Bradford Seminar: “Blue Tech and the Rush to Mine the Seafloor”
Allison Carruth, professor in the Effron Center for the Study of America and the High Meadows Environmental Institute, will present “Blue Tech and the Rush to Mine the Seafloor.” This seminar will be held in-person (PUID holders only) and available via livestream (open to all).
Carruth is a professor in the Effron Center for the Study of America and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton, where she directs the Program in Environmental Studies. She is the co-founder and faculty director of Blue Lab and was the founding director of UCLA’s Lab for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS). Her fields of research and teaching encompass the environmental humanities, ecomedia and science and technology studies. Over the past fifteen years, her scholarship and creative practice have aimed to bridge the work of environmental imagination and that of the natural sciences. She is the author of three books, most recently Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech (U Chicago 2025). She is currently at work on a new book provisionally titled The Ocean Remade.
The image of a polymetalic field sea floor.
This event is part of the David Bradford Energy and Environmental Policy Seminar Series organized by the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-PREE) in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and co-sponsored by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI).
Bradford Seminar: “Blue Tech and the Rush to Mine the Seafloor”
Event Date
Mon, Feb 16, 2026 ・ 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Location
300 Wallace Hall; Online via Media Central Live
Allison Carruth, professor in the Effron Center for the Study of America and the High Meadows Environmental Institute, will present “Blue Tech and the Rush to Mine the Seafloor.” This seminar will be held in-person (PUID holders only) and available via livestream (open to all).
Carruth is a professor in the Effron Center for the Study of America and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton, where she directs the Program in Environmental Studies. She is the co-founder and faculty director of Blue Lab and was the founding director of UCLA’s Lab for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS). Her fields of research and teaching encompass the environmental humanities, ecomedia and science and technology studies. Over the past fifteen years, her scholarship and creative practice have aimed to bridge the work of environmental imagination and that of the natural sciences. She is the author of three books, most recently Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech (U Chicago 2025). She is currently at work on a new book provisionally titled The Ocean Remade.
The image of a polymetalic field sea floor.
This event is part of the David Bradford Energy and Environmental Policy Seminar Series organized by the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-PREE) in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and co-sponsored by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI).
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The image of a polymetalic field sea floor.
