NOAA Awards $3.5 Million to Research Impact of Acidification on Complex Ecosystems
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
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
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
“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...
8 Estuary Species That Need Your Help
This blog was written by Charmaine Dahlenburg, Manager of the National Aquarium’s Chesapeake Bay Program. Estuaries are necessary for the health of people and the planet. They capture and filter stormwater runoff, reduce...
Bringing the Chesapeake Bay to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor
This blog was put together by Louie Porta and Susan Ruffo. Louie Porta is vice-president of operations for Oceans North. Susan Ruffo is Managing Director for International Initiatives for Ocean Conservancy. Canada’s G7 P...
Report Urges G7 Countries to Take Action on Reducing Plastic Debris in Oceans
Queens, New York. It’s a place that I, a northern New Jersey native, primarily associate with the Mets, airports and the Ramones. When I think about Queens, shoreline and sea life aren’t really the first things that come...
Training the Next Generation of Citizen Scientists in Queens, New York
Last week, Ocean Conservancy’s CEO Janis Searles Jones shared her take on our new #SuitUptoCleanUp campaign, inviting everyone to throw on their “ocean best” and head out to their local International Coastal Cleanup (ICC...