BLOG PlasticsUncategorized July 13, 2020

What Lies on Land May Not Lie Beneath

This blog was written by Jenna Schwerzmann. Originally from upstate New York, Jenna began her marine conservation career on Long Island after graduating from Stony Brook University with a B.S. in Marine Vertebrate Biolog...

BLOG ArcticUncategorized July 13, 2020

What Lies on Land May Not Lie Beneath

The National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska is a vast tract of federal public land in the U.S. Arctic, bounded by the Chukchi Sea to the west and the Beaufort Sea to the north. More than ten times the size of Yellowstone Natio...

BLOG PlasticsUncategorized July 9, 2020

New Plan will Jeopardize the Arctic Coast

This was first published in The Hill.  With coronavirus cases rising in many places around the United States and health officials predicting a second wave to come, there’s no doubt that personal protective equipment (PPE...

BLOG Uncategorized July 8, 2020

Plastics Epidemic

Whoa! We’ve received more than a thousand submissions to our 2020 Photo Contest, and I am speechless at the incredible photos we’re seeing. We’ve been on a mission to make sure that people everywhere can still be inspire...

BLOG Uncategorized July 7, 2020

Will You Help Us by Voting for Your Favorite Photos?

It’s no secret that we’re big fans of cephalopods. It’s hard not to be when the group includes one-of-a-kind species like the adorable bobtail squid, the deadly blue-ringed octopus and the mysterious vampire squid. Today...

BLOG FloridaUncategorized July 6, 2020

Meet the Striped Pyjama Squid

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 Uncategorized June 29, 2020

A New Era of Ocean-Climate Action

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...