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How many records will we break?
“I’ve never seen it like this before.” That is what I have heard over and over as I traveled to different regions in the past couple of weeks—in La Jolla …
Cownose Ray of the Chesapeake Bay
Author: Maggie Bass, with support from Beryl Dann Margaret Bass is a biology major at Eckerd College and is part of the TOF intern community. Two hundred years ago, the …
Shape the Future of Sustainable Seafood
It is with great excitement that we join leaders from around the world in Malta for this year’s SeaWeb Seafood Summit. The 2016 Summit marks the first year of The …
Climate Change is Personal
by Mark J. Spalding, President of The Ocean Foundation Climate change just got personal again. On Tuesday, a set of storm cells formed along much of the East Coast. They …
Letter from the President
A letter from Mark J. Spalding, President of The Ocean Foundation When I stand next to the ocean, I am influenced once again by her magic. I realize …
Seafood Solutions
Mark J. Spalding, President of The Ocean Foundation We conjoined The Ocean Foundation and SeaWeb via an Organizational Partnership Agreement, which became effective on November 17th 2015. The Ocean Foundation …
Oceans Big Think
Oceans Big Think – Launching the Grand Challenges for Ocean Conservation – at Scripps Institution of Oceanography by Mark J. Spalding, President I had just spent a week in Loreto, a coastal …
For the Love of the Gulf
FOR THE LOVE OF THE GULF: TRINATIONAL INITIATIVE HOLDS 7TH MEETING by Mark J. Spalding, President of The Ocean Foundation The Gulf of Mexico is a familiar landmark of North …
Keep Loreto Magical
Greetings from Loreto International Airport where I am waiting to catch my plane back to LAX after a very busy week. It is always nice to be back in …
Looking at the Small Details
The Colorful Blur of October Part 4: Overlooking the Great Pacific, Looking at the Small Details by Mark J. Spalding From Block Island, I headed west across the country to …
A Gem of an Island
The Colorful Blur of October Part 2: A Gem of an Island by Mark J. Spalding Next, I traveled to Block Island, Rhode Island, which is located about 13 nautical miles …
The Sargassum Sum Up
Authors: Jessie Neumann and Luke Elder More and more Sargassum has been washing ashore the pristine beaches of the Caribbean. Why is this happening and what should we do? Sargassum: …
