WHOI Launches Ocean Awareness Video Campaign in NYC
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has launched a video campaign on the world’s biggest stage to highlight the importance of the planet’s largest life-sustaining feature—the ocean.
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Offshore Wind Monitoring Program Advancing in New Jersey
Garden State Offshore Energy (GSOE) announced it was moving forward with plans to install state-of-the-art mobile wind resource assessment equipment – SeaZephIR – a patented, floating platform with an integrated ZephIR LIDAR system powered by solar and wind energy. The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities recently approved the move, a key step in evaluating the GSOE site.
NOAA: Coral Bleaching Likely in Caribbean This Year
According to the NOAA Coral Reef Watch monitoring system, coral bleaching is likely in the Caribbean in 2010. With temperatures above-average all year, NOAA’s models show a strong potential for bleaching in the southern and southeastern Caribbean through October that could be as severe as in 2005 when over 80 percent of corals bleached and over 40 percent died at many sites across the Caribbean.
Covanta Energy Corporation and Project Kaisei Join Forces to Clean Up Ocean Debris
Project Kaisei is a non-governmental organization focused on reducing plastic waste in the ocean. Covanta Energy is an internationally recognized owner and operator of large-scale Energy-from-Waste and renewable energy projects. Together they have committed to clean up ocean debris, beginning with the Plastic Vortex in the North Pacific Gyre
DOE to Study Effects of Marine Renewable Energy Devices on Aquatic Life
Super-sized electromagnetic coils are helping explain how aquatic life might be affected by renewable energy devices being considered for placement along America’s coastal waters and in the nation’s rivers.
Ocean Renewable Power has Successful Commercial Turbine Test
Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC), an industry leader in tidal, river and deep-water ocean current energy technology and projects, announced today that its Beta Power System, the largest ocean energy “power plant” ever installed in U.S. waters, has successfully generated grid-compatible power from tidal currents at its Cobscook Bay site in Eastport, Maine.
Aug 19 2010 | Posted in Featured Articles,Latest Ocean News,Ocean Power Technologies & Projects | Read More »
‘Sustainable’ Certification of Fish Caught on Surface Longlines Opposed by Pew Environment Group
The Pew Environment Group today criticized a proposal asking the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) to certify as sustainable a fishery that threatens vulnerable marine species including bluefin tuna, blue marlin, short-fin mako sharks and loggerhead and leatherback sea turtles.
Caribbean Coral Reef Protection Efforts Miss the Mark
Conservation efforts aimed at protecting endangered Caribbean corals may be overlooking regions where corals are best equipped to evolve in response to global warming and other climate challenges. That’s the take-home message of a paper published in this week’s issue of the journal Science by researchers Ann Budd of the University of Iowa and John [...]
Pew Seeks Landmark Conservation Solutions at Historic International Whaling Commission Meeting
Efforts to finally bring an end to the impasse between pro-whaling and anti-whaling countries in the International Whaling Commission (IWC) will be the focus of the IWC’s Annual Meeting, opening in Agadir, Morocco, on Monday, June 21. The “Save the Whales” campaign of the 1970s and 1980s mobilized governments and the public around the world [...]
Jun 18 2010 | Posted in Latest Ocean News,Ocean Environment,Ocean Industry, Policy & Regulation | Read More »
Obama Administration to Reverse US Position on Commerical Whaling – What??????
I received an email from Greenpeace concerning the United States’ position relating to commercial whaling, which I found shocking. President Obama’s delegation to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) has decided to back a plan that would legalize commercial whaling
Join the International Day of Protest for Lolita the Killer Whale on May 15, 2010
Join one of the many peaceful international protest events, to be held around the world on Saturday, May 15, 2010, for Lolita’s retirement. A young adult at about 40 years old, Lolita has been maintained at the Miami Seaquarium marine park in a tank which does not meet USDA size standards (why haven’t they been [...]
20 Rare Pink Dolphins Die of Poisoning in Peruvian Amazon
According to the Latin American Herald Tribune, some 20 pink dolphins were apparently poisoned and killed in Bazagan Lagoon in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon
Whale Attack at SeaWorld – End Captivity Now!
The loss of human life yesterday at SeaWorld was tragic. The appropriate response to this tragedy would be to end the captivity of Killer Whales and the inexcusable exploitation of them by the entertainment industry.
Feb 25 2010 | Posted in Ocean Environment | Read More »
Pew Environment Group Urging Protection of Bluefin Tuna
Washington, DC – 09/01/2009 – The Pew Environment Group today joined 14 fishing and conservation organizations and more than 55,000 members of the general public in urging the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to reject its current proposal to allow commercial long-line fishermen to catch and sell more Atlantic bluefin tuna, an iconic species nearing [...]
Sep 2 2009 | Posted in Ocean Environment | Read More »
What is Red Tide?
The term “Red Tide” has been in the news lately as a result of this summer’s red tide event on the coast of Maine in the United States. Red tide is a phenomenon caused by microscopic algae blooms, during which algae become so numerous that they discolor coastal waters (hence the name “red tide”). The algal [...]
Aug 13 2009 | Posted in Uncategorized | Read More »
The Coral Triangle Initiative:Protecting Our Richest Marine Resource
On May 15th of this year, the Presidents and Prime Ministers of Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Solomon Islands, and Timor Leste formally adopted one of the most comprehensive and specific plans for ocean conservation: the Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI). The 10-year Regional CTI Plan of Action sets time-bound steps to [...]
Aug 10 2009 | Posted in Ocean Environment | Read More »
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BOEM Seeks Input on an Environmental Assessment for Ocean Current Technology Testing Offshore Florida
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UK Opens a £20Million Marine Energy Grant Opportunity
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U.S. DOE to Fund One Wave Energy Project for One Year
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Norway’s Wello Will Deploy Wave Energy Converter at EMEC by the end of the Month
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Ocean Power Technologies Announces Results for the Fiscal Third Quarter Ended January 31, 2012
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Ocean Renewable Power Company Receives Permit for Tidal Energy Project in Bay of Fundy
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