Hold the Guacamole: Florida Making Important Steps in Combating Harmful Algal Blooms
Over the past few years, Floridians have become unpleasantly familiar with repeated noxious harmful blue-green algal blooms that have plagued rivers and estuaries, killing fish and shellfish, fouling boats and underminin...
Hold the Guacamole: Florida Making Important Steps in Combating Harmful Algal Blooms
Last year I was lucky enough to be on board the E/V Nautilus when it made a remarkable discovery in the previously unexplored deepwater of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary—thousands of brooding octopuses. The o...
Exploring Monterey Bay’s Deep-sea Octopus Garden
Today is the last day of fiscal year 2019 for all federal agencies and programs. At midnight tonight, we will enter the next fiscal year (FY20) with lots of uncertainty remaining about the federal budget. Two important d...
Happy New (Fiscal) Year!
Since the Trump administration first proposed its draft five-year offshore oil and gas plan, there has been an outpouring of opposition to offshore drilling from coastal communities around the country. And Congress is li...
Americans Agree: No Risky Offshore Drilling
Our ocean is mind-bogglingly vast. It covers nearly 140 MILLION square miles of our Earth’s surface. That’s roughly 35 times the size of the United States! Our coastlines, on the other hand, are much smaller—and getting...
Ocean Planning Takes a Village
It’s that time again…the best week of the year has finally arrived! One of the most common questions we get from our community during Shark Week is “What can I do to help?” Well, friend, look no further. From decre...
9 Ways to Help Sharks This Shark Week
Who doesn’t want to be in a room of the best minds working together on awe-inspiring new technologies to save our ocean? As fans of all things ocean data and science, we were thrilled to represent Ocean Conservancy at NO...
Can New Technology Help Save the Ocean?
With President Biden’s signature on the National Defense Authorization Act of 2022, the Regional Ocean Partnership Act is now law.
<strong>Regional Ocean Partnership Act Receives Bipartisan Support</strong>
The ocean shapes the United States in a myriad of profound ways. To the east, the sun’s rays rise over the Atlantic and light our coastline from the cold waters of Maine down to the warm sands of Puerto Rico. To the west...
5 Key Laws That Protect Our Ocean
Do you ever wonder what happens at the bottom of the ocean? Well, NOAA’s Ship Okeanos Explorer has been exploring the mysterious deep-sea areas along the southeastern U.S. Coast for the past three weeks. With the incredi...