Her first book THE HIGH SEAS: AMBITION, POWER AND GREED ON THE UNCLAIMED OCEAN is forthcoming in May 2024.

Before going freelance, Olive was an editor with Nature in London for five years, first covering climate change online, before becoming the first chief editor of the pioneering research journal Nature Climate Change. In 2019, Olive established a course on Communicating Climate Change at Johns Hopkins University, as part of their Master’s Program in Science Writing. In 2020, she received a Giles St Aubyn award from the Royal Society of Literature for non-fiction, for her forthcoming book THE HIGH SEAS.

Highlighted Features

France’s membership lends weight to coalition for ocean sustainability

March 2022, China Dialogue

Moving the dial on ocean-based CO2 removal

China Dialogue, April, 2022

Who Owns the Ocean’s Genes? Tension on the High Seas

Scientific American, Sept 12, 2022

UN high seas treaty is a landmark – but science needs to fill the gaps

Nature, March 2023

Stemming the Threat of Biopiracy on the High Seas

UnDark, May 2024

Stemming the Threat of Biopiracy on the High Seas

TruthDig, May 2024

Squid fisheries are booming in a regulatory vacuum

China Dialogue, May 25, 2023

Gruner Goldrausch in der Tiefsee

Le Monde diplomatique, August 2023

Hypocrisy is threatening the future of the world’s oceans

Nature, 5 September 2023

Protecting wildlife in the high seas

BBC Wildlife, September 2023

Deep-Sea Mining Could Begin Soon, Regulated or Not

Scientific American, September 1, 2023

France’s membership lends weight to coalition for ocean sustainability

March 2022, China Dialogue

Moving the dial on ocean-based CO2 removal

China Dialogue, April, 2022

Who Owns the Ocean’s Genes? Tension on the High Seas

Scientific American, Sept 12, 2022

UN high seas treaty is a landmark – but science needs to fill the gaps

Nature, March 2023

Stemming the Threat of Biopiracy on the High Seas

UnDark, May 2024

Stemming the Threat of Biopiracy on the High Seas

TruthDig, May 2024

Squid fisheries are booming in a regulatory vacuum

China Dialogue, May 25, 2023

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"An urgently needed wake-up call about the threat to some of the planet's most vital but often overlooked ecosystems: the deep oceans. Profoundly informed, passionately written and thrillingly adventurous, Heffernan's book is both a masterful study in natural history and a forensic survey of the forces and activities that could cause irreparable harm to these precious resources."

PHILIP BALL, Author of CRITICAL MASS & Other Books

Appearances

High Seas treaty talks and discoveries from the deep

BBC Radio 4 Inside Science, March 2022

Episode 259: THE HIGH SEAS:

Sustainabbable

Game changers

December 2022, Radio 4 BBC Inside Science

Historic agreement reached to protect world's oceans

RTE Radio 1, March 2023

An ocean of opportunities

BBC Radio 4, Inside Science

The halfway point to sustainable development

BBC Radio 4 Inside Science

High Seas treaty talks and discoveries from the deep

BBC Radio 4 Inside Science, March 2022

Episode 259: THE HIGH SEAS:

Sustainabbable

Game changers

December 2022, Radio 4 BBC Inside Science

Historic agreement reached to protect world's oceans

RTE Radio 1, March 2023

To enquire about my availability, contact heffernan.olive@gmail.com

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