Dr Martin Bohle studies societal aspects of Earth Sciences, such as geoethics and the Anthropocene concept. His lifelong passion is the geophysical fluid dynamics of oceans, seas, and lakes, critical to understanding planetary-scale anthropogenic change. Before retiring, Dr Martin Bohle worked as a project and program manager at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (1991-2019). His post-doctoral research at the University of Hamburg focused on coastal seas. He earned a Docteur ès Sciences from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 1986, studying Lake Geneva's dynamics, and a Diploma in Theoretical Oceanography from Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel in 1980.

Earth Science's Narratives, a Landscape of Cultural Controversy

Contemporary societies witness massive rationalization, including bureaucratic and systematic organization, which concurred in the mid-twenty century with the emergence of a planetary technosphere and a hegemonic culture of affluence. In this context, Earth was reduced primarily to a mere material resource.
The Earth science disciplines apply Mario Bunge's concept of a 'synthetic thesis of truth', portraying insights as a combination of prose, abstract concepts, mathematical codification, and cultural embedding. While the knowledge-building processes in Earth Science offer conceptual tales (e.g. of climate change), the audience consists of citizens bound in schemes of efficiency, control, productivity, and power differentials, conflicts between values favouring economic growth or rational-affective choices, and the struggle for biological and social reproduction. Given such narrative-audience relations, this project explores (scientific) notions, tales, and controversies to examine Earth Science's perceptions of human conditions in societies encountering planetary-scale anthropogenic change. 
The project's analytical framework combines H. Arendt's, M. Bunge's, J. Renn's, and N. Wallenhorst's concepts, i.e. of 'human condition', 'synthetic thesis of truth', 'economy of knowledge' and 'rupture'. The underpinning theory of complex-adaptive socio-ecological systems is pivotal for understanding materiality and processes. The project draws on a vast natural and social sciences and humanities literature corpus.

 For details, see: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/386146450_Earth_Science's_Narratives_a_Landscape_of_Cultural_Controversy

• Bohle M. (2023). Crafting Attributes of a Geological Now. Earth Sci. Syst. Soc. 3, 1–13. doi:10.3389/esss.2023.10089.
• Bohle M. (2023). Narratives. In: Handbook of the Anthropocene 445–449, Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-25910-4_69.
• Bohle M., Marone E. (2022). Phronesis at the Human-Earth Nexus: Managed Retreat". Frontiers in Political Science. doi:10.3389/fpos.2022.819930.
• Bohle M., Marone E. (2021). Geo-societal Narratives - Contextualising Geosciences. Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-79028-8.
• Bohle M. (2020). Geo-Societal Sense-Making. In: Geoethics: Status and Future Perspectives, Geol. Soc. London. doi:10.1144/SP508-2019-213.
• Bohle M., Preiser R., Di Capua G., Peppoloni S., Marone E. (2019). Exploring Geoethics - Ethical Implications, Societal Contexts, and Professional Obligations of the Geosciences. Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-12010-8.
• Bohle M., Sibilla A., Casals I Graells R. (2017). A Concept of Society-Earth-Centric Narratives. Ann Geophys 60. doi:10.4401/ag-7358
• Bohle M. (2015). Simple geoethics: an essay on daily Earth science. Geoethics: the Role and Responsibility of Geoscientists, Geol. Soc. London, 5–12. doi:10.1144/SP419.3.
• Bohle M. (2014). Recording the Onset of the Anthropocene. In: Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 7, 161–163. Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-09303-1_31.
• Bohle-Carbonell M. (1994). On the Reliability of Our North Sea Assessment. In Circulation and Contaminant Fluxes in the North Sea, 620–38. Berlin: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-78294-7_19.
• Bohle-Carbonell M. (1991). Wind and Currents: Response Patterns of Lake Genera. Annales Geophysicae. 9, 82-90. www.researchgate.net/publication/235972860
• Bohle M., Perrinjaquet C. (1984). Methods of Mooring of Instruments for Monitoring of the Lake of Geneva. Ingenieurs et Architectes Suisses 110, 46-49. 

Name 1984 – 2007: Martin Bohle-Carbonell