RUSSELL FIELDING geographer
MEDIA
Teaching Videos
The Tragedy of the Commons, or the Quest for Just Desserts (2023)
Coriolis Effect Demonstration on a Merry-go-round (2013)
Video-recorded Lectures
"'The Sustainability Stones': or, How Traditional Food Pairings Can Save the Marine Environment in French Polynesia"
Oxford Food Symposium (July 2025)
American Names Society (February 2025)
"The Culture and Tradition of ‘Blackfish’ Whaling in St. Vincent and the Grenadines” (with Vincent Reid, George "Tall Twelve" Frederick, and Dan Lanier) Festival de Navegación Tradicional del Caribe Insular (September 10, 2021)
"Three Atlantic Whaling Cultures" (with Christian Barrientos, Niko Darby, and Hannah-Marie Garcia)
Cetacean Sessions (April 29, 2021)
"The Problem of Indifference and Perceptions of Whaling Cultures"
TEDx-Nashville (September 17, 2020)
"History of Whaling in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean"
Barbados Museum & Historical Society (January 23, 2020)
"The Wake of the Whale: Hunter Societies in the Caribbean and North Atlantic"
Dalhousie University: Environment, Sustainability, & Society Lecture Series (November 1, 2018)
"The Wake of the Whale: Hunter Societies in the Caribbean and North Atlantic"
Nantucket Historical Association (October 20, 2018)
"Winning over the Whalers: Initiating Community Based Research in Shy Societies"
International Polar Year Early Career Research Symposium (December 8, 2009)
Quotes, Interviews, and Media Coverage
Black Cat Radio, 2024
"Breadfruit is Here to Save the World"
Wired, 2024
"The Ultimate Guide to Growing Breadfruit Trees"
Tropical Tree Guide, 2024
"Too Few Americans Are Eating a Remarkable Fruit"
The Atlantic, 2024
"Report: Rising slaughter of small whales and dolphins threatens ocean balance"
Mongabay, 2024
"Shifting tides: The changing face of the North Atlantic’s whaling war"
In Motion, 2023
"Professor Russell Fielding Conducts Global Research on Breadfruit"
Coastal Carolina University, 2023
Coastal Now, Coastal Carolina University, 2022
"The Carolina-Barbados Connection that Shaped Carolina"
Walter Edgar's Journal, South Carolina Public Radio, 2020
CHILL News, 2020
"Bid to get ‘aquatic wild meat’ off the menu and under protection"
MongaBay, 2020
"The Effect of Japan Resuming Commercial Whaling"
CGTN America, 2019
"Eating Blubber and Reserving Judgement"
Times Higher Education, 2019
Times Higher Education, 2019
"Delfines del mar Caribe con altos niveles de mercurio"
SciDev.net, 2015
"Hunted orcas spotlight Caribbean whaling"
MongaBay, 2015
"Faroe Island Whaling: a 1000-year tradition comes under fire"
National Geographic, 2014
The Faroe Islands Podcast, 2009