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When Life Gives You Lemons…
When Life Gives You Lemons, Assess Their Mating Characteristics, Growth, and Survival Alex Aines, Shark Researcher and TOF Intern At the beginning of April I arrived at Bimini Biological Field Station in …
Fundación Tropicalia and Sustainable Development
Fundación Tropicalia Leading The Way In Sustainable Resort Developments Mark J. Spalding, President of The Ocean Foundation For the past two years, we have partnered with the Fundación Tropicalia, which …
Churning Seas: Blue Vision Summit 5
By Ben Scheelk, Program Associate There is an old bit of weather lore that states: Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in the morning, sailor’s warning. Fortunately, for …
Heroes of the Caribbean: Jamaica
by Mark J. Spalding, President of the Ocean Foundation On many of my trips I seem to spend more time with interesting people in windowless conference rooms than by the …
Blue Mind Summit
by Jessie Neumann, TOF Marketing Intern I had the distinct pleasure of attending the 5th annual Blue Mind Summit this past Monday, coordinated by Wallace J. Nichols, our TOF project manager …
3 Keys to Saving Tobacco Caye
by Michael Bourie, TOF Intern After spending last Christmas bundled up inside avoiding the snow, I decided to spend this past winter season in the Caribbean taking a tropical marine ecology …
Ocean Sustainability and Global Resource Management
Mark J. Spalding, President of The Ocean Foundation Last month I went to the port city of Kiel, which is the capital of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. I was …
Save the Vaquita
Efforts taken to date by Mexico, the United States, and the global community have been helpful, but have not been sufficient to save the vaquita from extinction. Conserving the species …
Vaquita To Go Extinct for Consumer Interests
On February 2nd, we at The Ocean Foundation posted a blog about status of the efforts to protect the endangered Vaquita porpoise in the Upper Gulf of California in Mexico. In …
SeaWeb Sustainable Seafood Conference
SeaWeb Sustainable Seafood Conference – New Orleans 2015 by Mark J. Spalding, President As you may have noticed from other posts, last week I was in New Orleans attending the …
Lionfish Cook-off Challenge
As part of the three day Sustainable Seafood Summit, SeaWeb and The National Marine Sanctuary Foundation (NMSF) hosted the cook-off, “Lionfish Challenge – Malicious but Delicious!” The event – emceed …
Behavioral Change for the Ocean
By Mark J. Spalding, President We know that we want to improve people’s relationship with the ocean. We want to steer a course towards a world in which we value …