Stories
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 …
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 …
