Stories
Deep Sea Mining – The Pacific Experiment
Canadian mining company Nautilus Minerals Inc. has staked its reputation on bringing off the world’s first deep sea mining (DSM) operation. The Bismarck Sea in Papua New Guinea has been …
A Day in the Delta
By Mark J. Spalding, President, The Ocean Foundation A version of this blog originally appeared in National Geographic’s Ocean Views. One recent Monday, I got to spend the day doing …
In Honor of Mother’s Day
By Mark J. Spalding, President, The Ocean Foundation On a recent trip to Maine, I had the opportunity to visit two exhibits at Bowdoin College’s Peary-McMillan Arctic museum. One was …
After the Storm: What Next?
By Mark J. Spalding, President The Ocean Foundation A version of this blog originally appeared on National Geographic’s Ocean Views One recent weekend, I drove north from Washington with some …
Water On My Mind
By: Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, co-founder of SEE Turtles, SEEtheWILD, & LiVBLUE among other organizations. This blog originally appeared on Mission Blue. Take a stroll through your favorite bookstore. Notice that lining the shelves in the …
Catch Shares: Not the Silver Bullet They Hoped For
In pursuit of our goals to increase ocean health while protecting fishing communities, The Ocean Foundation has worked long and hard with our fellow marine conservation philanthropists to fund a …
Gray Whales Saved Off Baja California
By Mark J. Spalding, President, The Ocean Foundation This blog originally appeared on National Geographic’s Oceans Views. It’s gray whale migration season on the west coast of North America. Gray …
Unabashed, Hardshell Turtle Love
By: Kama Dean, TOF Program Officer Over the past few decades, a movement has been growing; a movement to understand, recover and protect the world’s sea turtles. This past month, …
WHMSI: Being Good Neighbors to Support Migratory Animals
By: Mark J. Spalding, President I had the great good fortune to spend the early part of this week at a special meeting with our partners at the international division …
Another Mystery at the Ocean’s Depths: Seabed Mining
By: Carla O. García Zendejas I am flying at an altitude of 39,000 ft. while thinking of the ocean’s depths, those dark places some of us first saw in rare …
Part 2 – Thinking About Ocean Parks: How, Why, Where
By: Mark J. Spalding, President, The Ocean Foundation AVOIDING THE PAPER PARK: HOW CAN WE HELP MPAs SUCCEED? As I mentioned in Part 1 of this blog about ocean parks, I attended …
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 …
