BLOG FloridaUncategorized July 3, 2020

New Orleans Cooking Demo With Ocean Conservancy and Centerplate Executive Chef Brandon Felder

When someone says “New Orleans,” what do you think of? You hear music, see celebrations, smell and taste cuisines, and think of different cultures blending to create one of the world’s greatest communities. If you’ve eve...

BLOG ClimateUncategorized July 3, 2020

New Orleans Cooking Demo With Ocean Conservancy and Centerplate Executive Chef Brandon Felder

Weatherly Bates, her husband Greg and their two children, own and operate Alaska Shellfish Farms, an oyster, mussel and kelp farm near Homer, Alaska. Over the course of a 14-year venture, they’ve seen many changes on the...

BLOG FisheriesUncategorized July 1, 2020

What Climate Change Means for Alaskan Shellfish Farming

Around the country and world, many of us remain in various stages of stay-at-home, but there are still plenty of opportunities to celebrate our ocean and fish this summer by learning about sustainable fisheries and takin...

BLOG ClimateUncategorized June 30, 2020

6 Ways to Support Sustainable Fisheries From Home

By Gwynne Taraska and Cody Sullivan As National Ocean Month draws to a close, we need to acknowledge the greatest environmental threat our ocean and planet face: climate change. Climate change is already wreaking havoc o...

BLOG ScienceWildlife June 29, 2020

A New Era of Ocean-Climate Action

While we’ve come a long way in the past century in regards to ocean exploration, many people may not realize just how much of our ocean is still unexplored. While it certainly feels like we’ve seen a lot when it comes to...

BLOG Uncategorized June 26, 2020

8 Curiously Odd Ocean Finds

NOAA and federal partners recently released a National Strategy for Mapping, Exploring and Characterizing the United States Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in response to the Administration’s Presidential Memorandum. This...

BLOG ArcticUncategorized June 24, 2020

National Strategy on Ocean Exploration Will Depend on Implementation

The Arctic is a spectacular place—both beautiful and abundant. Home to Indigenous people, unique wildlife and wide-open expanses of wilderness, the Arctic is awe-inspiring whether you’ve visited or not. But, Arctic peopl...

BLOG ArcticUncategorized June 23, 2020

6 Ways to Explore and Support the Arctic From Home

The Arctic is changing fast: it’s warming at more than twice the rate of the rest of the planet, and seasonal sea ice in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas is decreasing in extent, thickness and duration. These changes mean A...

BLOG Uncategorized June 22, 2020

Reducing Risk in U.S. Arctic Waters

There is a lot going on. And while there is much uncertainty as to when we will find “normalcy” again, we hope, in the meantime, to help bring a splash of ocean joy to your lives this summer. Today, we are excited to con...

BLOG Uncategorized June 19, 2020

Are You an Amazing Photographer?

Parasites get a bad rap. Yes, the definition of a parasite is something that takes resources from another organism, while hurting the host in the process. And anyone who has personal experience with parasites (myself inc...