Papers by Lif Lund Jacobsen
Centaurus, May 1, 2021
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MARE publication series, 2014
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Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Dec 1, 2020
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Seismological Research Letters, Jan 12, 2022
The paper seismograms from 100 years of observations in Denmark and Greenland has since October 2... more The paper seismograms from 100 years of observations in Denmark and Greenland has since October 2021 been made available through the Danish National Archives. Five case stories illustrate the quality and variation of the seismograms, and the historical context of operation of the stations. (1) The earliest recorded earthquake in the archive is recorded at GDH station in Greenland, where the 1907 Mw 7.2 earthquake in Tajikistan is recorded on smoked paper. (2) The first Danish earthquake is a local event close to Copenhagen in 1930. (3) We have illustrated the 50 megaton nuclear explosion in Novaya Zemlya in 1961—the largest nuclear test explosion ever. (4) The M 9.2 earthquake in Alaska in 1964 recorded on several instruments at COP. (5) A local earthquake in northeast Greenland recorded both on paper on World-Wide Standard Seismographic Network instruments and digitally on a modern broadband instrument.
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Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks, 2016
Anne Lif Lund Jacobsen explores the role of seismic stations in Greenland as critical to US effor... more Anne Lif Lund Jacobsen explores the role of seismic stations in Greenland as critical to US efforts to detect atomic bomb explosions over long distances. She argues that American military agencies sought to gain access to knowledge and localities in Greenland by engaging Danish seismologists in research projects and scholarly cooperation with US scientific institutions. Jacobsen points out that as Denmark’s disarmament policy increasingly influenced seismic research activities, the relationship between Danish and American agencies became more complex and politically charged. Drawing upon the private letters of Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann, and archival documents from the USA and Denmark, this chapter explores how Danish seismic science was influenced by Cold War geopolitics.
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Science and Public Policy
The early 1970s brought fundamental transitions in international scientific collaboration that si... more The early 1970s brought fundamental transitions in international scientific collaboration that significantly affected the international relations in global patterns that are still relevant today. This article uses a multi-perspective approach to argue that the underlying condition for the globalization of science diplomacy was the increasing participation of recently independent countries in international technoscientific affairs, examining critical research areas, including space exploration, oceanography, nuclear technoscience, the environmental sciences, and health and population studies. Themes emerged at that time that continue to characterize what we term ‘Global Science Diplomacy’: multipolarity, resistance and agency, lack of global consensus, regional alliances and interests, and the centrality of the United Nations system to the conduct of transnational science. This survey is a first step in historical reflection on this phenomenon and shows that it was the emergence of t...
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Centaurus, 2021
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IASPEI Newsletter, Jun 1, 2017
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Seismological Research Letters, 2022
The paper seismograms from 100 years of observations in Denmark and Greenland has since October 2... more The paper seismograms from 100 years of observations in Denmark and Greenland has since October 2021 been made available through the Danish National Archives. Five case stories illustrate the quality and variation of the seismograms, and the historical context of operation of the stations. (1) The earliest recorded earthquake in the archive is recorded at GDH station in Greenland, where the 1907 Mw 7.2 earthquake in Tajikistan is recorded on smoked paper. (2) The first Danish earthquake is a local event close to Copenhagen in 1930. (3) We have illustrated the 50 megaton nuclear explosion in Novaya Zemlya in 1961—the largest nuclear test explosion ever. (4) The M 9.2 earthquake in Alaska in 1964 recorded on several instruments at COP. (5) A local earthquake in northeast Greenland recorded both on paper on World-Wide Standard Seismographic Network instruments and digitally on a modern broadband instrument.
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Centaurus, 2021
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American Journal of Archaeology, 2006
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Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2020
Science Diplomacy is a vibrant research field: this is illustrated by the growing number of schol... more Science Diplomacy is a vibrant research field: this is illustrated by the growing number of scholars who are exploring the field both by studying contemporary issues and reevaluating past conflicts and political negotiations. Coming not only from the ranks of historians, scholars from international relations, Science and Technology Studies, and science management, to name a few, are exploring the history of science and diplomacy. Nevertheless, much is yet to be understood with respect to science and diplomacy’s historical dimensions and the ways in which science and technology have become increasingly important devices in the administration of foreign affairs since the beginning of the Cold War. Founded in 2018, the Commission on the History of Science, Technology and Diplomacy organized its first conference from 19–20 July 2019 at the Niels Bohr Archive in Copenhagen. The conference brought together researchers from several countries and various fields who explored the diverse history of science diplomacy as an endeavor, focusing especially on the actors involved. The papers presented at the conference described and analyzed how particular diplomats, scientists, and institutions used techno-scientific knowledge in their diplomatic efforts. This special issue bears the same title as the DHST conference and includes six of the papers presented in Copenhagen. As a diplomatic activity, science diplomacy refers to the practice of using science and technology in diplomacy to foster dialogue and cooperation between na-
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International Journal of Maritime History, 2020
In 1914, the New South Wales (NSW) Government decided to alter its fisheries policy, with the dev... more In 1914, the New South Wales (NSW) Government decided to alter its fisheries policy, with the development of an offshore trawling industry supplanting support for inshore fishing as its key development objective. Accordingly, between 1915 and 1923 the NSW Government operated a commercial trawling industry designed to fish previously unexploited fish stocks on the state’s continental shelf. The State Trawling Industry (STI) was designed to meet a mix of social and economic policy goals, with the NSW Government controlling all parts of the production line from catching to selling produce. This article examines the business structure of the enterprise to reveal the reasons for its economic failure. It argues that government entrepreneurship created a new consumer market and unintentionally paved the way for the rise of a modern private trawling industry.
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