MAST Asst. Professor Kroum Batchvarov is involved with one of the largest maritime archaeology projects ever undertaken since the emergence of maritime archaeology in the 1960s. UConn is the only non-European institution invited as co-PI on this project.
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Water, Water Everywhere, Paean to a Vanishing Resource
Please join us for an extraordinary exhibition of great importance to all:
“Water, Water Everywhere
Paean to a Vanishing Resource”
“Water is the world’s most crucial resource and the basis for all earthly life. Its preservation and protection may be our greatest environmental challenge. The global water crisis affects everyone, from those lacking enough to those experiencing uncontrollable floods that wipe away homes and land and wildlife.
Water, Water Everywhere is comprised of 30 second to 30 minute films from forty-one artists worldwide exploring water issues from the political to the personal and from ethics to
aesthetics, with works that are documentary, experimental, educational, humorous, solemn, animated or acted.”
(Jennifer Heath, curator)
In harmony with this theme the exhibition will include 2 and 3 dimensional work by regional artists.
(curated by Julia Pavone & David Madacsi)
Friday, September 11th, 2015
06:00 PM – 08:00 PM
Avery Point Campus
AvS Gallery, Branford House
THATCamp Maritime to be held in Groton, CT 4-5 March 2016
THATCamp Maritime will be meeting in Groton, CT at the beautiful, historic mansion of Morton Plant at the University of Connecticut / Avery Point.
Please mark your calendars for 4-5 March 2016.
The “build” stage of the camp will construct several “special interest trails” focused on Maritime Connecticut. These trails will highlight the rich educational and heritage features found Connecticut as well as a tie into the State’s current-day maritime industries. These trails might feature educational institutions, outdoor museums, lighthouse museums, military bases and memorials, historic and modern-day ferries, and similar attractions.
http://maritime2016.thatcamp.org/
MAST student Alyssa Potter featured among CLAS Graduating Senior stories
Alyssa was featured among feature among 11 students alongside 2,700 Class of 2015 graduates!
Prof. Syma Ebbin’s class voyages overnight on Mystic Whaler, April 24-25
Prof. Trumbull speaks at World Russia Forum in Washington, DC
Professor Trumbull spoke at the World Russia Forum in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2015 about the results of the U.S. State Dept.-funded “Best Practices of Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Plants” online course. The Millstone Nuclear Power Plant in Waterford lies within 8 miles of the Avery Point campus.
Helen Rozwadowski is plenary speaker at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Jubilee Symposia, Univ. of Gothenburg, Feb 17-18, 2015
Helen Rozwadowski is plenary speaker at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Jubilee Symposia, Univ. of Gothenburg, Feb 17-18, 2015.
Avery Point’s own Professor Paul Hallwood has another book available: Maritime Piracy and its Control.
Book Description from Amazon website
Modern day maritime piracy is a world-wide phenomenon. Over the last ten years, about 3,000 pirate attacks, actual or attempted, have been reported, but with some recent decline due to the effort of naval task forces as well as a very large increase in the use of on-board armed guards. Somali pirates principally operate a capture-to-ransom model, with ransoms of up to $5.5 million per incident being collected. Elsewhere in the world robbery is the main motive. The overall economic cost of maritime piracy in 2012 was estimated at $6 billion.
Maritime Piracy and its Control develops an economic approach to the problem of modern-day maritime piracy with the goal of assessing the effectiveness of remedies aimed at reducing the incidence of piracy. Miceli and Hallwood’s theoretical framework is based on a standard Becker-type model of law enforcement, extended to consider the effort level of pirates to locate and attack target vessels, and of shippers to invest in precautions to avoid contact. The model provides the basis for prescribing an optimal enforcement policy whose goal is to minimize the cost of piracy to international shipping. It also serves as a benchmark for evaluating actual enforcement efforts within the context of international law and concludes with several proposals aimed at improving enforcement.
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About the Author
C. Paul Hallwood received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Aberdeen in 1988, and is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut, USA. Prior to that, he was in the Department of Economics at the University of Aberdeen, UK. He also held the position of Senior Research Economist in the Foreign Ministry of a prominent Arab Government, and has served as a visiting professor at various universities in the USA, Europe, and Australia. His principal research interest is in international economics, having published books and papers in each of its four main fields: international trade, international finance, economics of multinational corporations, and international political economy. A more recent research interest is in the economics of the oceans, on which he has published a textbook and papers on matters such as the law and economics of historic shipwrecks, and the law and economics of maritime piracy. He has also published two books and several paper on the financing of the Scottish government.
Thomas J. Miceli received his PhD in Economics from Brown University, USA, in 1988, and he has been Professor at the University of Connecticut, USA, since 1987. His research is largely in the area of law and economics, with particular emphasis on land use and property law. He is a recognized authority on the economics of eminent domain, a subject on which he has authored or co-authored three books. He has also published undergraduate and graduate level textbooks on law and economics. Currently, he serves as an associate editor for the International Review of Law and Economics. While at UConn, he has taught courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in microeconomic theory, urban economics, public finance, and law and economics, and in 2009, he won the Grillo Family Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Economics Department.
Avery Point Open House on April 28, 2015
New students to Avery Point are invited to campus on Saturday, April 28, 2014.
UConn Maritime Studies internship programs for Summer 2015 available
The UConn Maritime Studies program is pleased to announce two MAST-sponsored competitive internship programs for Summer 2015.
The internship programs are the 1) UConn Maritime Studies-Mystic Seaport Summer Internship and
the 2) UConn Maritime Studies “Tall Ship” Summer Internship.
Applications will be available on the MAST bulletin board in the Academic Building. Please note the March 13, 2015 deadline for each internship program.