Water flows through all I write, all I study, and all I believe. My thirty years of wine tasting and writing began in Paris, as Editor and Publishing Director of Vintage Magazine and eventually led me to the bigger story of Climate Change, work that became Wine and Climate Change (2014), the first book on the subject, and later the founding of The Wine and Climate Change Institute (Oxford) in 2016. From there, my research widened to embrace sustainable viticulture, soil health, and freshwater management. I was proud to contribute to the United Nations’ Encyclopedia of the Sustainable Development Goals with a chapter paper on the non-viability of freshwater irrigation in viticulture. At the same time, my close Saami ancestry deepened my commitment to Indigenous Knowledge Systems, which I apply to my climate change research. Most recently, completing a master’s in Coastal and Maritime Societies and Cultures (UHI) sparked my current PhD in Northern Studies, where I focus on the Indigenous peoples of the Circumpolar North, Scotland’s Orkney and Shetland Islands, and the geopolitics of the Arctic. From vineyards to northern seas, water is the element that connects my research, my writing, and my cosmology.
