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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 …
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. …
Rock, Paper, Turtles: Expanding Turtle Education in El Salvador
By Brad Nahill, Director & Co-Founder of SEEtheWILD and SEE Turtles Working with Local Teachers to Expand Sea Turtle Education Programs in El Salvador Only a few hundred female hawksbills …
The Wind, The Sea and The Sky
You can’t avoid the ocean in San Francisco. It is what makes it such an amazing place. The ocean is there on three sides of the city—from the Pacific Ocean …
Tin for Ten
Did you know that a 10th wedding anniversary was traditionally celebrated with a gift of tin or aluminum? Today, that gift isn’t considered the trendy way to celebrate such an …
A day in the life of a Race for the Baltic’er
Guest Post by Barbara Jackson, Campaign Director, Race for the Baltic Race for the Baltic will work to bring together all the stakeholders affected by the degradation of the Baltic …
The Past Speaks to the Future: Sustainable Ancient Aquaculture
By: Mark J. Spalding, Kathryn Peyton and Ashley Milton This blog originally appeared on National Geographic’s Ocean Views Phrases like “lessons from the past” or “learning from ancient history” are …
Surviving 500 Million Years and Disappearing in the Blink of an Eye: The Story of the Chambered Nautilus
By: Gregory Jeff Barord, PhD Student, City University of New York – Graduate Center, City University of New York – Brooklyn College Day 1: We’ve finally landed in the Philippines …
CHOW 2013 Summary
Below are written summaries for each of the panels held during CHOW 2013 this year. Written by our summer interns: Caroline Coogan, Scot Hoke, Subin Nepal and Paula Senff Summary …
Ocean-Related Impacts of Climate Change on Human and National Security
By Robin Peach, Executive Director of the Collaborative Institute for Oceans, Climate and Security at the McCormack Graduate School at UMass Boston This blog can be found on the Boston …