Questions for Queen Quet
The Gullah/Geechee Nation is led by Chieftess and Head-of-State, Queen Quet Marquetta L. Goodwine. She has recently authored two new books and Ocean Conservancy’s Ocean Acidification Program Manager, Ryan Ono, was able t...
Questions for Queen Quet
New shipping lanes open as summer sea ice decreases. Wildfires spread as tundra thaws and forests dry out. Marine debris clumps on rocky shores. Global change is visibly changing Arctic ocean and coastal environments. An...
Preparing for Surprises
From where I sit, it’s increasingly clear that business-as-usual from the ocean conservation community isn’t working when it comes to addressing climate change. That’s why I’m incredibly proud of our ocean-climate team f...
We Brought the Blue to This Year’s “Blue COP”
Melissa McCutcheon is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Coastal and Marine System Science program at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. She has always felt a special connection with the ocean and has spent more than eight y...
Small AND Mighty: Getting the Right Messages to the Right Ears
For decades, countries have largely overlooked our ocean within the UN’s climate change negotiations, despite the ocean having an outsized role in the functioning of our entire planet. But this year is different. This ye...
Bringing Our Ocean to This Year’s UN Climate Change Conference
In recent years, Ocean Conservancy has increasingly focused on climate change and the ocean-climate connection. Climate change is warming our ocean, damaging wildlife and ecosystems, and putting the billions of people wh...
All in on Climate
Last week I had the pleasure of leading Ocean Conservancy’s delegation to the 2019 Our Ocean Conference in Norway. We had a lot planned for the two-day event, and it felt like a whirlwind. I couldn’t be more proud of the...
Learning, Sharing, Acting for the Ocean in Oslo
I looked out of the plane window as it began to make its final descent and all I saw was a sea of grass lapping against a looming mountain range. This was not the type of sea I’m accustomed to. Fort Collins, Colorado mak...
Bringing Our Ocean to the Prairie
Opportunity. Partnership. Coordination. We repeatedly heard these inspiring, forward-looking ideas last week in Chile. Along with United States shellfish growers, ocean acidification experts and members of Washington Sta...
Dispatches from Chile
As we have learned from the recent release of the IPCC special report on ocean and cryosphere, changes to our ocean and coasts are coming ever faster, and we need to prepare for them. Last Friday, September 27, by signin...