A Recap of Earth Day Virtual Cooking Demo with Centerplate and T-Mobile Park Executive Chef Taylor Park
In recent weeks, the kitchen has become a place of respite for many of us. And many of us have been trying our hands at developing new cooking skills and testing out new dishes. For Earth Day, Ocean Conservancy hosted ou...
A Recap of Earth Day Virtual Cooking Demo with Centerplate and T-Mobile Park Executive Chef Taylor Park
Earlier this week, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation questioned President Trump’s nominee to lead the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Dr. Neil Jacobs. NOAA, our nation’s t...
Introducing the New NOAA Administrator Nominee: Dr. Neil Jacobs
When people fly into Miami, they are taken aback by the city’s lush streetscape and seemingly continuous tree cover. Cities are usually sights of impermeable concrete—but Miami offers a refreshing marriage of metropolis...
How Fertilizers are Impacting Miami’s Waterways
With this year’s funding proposal for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Trump administration has yet again put forward cuts to our nation’s premier ocean agency. For the past four years, Con...
Trump Proposal Would Slash NOAA’s Budget … Again
This blog was written by Stan Senner, Vice President for Bird Conservation at the National Audubon Society. During the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, he was Director of Conservation Science at O...
Defending the Law That Brought Birds Back from the Brink
As we prepare for Super Bowl Sunday, it’s easy to make parallels between football and our environment. Take the relationship between the quarterback and their receivers. If your QB is struggling, your receivers will like...
3 Promising Water Quality Initiatives in Florida
After months of deliberations, the United States Senate passed the bipartisan Save Our Seas 2.0 Act (SOS 2.0) on Thursday, January 9. The bill still has a long road ahead before it can become law, but this represents a w...
Save Our Seas 2.0 Act Just Passed the Senate—Here’s Why It Matters
This week in Washington was one for the history books. But while the news cameras were pointed elsewhere on Capitol Hill, Congress finally took steps to fund the federal government for fiscal year 2020 (which actually st...
NOAA Budget Agreed to for 2020
Growing up in the Florida Keys, I’ve always loved marine wildlife. From sea turtles to dolphins to countless seabirds, there are so many incredible animals that call Florida home. While all of the Sunshine State’s marine...
Make a Difference for Manatees This Month
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...