ISER Lunchtime Talk: 'The Law of the Sea and Extending U.S. Resource Rights in the Arctic and Other Oceans,' Nov. 14

Thursday, Nov. 14, 12-1 p.m. Diplomacy Building, Fifth Floor, Conference Room

Two times the size of California: that's the approximate scope of the offshore area where the United States is determining the extent of its rights, under international law, over the resources of the continental shelf. For some ten years, the United States has been mapping the continental shelf in all of its marine regions-from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, and in the Pacific and Arctic oceans.

Betsy Baker, a professor at Vermont Law School, has sailed with two of the Arctic mapping cruises on the USCGC Healy, and recently completed ten months in the Office of Ocean and Polar Affairs, at the U.S. State Department, preparing documentation to help establish the extent of U.S. continental shelf rights under international law. Please join us at ISER to hear her talk about that process and the practical implications for Alaska's Arctic, as well as developments in the Gulf of Mexico. Baker is currently in Alaska on research leave.

The Diplomacy Building is at 4500 Diplomacy Drive, at the corner of Tudor Road and Tudor Centre Drive. Parking is free. Call (907) 786-7710 if you need directions.

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