Ocean Science Equity
TOF Wins First Place in Science Category
Robey Naish Presented the award to the representative of the Ocean Foundation, Alexis Valauri-Orton. (from left), Copyright: ctillmann / Messe Düsseldorf Together with the Prince Albert II of the Monaco …
SPREP Partners with TOF
PRESS BRIEFING 6Oct17 15:45, Malta at the Our Ocean conference 2017 Today, The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and The Ocean Foundation (TOF) are signing an MOU …
In It for the Long Game
Like most of my colleagues at The Ocean Foundation, I’m always thinking about the long game. What future are we working to achieve? How can what we do now lay the …
Arctic Ocean Acidification Workshop
In September 2016, the biggest cruise ship to ever make the Northwest Passage through the Arctic reached New York safely after 32 days, millions of dollars in preparations, and a …
Ocean Acidification Monitoring Public-Private Partnership Launched in Southern Africa
Media Note Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC July 25, 2016 The U.S. Department of State has partnered with The Ocean Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, Schmidt Marine Technology Partners, …
Scaling Positive Impact
The Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOAON) with approximate locations for ‘ApHRICA’, a pilot project to deploy ocean pH sensors in South Africa, Mozambique, the Seychelles, and Mauritius for the …
Creating the Network to Forecast Ocean Acidification
Following the Ocean in a High CO2 World conference in Tasmania at the very beginning of May, we held the third science workshop for the Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network …
The Ocean is Suffering from Hypercapnia
I spent the beginning of May in Van Diemen’s Land, a penal colony established by Great Britain in 1803. Today, it is known as Tasmania, one of the six original …
Science + Industry Collaboration Keeps Hong Kong Oyster Industry Alive
by Alexis Valauri-Orton, Program Associate In the streets of Lau Fau Shan, a small community in the Northwest tip of Hong Kong’s New Territories, the air smells sweet and salty. …
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 …
Ocean Acidification: The Crisis Upon Us
TOF President, Mark Spalding, writes of the widespread and universal dangers we face today from ocean acidification and the steps that need to be taken to prevent and prepare. “Carbon dioxide pollution …
Translating urgency into technology
By Mark J. Spalding, President, The Ocean Foundation On 25 September 2014 I attended a Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health X-Prize event at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in …
