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Part 1 – Thinking About Ocean Parks: How, Why, Where
By: Mark J. Spalding, President, The Ocean Foundation WHY MPAs? In the early part of December, I spent two weeks in San Francisco for a pair of meetings on Marine …
Part 2: Reflection on the 30th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
By: Matthew Cannistraro Reagan’s ideological opposition to the treaty hid under a patina of public pragmatism. This approach clouded the terms of the debate over UNCLOS that followed his presidency …
Part 1: Reflection on the 30th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
By: Matthew Cannistraro While I interned at the Ocean Foundation, I worked on a research project about the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNLCOS). Over the …
Marine Advocacy Isn’t Just For The Scientists: A Former Intern’s Perspective
By: Kate Maude For most of my childhood, I dreamt of the ocean. Growing up in a small suburb of Chicago, family trips to the coast only occurred every two …
Arctic Shipping is a Disaster Waiting to Happen
By Richard Steiner When the Malaysian freighter Selendang Ayu grounded in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands eight years ago this week, it was a tragic reminder of the growing risks of northern …
The Underwater Cultural Heritage of World War II
Each year at this time, we take time to remember the attack on Pearl Harbor that shocked the United States into the Pacific theater of World War II. Last month, …
Feel the Ocean Move: The Ocean Foundation’s 2012 Annual Report
By Mark J. Spalding We are all part of a vast, complex, but not infinite, system. The ocean is the core of the Earth’s life support systems that provide us …
There’s More to that Label than Meets the Eye
By Miranda Ossolinski I have to admit that I knew more about research than about ocean conservation issues when I first started interning at The Ocean Foundation during the summer …
The Last Refuge
by Brad Nahill, Director & Co-Founder of SEEtheWILD A wide beach on a warm clear evening may be the most relaxing setting on earth. We weren’t likely to come across …
Deadly Serious: Acid Oceans and What We Must Do
by Mark J. Spalding, President of The Ocean Foundation Last week I was in Monterey, California for the 3rd International Symposium on the Ocean in a High CO2 World, which was …
Ignorance is Not Bliss: New Study on the Status of Unassessed Fish Stocks Underscores Global Threat Posed By Overfishing
by Kenneth Stump, Ocean Policy Fellow at The Ocean Foundation Overfishing (and the use of destructive fishing gear) is often cited as one of the two greatest threats to animals …
A Fish Farming Field Trip to China
by Mark J. Spalding, President of The Ocean Foundation Looking out the hotel window onto Hong Kong Harbor provides a view that spans centuries of international trade and history. From …