Jacksonville Jaguars Rookie K’Lavon Chaisson Joins Team Ocean
Melting glaciers and plastic pollution are a few things on Jaguars rookie K’Lavon Chaisson’s mind when he’s not on the field. “I don’t know how you can ignore it,” he said about climate change. And Chaisson is making his...
Jacksonville Jaguars Rookie K’Lavon Chaisson Joins Team Ocean
This blog was written by Dave Doebler, the co-founder, along with his partner Dara Schoenwald, of VolunteerCleanup.org, a citizen-led environmental action group that has removed tons of marine debris from South Florida w...
Florida’s Water Quality Crisis
On Thursday, July 23, Ocean Conservancy held its first-ever virtual fundraiser, Cooking for the Ocean. The delicious and engaging cooking experience hosted about 150 attendees and raised more than $35,000 for Ocean Conse...
Cooking for Our Ocean
This blog was written by Sophie McCoy, a marine scientist who studies ecological responses to pollution and climate. Sophie is a Lang Early Career Fellow of the Phycological Society of America and a Steering Committee Me...
How Will COVID-19 Affect Marine Science?
On July 25, the MV Wakashio was grounded on a coral reef off the coast of Mauritius. Since then, the ship has released 1,000 tons of fuel into the sea, where it has fouled the region’s biologically rich waters and coastl...
What’s Next for the Mauritius Oil Spill?
Ocean Conservancy has partnered with the City of Miami, Florida through the Shores Forward initiative to protect ocean and coastal habitats, species and communities. Partnering with a municipality as large and complex as...
Working with Miami’s Office of Resilience and Sustainability
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a (mangrove) tree. As a kid growing up on the Indian River Lagoon in East Central Florida, the paramount importance of red, black and white mangroves and buttonwoods was no...
Why Are Mangroves Important?
This blog was written by Guy Forchion, the Executive Director of Historic Virginia Key Beach Park. Ocean Conservancy has held a number of Cleanups in partnership with the phenomenal team at Historic Virginia Key Beach Pa...
How South Florida’s Civil Rights Movement Started in the Water and the Impacts 75 Years Later
Daniel S. Padilla Ochoa, Florida Partnerships Manager for Ocean Conservancy, sea-level rise specialist and urban planning graduate from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD), talked to Gary Hilderbrand, founding Prin...
The Work of Gary Hilderbrand and Design’s Response to Climate Change
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...