How Can You Make a Difference for Our Ocean?
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito in the room” – the Dalai Lama Among the countless inspirations with which the Dalai Lama has enriched the world, this quote lives on my d...
How Can You Make a Difference for Our Ocean?
There are few systems more complex—and more beautiful—than our natural ecosystems. Each element is like a Jenga piece—together, the pieces fit together perfectly, but when your tower begins to wobble, it can be hard to d...
NOAA Awards $3.5 Million to Research Impact of Acidification on Complex Ecosystems
The end of September does not just mark the end of summer—it is also the end of the federal fiscal year. Monday, October 1 is the first day of Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19), and for the ocean, that usually means new budgets fo...
The More You NOAA: Ocean Budget Keeps Flowing for Now
How do you take a marine population that’s doing well and make sure it can continue to thrive in a warming, acidifying future? That’s the question my colleagues and I asked ourselves as we began our study of the U.S. Atl...
Scallops Need More Than Great Management to Weather Future Ocean Change
Alaska just announced a big step forward in leading the way to addressing the causes and effects of climate change. In Anchorage this week, the Climate Action for Alaska Leadership Team delivered its recommended Alaska C...
North to the Future: Alaska’s Climate Action Leadership
Following the D.C. government’s weather advisories ahead of Hurricane Florence earlier this month, Ocean Conservancy postponed our flagship International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) event to October. It’s hard to describe how...
How We’re Fighting Ocean Plastic Beyond the International Coastal Cleanup
Summer is usually a quiet time of year in Washington, but it has been a busy three months for ocean planning and policy work since the Trump Administration released its ocean policy executive order back in June. Here are...
A Summer Review of President Trump’s Ocean Policy
Happy National Sea Otter Awareness Week! What better way to celebrate these slippery sea weasels than by basking in their adorableness and learning some fun facts about our furry friends! Awww, hugs from mom! Baby sea ot...
10 Pictures of Sea Otters to Brighten Your Day
“Ocean! Climate! Action!” Scores of ocean and climate leaders chanted in unison with Dr. Jane Lubchenco (former NOAA Administrator and renowned ocean scientist) at Governor Jerry Brown’s Global Climate Action Summit las...
Our Ocean and Climate Change
By now you’ve probably heard about ocean acidification’s effects on oysters, clams and corals. But you might not know that acidification could affect entire food aquatic webs. In estuaries, where oceans and r...