Abstract
My grandfather played an instrumental part in shaping my perception of the world as a child, and his playful but serious potato farming inspired me to become a scientist. The world I live in, as a person born in 1973, is radically different from what it was when my grandfather started his life, in 1912. Humanity has entered the Anthropocene—where our collective activities influence the dynamics of the entire planet, its climate, and ecosystems. I describe my background in seabird behavioral ecology and marine biology, in the Pacific Ocean and Baltic Sea. I start to focus on the global sustainability challenges, inspired by Professor Jane Lubchenco, who argues for a new social contract for science, and by Carl Folke, a fun and possibly mad professor who started a new sustainability science center in 2006, with an aim to change the world.
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