Stories
From Lisbon to Leyte
By Mark J. Spalding, President, The Ocean Foundation History majors such as me are often asked how we wound up working on ocean governance and conservation. Sitting here in the …
A Struggle To Capture Whale Footage
By Chris Palmer, TOF Advisory Board Member We only had two days left and the weather was closing in and getting stormy. We hadn’t gotten the footage we needed yet …
Sea Turtles of the Yucatan Peninsula
By Brad Nahill, Co-founder and Director of SEEtheWild.org “We may have to walk a ways to see a sea turtle,” I told my daughter Karina as we stood on X’cacel …
What do the Grand Canyon and New York City have in common?
By Caroline Coogan, Research Intern, The Ocean Foundation Each time I travel to New York I am struck – and often overwhelmed – by the towering buildings and bustling life. …
Building a Blue Print for Coastal Community Conservation
Imagine … a cadre of youth educated and dedicated to protecting and nurturing their environment and sharing that knowledge with family and friends … Imagine … a group of …
Keep Your Friends Close, And Your Anemones Closer
I grew up in Mauritius, an island off the east coast of Madagascar, with the ocean as my playground. I did not know I wanted it to also be my …
The Ocean Giveth and the Ocean Taketh Away…
By Wendy Williams The ocean giveth, and the ocean taketh away… And somehow, over the ages, it has all fit together, most of the time. But just exactly how does …
Gone Wild in Salamanca
By: Mark J. Spalding (The Ocean Foundation) and Shari Sant Plummer (Code Blue Foundation) A version of this blog originally appeared on National Geographic’s Ocean Views. We are writing after spending hectic …
The Georgia Strait Alliance: Friend of the Ocean
By Ben Scheelk, Program Associate, The Ocean Foundation Silence. The pure, unadulterated, deafening silence that makes one feel as if you are in a vacuum. That is my lasting impression …
What Do Drones Have to Do with Sea Turtles?
By Carla García Zendejas On September 15th while most Mexican’s began celebrating our Independence Day some were absorbed by another major event; the shrimping season began on Mexico’s Pacific Coast. …
