Coasts and Beaches
The Ocean Foundation and University of Havana’s Marine Research Center: 21 Years of Science, Discovery, and Friendship
This week The Ocean Foundation attended the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the University of Havana’s Centro de Investigaciones Marinas where TOF was recognized for its 21 years of collaboration with CIM on marine science in Cuba.
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: …
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 …
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 …
JetBlue & TOF Begin to Quantify the Value of Conservation
JetBlue, The Ocean Foundation and A.T. Kearney Begin to Quantify the Value of Shoreline Conservation, Highlighting the Connection Between Healthy Ecosystems and Increased Revenue “EcoEarnings: A Shore Thing” Marks the …
BioCarbon: What is it and why do we care?
By, Mark J. Spalding, President, The Ocean Foundation This week I had the great good fortune to join about two dozen of our colleagues in Seattle for a briefing about …
“King Tides:” The wave of the future?
By Mark J. Spalding, President, The Ocean Foundation Raise your hand if you have heard the term “king tide.” Raise your hand if the term sends you rushing to the …
TOF funded report finds site of mega-development project in Mexico is a biodiversity hotspot
Scientists at the University of California, Riverside have published a report on the terrestrial biodiversity of the Cabo Pulmo region that shows the project is situated in an area of …
Feds Propose Doubling Size of Protected Areas Off North Coast
Permanent protection from oil drilling off the Sonoma and southern Mendocino County coast appears imminent, anti-drilling advocates and local officials said Monday, as a federal agency unveiled a plan to …
Stop the Trash
By Mark J. Spalding, President, The Ocean Foundation This blog originally appeared on NatGeo’s Ocean Views We once believed that the ocean was too big to fail, that we could …
