BLOG ClimatePlasticsUncategorized September 18, 2020

Two-Time World Series Champion Hunter Pence Joins Team Ocean

The San Francisco Giants chose Hunter Pence as their Roberto Clemente Award nominee for 2020, Major League Baseball’s (MLB) annual recognition of the MLB player who best represents the game through extraordinary characte...

BLOG ClimateUncategorized September 18, 2020

Two-Time World Series Champion Hunter Pence Joins Team Ocean

On September 7, Ocean Conservancy will turn 48 years old. A lot has changed since our founding in 1972. We’ve celebrated some incredible ocean victories, like the passage of the Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Management and...

BLOG ClimateFloridaUncategorized September 4, 2020

Another Year Older

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...

BLOG ClimateUncategorized July 22, 2020

The Work of Gary Hilderbrand and Design’s Response to Climate Change

In Alaska, we are experiencing the dramatic and unpredictable effects of climate change more rapidly and more significantly than in most other places in the country. Almost daily, we hear about a new study or observation...

BLOG ClimateUncategorized July 17, 2020

How Will Climate Change Impact the Next Generation?

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 ClimateUncategorized July 1, 2020

What Climate Change Means for Alaskan Shellfish Farming

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

Theresa Peterson is Alaska Marine Conservation Council’s (AMCC) longest serving staff person (14 years!), an active fisherwoman and long-time resident of Kodiak, home to the nation’s largest fishing fleet. Theresa has a...

BLOG ClimateUncategorized May 27, 2020

The Powerful Impacts of Climate Change on Fisheries

Being born and raised in New Jersey, nothing was better than going down the shore and exploring the ocean and bays. Kayaking through Barnegat Bay and spotting all the wildlife remains one of my favorite things to do. Nes...

BLOG ClimateUncategorized May 22, 2020

What the Wetlands Give Us

Lately, a lot of ocean and climate change news talks about how our coral reefs are in trouble. Scientists estimate that almost all coral reefs will die off by the end of this century if we don’t take action to slow clima...

BLOG ClimateUncategorized May 7, 2020

Heat-Resistant Corals Could Help Save Reefs Into the Future

I don’t know about you, but as I’m adjusting to staying home and social distancing there are some days where I just want to do something good. While social distancing is by far the best action anyone can take right now,...