Research and Development
Building a Blue Print for Coastal Community Conservation
Imagine … a cadre of youth educated and dedicated to protecting and nurturing their environment and sharing that knowledge with family and friends … Imagine … a group of …
Keep Your Friends Close, And Your Anemones Closer
I grew up in Mauritius, an island off the east coast of Madagascar, with the ocean as my playground. I did not know I wanted it to also be my …
The Ocean Giveth and the Ocean Taketh Away…
By Wendy Williams The ocean giveth, and the ocean taketh away… And somehow, over the ages, it has all fit together, most of the time. But just exactly how does …
The Fight Against Ocean Litter
By Emily Franc, Research Associate, The Ocean Foundation Marine debris comes in many forms, from a cigarette butt to a 4,000-pound derelict fishing net. No one enjoys looking at a …
Glowing in the Dark
By Mark J. Spalding, President, The Ocean Foundation This blog originally appeared on National Geographic’s Ocean Views Site “Radioactive Plume in the ocean” is the kind of headline that ensures …
Deep Sea Mining – The Pacific Experiment
Canadian mining company Nautilus Minerals Inc. has staked its reputation on bringing off the world’s first deep sea mining (DSM) operation. The Bismarck Sea in Papua New Guinea has been …
A Day in the Delta
By Mark J. Spalding, President, The Ocean Foundation A version of this blog originally appeared in National Geographic’s Ocean Views. One recent Monday, I got to spend the day doing …
Another Mystery at the Ocean’s Depths: Seabed Mining
By: Carla O. García Zendejas I am flying at an altitude of 39,000 ft. while thinking of the ocean’s depths, those dark places some of us first saw in rare …
Part 2 – Thinking About Ocean Parks: How, Why, Where
By: Mark J. Spalding, President, The Ocean Foundation AVOIDING THE PAPER PARK: HOW CAN WE HELP MPAs SUCCEED? As I mentioned in Part 1 of this blog about ocean parks, I attended …
Part 1 – Thinking About Ocean Parks: How, Why, Where
By: Mark J. Spalding, President, The Ocean Foundation WHY MPAs? In the early part of December, I spent two weeks in San Francisco for a pair of meetings on Marine …
Part 2: Reflection on the 30th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
By: Matthew Cannistraro Reagan’s ideological opposition to the treaty hid under a patina of public pragmatism. This approach clouded the terms of the debate over UNCLOS that followed his presidency …
Part 1: Reflection on the 30th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
By: Matthew Cannistraro While I interned at the Ocean Foundation, I worked on a research project about the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNLCOS). Over the …
