Conserving Marine Habitats and Special Places
Cuba and Puerto Rico:
As the inaugural effort of Conservación ConCiencia, a historic fishing exchange between Puerto Rican and Cuban commercial fishers, entrepreneurs and government officials was held last November 2016. Conservación ConCiencia led …
Keep Action Afloat
We know what is at stake. Over 50 square miles of estuarine biodiversity buoyed with patriotic heritage unlike anything else in the world. Mallows Bay, home to hundreds of sunken …
Costa Rica BBNJ Workshop
I spent the 8th and 9th of March in Puntarenas, Costa Rica for a Central American workshop to develop capacity for foreign ministries engaged in responding to the UN General …
Saving a Special Place on the Potomac
History can only repeat itself if a structure exists to frame and support its stories. Along the Chesapeake, in the narrow Nanjemoy Peninsula, the decaying 18th Century steamships of Mallows …
Remember the River’s Remains
This is part one of a three-part series on the urgency for safeguarding Mallows Bay. Staying afloat amidst changing tides is more crucial now that it was 90 years ago …
Go Big or Go Home
International agreements value efforts to protect the health and wellbeing of all life on earth—from human rights to endangered species—the nations of the world have come together to figure out …
An Oasis of Science
On the edge of a far-flung lagoon in Baja California Sur, surrounded by a landscape of low-lying succulents, expansive salt flats, and towering cardón cacti that appear on the horizon …
Keeping Loreto Magical
Established more than 300 years ago, the municipality of Loreto sits between the foothills of the Sierra La Giganta Mountains and the shores of the Loreto Bay National Marine Park …
Protecting the Seen and the Unseen: The Sargasso Sea
Author: Mark J. Spalding The recent issue of New Scientist cited “eels spawning” as one of the 11 things we know exist, but have never actually seen. It’s true—the origins …
Keep Loreto Magical
Greetings from Loreto International Airport where I am waiting to catch my plane back to LAX after a very busy week. It is always nice to be back in …
The Science and Politics of Ocean Protection
Making waves: The science and politics of ocean protection Kirsten Grorud-Colvert and Jane Lubchenco, TOF Advisor and former NOAA Administrator Huge accomplishments have been made in the past decade for ocean protection, yet with only …
Heroes of the Caribbean: Jamaica
by Mark J. Spalding, President of the Ocean Foundation On many of my trips I seem to spend more time with interesting people in windowless conference rooms than by the …
