Current work-in-progress projects and expeditions:

• ‘Where We Are is Here’ (after Orkney poet and film maker Margaret Tait) project developing a printed publication and exhibition in collaboration with glaciologist Oddur Sigurdson at the Icelandic Meteorological Office, Iceland. 2023. Just back from Iceland filming at Drangajökull from the Kaldalon side of the glacier and taking part in a glacier funeral at OK glacier. Last expedition was in May 2024 filming with the Icelandic Glaciological Society on Myrdallsjökull mass balance measuring expedition.

• SurvØY - Building a creative island almanac in collaboration with artist Jonathan Ford - Creative Scotland Open Art Commission 2021-2024. website soon launching.

• ‘Restore the Shore’ printed manual publication and film funded by North Isles Landscape Partnership, Historic Environment Scotland, Lottery funded. Next film showing - Montrose LandxSea film festival 13th-15th Sept 2024.

• February 2024 expedition to Malaysia to collaborate with Dr. Jarina Mohd Jani, human ecologist at University of Terengannu, following her work with the Mah Meri on Carey island observing their annual sea ceremony. Jarina and her colleagues are now visiting Orkney for the Orkney Science Festival in September 2024.

• Uillinn West Cork Art residency - June 2024 - working with many ‘Lough Ine-ologists’ - UCC marine scientists, Lough Lappers, Atlantic kayakers and local experts on and about Lough Ine - a unique glacial origin sea water lake that used to be fresh water with an amazing asymmetric tide and was the first designated MPA in Europe in the 1980s. Lough Hyne.

Current or recent reading material:

Eruptions that Shook the World - Clive Oppenheimer

Mountains of Fire: The Secret Lives of Volcanoes - Clive Oppenheimer.

Iceland - its volcanoes, geysers, and glaciers - Charles Stuart Forbes

Glaciers and Landscapes - David E Sugden and Brian S. John.

Lough Hyne from prehistory to the present - Terri Kearney

The High Seas - Olive Heffernan

Earth Emotions - New Words for a New World - Glenn A. Albrecht

Sea change- an atlas of islands in a rising ocean - Christina Gerhardt

On Time and Water - Andri Snaer Magnason

Geographic names of Iceland’s Glaciers: historic and modern by Oddur Sigurdson and Richard S. Williams Jr.

The Dance documentary about the making of Mám - by choreographer Michael Keegan Dolan

Farm Fatale by Philip Quesne

https://dublintheatrefestival.ie/programme/event/farm-fatale

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/12/seawalls-nature-based-alternatives-us

The Crystal Desert - David G. Campbell

While the Fires Burn - a glacier odyssey - Daniel Schwartz

Comets - photographs from the Rosetta Space Probe - Jean Pierre Bibring and Hanns Zischler

The Song of the Dodo - Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction- by David Quammen

Reliquiae Vol 9 No 2 - Corbel Stone Press

Archipelago, a reader - edited by Nicholas Allen and Fiona Stafford

Vast Expanses, a history of the Oceans - by Helen M. Rozwadowski

Ice Rivers - by Jemma Wadham

Lost Woods - by Rachel Carson

Not too Late, changing the climate story from despair to possibility - edited by Rebecca Solnit, Thelma Young and Lutunatabua

Interesting talks I have listened to online recently:

SHRE: Oceans, Art and Environmental Defenders.

Karen Barad - Re-membering Time'/s for the time being. Recording soon on the IMMA website:

https://imma.ie/whats-on/karen-barad-remembering-time/

Linnean Society talk with atmospheric scientist Markus Rex from the icebreaker expedition to the arctic during the pandemic.

https://members.linnean.org/events/6241e197b085e80008f1633b/description