My Favorite Facts About Leatherbacks
Each year, October 15 is designated as Pacific Leatherback Conservation Day. It presents the perfect opportunity to celebrate this large, one-of-a-kind sea turtle—and I can’t wait to share some of my favorite leatherbac...
My Favorite Facts About Leatherbacks
The beginning of October typically signifies the beginning of fall. Leaves change, the nights get cold, carved pumpkins begin to show up on doorsteps. But October also marks the beginning of a new fiscal year for our fed...
What’s Next for NOAA Funding?
A lot of people think my home state of New Jersey is … well, kind of trashy. From the hard partying featured on MTV’s “Jersey Shore,” to our collective affinity for diner food, to the assumption that everyone is a charac...
Taking Action on Single-Use Plastics From New Jersey to California
We all could use a little inspiration sometimes, especially amidst a modern world with so much uncertainty. While it’s wonderful to turn to literature, films or videos for motivation to help us remember what’s important,...
5 Life Lessons From Marine Wildlife
Halloween is around the corner. Oftentimes this spooky season brings with it a lot of candy and a lot of food wrappers covering those sweet treats. Last year plastic food wrappers replaced cigarette butts as the number o...
Take the Food Wrapper Challenge
What ocean animal has a tail like a monkey, looks like a horse and can use camouflage like an octopus? A seahorse! Today, we’re diving into yet another ocean mystery: why do we have horses in the sea? When I tell my kids...
Why Do Seahorses Look Like Horses?
The paper nautilus is a true anomaly in the cephalopod world. Despite its name, the paper nautilus—also known as an argonaut—is not a nautilus at all. It’s actually an octopus! Read on to learn more about these weird and...
Get to Know the Paper Nautilus
This guest blog was written by Chelsea Rochman, Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, co-founder of the University of Toronto Trash Team and Scientific Advisor to Ocean Conservancy. Nurdle. Pre-production pe...
Plastic Pellets Spell Big Problems for Our Ocean
Ocean Conservancy teamed up with the Marine Exchange of Alaska to produce a short report describing how advances in navigation and communications technologies can help enhance shipping safety and environmental protection...
What Is E-Navigation and Why Is It Important in the Arctic?
There’s nothing quite like the first time you plunge beneath the ocean’s surface with SCUBA gear and become immersed in a world that was invisible to you just moments ago; a world full of corals and kelp, fishes and turt...