Stories
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 …
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 …