Ocean Optimism as Youth in Alaska Tackle Marine Debris
Alaska has more coastline than the rest of the United States combined, and our beaches are home to marine mammals, birds and other wildlife. Unfortunately, Alaskan beaches also gather derelict fishing gear and other mari...
Ocean Optimism as Youth in Alaska Tackle Marine Debris
Rusty Chinnis is a founder of and is Chairman Emeritus of Sarasota Bay Watch, a non-profit working to preserve and restore Sarasota Bay’s ecosystem through education and citizen participation. My experiences on the ocean...
Shellfish in Sarasota
Regular readers of this blog know a modest, but important piece of legislation—the Save Our Seas (SOS) Act—has been slowly making its way through the legislative process. Well, I’m happy to share the great news that the...
Save Our Seas Act Signed into Law
This week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a jaw-dropping report that laid bare the choices that we must make to ensure a livable and equitable future in the face of climate change. Make no...
Climate Change and the Ocean: A Stark Message from the IPCC
Chef Tim McKee is the winner of the 2009 James Beard award for Best Chef in the Midwest and currently partners with sustainable seafood wholesaler The Fish Guys Inc., among other ventures. What does sustainable seafood m...
Why Chefs Shouldn’t Be Scared of Sustainable Seafood
When you think of “dumbo,” you might automatically picture the elephant from the classic Disney film famous for his big ears. Yes, that Dumbo is pretty adorable, but what if I told you that deep down in the oce...
A Deep Dive with the Dumbo Octopus
If you thought ocean plastic pollution only affects the ocean once it enters the water…you thought wrong. A studied recently published in the scientific journal Biology Letters announced an alarming new finding: wh...
Microplastics and Mosquitos: What do they have in common?
Palm Beach County officials found traces of Red Tide on their beaches earlier this week, Miami-Dade and Broward Counties will conduct testing on their beaches, and the west coast of Florida is still awash in dead fish. F...
Florida Red Tide Senate Briefing Recap
If you’re a regular reader of our blog, you probably know that I work with an amazing group of driven, talented people who care deeply about the Arctic. In our line of work, we spend most of our time working on complex r...
What is Your Favorite Arctic Animal?
We depend on our ocean for the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe. But beyond these vital resources, there exists a multitude of other reasons why we love the water, from the creatures who call it hom...