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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...