The waters of Whiting Harbor near Sitka, Alaska, are icy this late winter morning, but “ROVer” doesn’t mind, it doesn’t even shiver. The remotely operated vehicle, or ROV, from NOAA’s Auke Bay Laboratories is on a mission: Find “rock vomit.” Lesser known as Didemnum vexillum, rock vomit is an invasive sea squirt discovered in Alaska [...]
Cities worldwide are failing to take necessary steps to protect residents from the likely impacts of climate change, even though billions of urban dwellers are vulnerable to heat waves, sea level rise and other changes associated with warming temperatures.
New Jersey Governor Christie’ has moved to kill a proposed liquefied natural gas port at sea 17 miles off the state’s coast. Christie invoked the authority of coastal governors to veto such offshore development, a provision of the federal Deepwater Port Act that specifies that licenses granted by the federal Maritime Administration need the endorsement of [...]
Blue Planet Scuba, a new scuba diving organization that opened in Dupont Circle in October, announced today the first program of “carbon neutral” scuba travel opportunities for DC, Maryland, and Virginia divers.
A team of state and federal biologists assisted a severely entangled North Atlantic right whale off the coast of Daytona, Florida. The team successfully removed more than 150 feet of ropes wrapped around the whale’s head and fins, and cut portions of entangling ropes that remain on the animal.
Ahhh, the Holidays! Tis the season for entertaining and getting together with friends and family. If you are planning on serving seafood as part of your holiday feasts, there are many things you can do to ensure that your choices are sustainable and do not reward retailers and commercial fisheries who threaten our oceans’ ecosystems. Why is this so important? In 2003, the Pew Oceans Commission warned that the world’s oceans are in a state of “silent collapse,” threatening our food supply, marine economies, recreation and the natural legacy we leave our children.
Environmental crises like the Gulf oil spill make scientists and citizens more aware of the importance of clean and flourishing marine ecosystems. The Florida Institute of Technology is among those institutions taking the lead in a major step toward public understanding of the ocean by joining the Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence (COSEE) Network. Based at Indian River State College (IRSC) in Fort Pierce, the center is a collaboration of IRSC, Florida Tech, the Smithsonian Marine Station and the Ocean Research and Conservation Association (ORCA
University of British Columbia researchers today launched a $13-million, nine-year research program with Japan’s Nippon Foundation (NF) to study the future of the world’s oceans and to monitor the impact of human activities on seafood resources.
The grocery chain took this important step in sustainability on September 2nd of this year after several meetings with Iemanya staff to discuss transitioning Henry’s to sustainable seafood and receiving petitions by Iemanya Oceanica supporters to discontinue selling shark meat. In a formal letter to Iemanya, Doug Veranai, the Meat and Seafood Director for Henry’s stated, “We are currently working to find alternative resources so we can start to reduce and eliminate any additional unsustainable seafood from our counters.”
The U.S. Senate should heed the recommendation by the staff of the bipartisan National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling that “Congress should direct 80 percent of civil and criminal Clean Water Act penalties” to Gulf Coast restoration, according to eight non-profit groups. While the full commission report is expected in January, the groups urged the Senate to act on this staff recommendation before the lame duck congressional session ends later this month.
In a world first, a new ‘state of the art’ climate change experimental facility has been completed at the University of Queensland’s (UQ) Heron Island Research Station.
The proposed listings cite threats posed by diminishing sea ice, and additionally, for ringed seals, reduced snow cover. NOAA climate models were used to predict future sea ice conditions.
We appreciate the leadership from President Obama on the importance of looking carefully at the nation’s energy program to balance exploration with environmental concerns. We are, however, concerned about the pressure this decision puts on the U.S. Arctic Ocean. If we learned anything from the Gulf, it’s that oil spill response is challenging—even in temperate waters.
The tidal power plant has an installed effect of 1.5 MW, and the unique turbine blades of laminated wood with a diameter of 23 meters. Indications are that both of these variables qualify the Morild II to being the world’s largest floating power plant of its kind.
The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas met in Paris from November 17th – 27th. Delegates from 48 Contracting Parties worked through ten days of difficult and important negotiations to try to strengthen the conservation of Atlantic bluefin tuna and other species under the organization’s responsibility
The federal agency’s memo to states recognizes carbon dioxide as not only an air pollutant but a water pollutant, and notes the serious impacts that ocean acidification can have on aquatic life. Ocean acidification refers to the decrease in the pH of the Earth’s oceans caused by the uptake of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas (GHG), from the atmosphere . Ocean acidification, like climate change, is primarily caused by increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in the atmosphere. As a result of absorbing large quantities of CO2 emissions, ocean chemistry is changing, which is likely to negatively affect important marine ecosystems and species including coral reefs, shellfish and fisheries.
BOEM Seeks Input on an Environmental Assessment for Ocean Current Technology Testing Offshore Florida
UK Opens a £20Million Marine Energy Grant Opportunity
U.S. DOE to Fund One Wave Energy Project for One Year
Norway’s Wello Will Deploy Wave Energy Converter at EMEC by the end of the Month
Ocean Power Technologies Announces Results for the Fiscal Third Quarter Ended January 31, 2012
Ocean Renewable Power Company Receives Permit for Tidal Energy Project in Bay of Fundy
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