Stories
Cleaner Air, Cleaner Ocean
The benefits to the ocean of pollution prevention are incalculable—just like our benefits from the ocean.
Announcing the 2020 Boyd Lyon Scholar
Every year the Boyd Lyon Sea Turtle Fund hosts a scholarship for a marine biology student whose research is focused on sea turtles. This year’s winner is Alexandra Fireman!
Create Solutions
I’m oftentimes told by friends, that they feel impotent in the face of such overwhelming problems with the sea and the environment. That their personal small steps, i.e., don’t use …
Winter Surf
I wriggle quickly into my wetsuit, cold air saps the warmth from my body. I pull on booties, lower the wetsuit bottoms over my now neoprene covered feet, add wax to my longboard, and sit to analyze the swell.
Measuring Ocean Acidification in Panama
In a world destined for climate change, if you aren’t monitoring it, you won’t know the train is coming until it hits you…
The Disruption of the Ocean by Climate Change
The ocean hums with life in an interconnected web, from the tiniest sea butterflies to the great blue whales. Each whale plays a role in the delicate ecological balance of …
Key Takeaways of the Latest IPCC Report
On September 25, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its “Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate” (the Ocean and Ice Report) to report on …
Is There Hope? My Capitol Hill Ocean Week Experience
Throughout my journey in exploring and planning my future in the marine conservation field, I have always struggled with the question of “Is there any hope?”. I always tell my …
TOF calls for National Academies to Explore Redesigning Plastics
As part of The Ocean Foundation’s Redesigning Plastics Initiative, on 15 July 2019, we requested a scoping meeting from the key boards of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and …
Africa Blue Economy Forum
Every time I am invited to speak, I have the opportunity to revisit my thinking about an aspect of improving the human relationship with the ocean. Likewise, as I confer …
The Vaquita
I have been afraid of this day for a long time, the “lessons learned” postmortem panel: “Conservation, controversy and courage in the Upper Gulf of California: fighting the vaquita vortex” …
Effectively Developing Marine Protected Areas
10th Monaco Blue Initiative Oceanographic Museum of Monaco 25 March 2019 Session #1 How can we – collectively – continue developing MPAs whilst ensuring their efficiency? Remarks by Mark J. …
