Partnering With NOAA to Ensure Safe Drinking Water
Cleveland Water is the lead public water system in the Lake Erie Hypoxia Forecasting Project which began in March 2017. This 5-year grant project brings together inter-agency and university scientists to produce a foreca...
Partnering With NOAA to Ensure Safe Drinking Water
Florida’s cultural and ecological diversity is her pride and the keystone of the Floridian identity, and Floridians in their diverse and individual local communities know what’s best for their local coasts and waters. It...
Let Communities Decide How to Keep Their Beaches Trash Free
The effects of climate change can range from prosaic to pernicious, from scary to surprising. A recent paper in Nature Communications spurred the imagination of readers and reporters by discussing how ocean color may cha...
A Sea of Many Colors
It’s International Polar Bear Day and you know what that means—a perfect excuse to celebrate and learn new things about polar bears! Although we’re sure you already know the basics on this charismatic species, we’re here...
Your Top 10 Questions About Polar Bears Answered
This week, our Ocean Acidification Program Director Sarah Cooley, Ph.D., will testify before the United States House Committee on Science, Space & Technology’s Subcommittee on Environment. The hearing—Sea Change: Imp...
Hot Takes on Ocean Climate Change and Acidification
Dolphins and porpoises are some of the most charismatic critters in the ocean—but can you tell them apart? Although they might look alike at first glance, there are a few key differences that make it easy to tell which i...
How to Tell the Difference Between Dolphins and Porpoises
You wouldn’t dispose of your plastic straw by throwing it into someone’s front yard, and yet volunteers have picked up more than 9 million straws and stirrers from beaches and waterways over the 30+ year history of the I...
Skip the Straw to Help Save Marine Animals
Hey, we get it—invertebrates can be hard to tell apart. Although these soft-bodied, elongated sea-dwellers may seem similar, sea slugs and sea cucumbers could not be more different. Brush up on your invertebrate facts (a...
How to Tell the Difference Between Sea Slugs and Sea Cucumbers
Last week, we lost a congressional icon—Former Michigan Congressman John Dingell. Dingell worked tirelessly to improve the lives of the American people while protecting the environment during his time in the House of Rep...
Remembering a Conservation Giant—Rep. John Dingell
Fossils are preserved accounts of history and the organisms that have walked (or swum) the Earth long before us. We have learned so much from fossils, particularly those found in the vast ocean, that have seemingly decod...