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Electronic Tagging and Tracking Marine Animals Supports Conservation
A great hammerhead shark our team tagged swims away with a satellite tag towing behind its fin (Image: Evan D’Allesandro). The tag will track the migration patterns of these threatened marine animals...
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Shark Tagging & Tracking: Separating Fact from Fiction
For several years now, I have been using electronic tagging to study the movements and behaviors of sharks. You can find out more about this research HERE and watch a video HERE. I previously wrote...
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Voyage to the Central American Dome, the Forgotten Sea
By Erick Ross Salazar, MarViva MarViva Foundation and Mission Blue have teamed up to seek protection for a high seas “hope spot” called the Central American Dome (CAD). A term coined by Mission Blue...
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World Ocean Summit Puts Marine Issues “On Global Agenda”
Half Moon Bay, California, the site of the World Ocean Summit. Photo: Brian Clark Howard Hundreds of representatives from national governments, environmental organizations, academic institutions, and...
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John Kerry and Prince Charles Urge Immediate Action on Ocean Protection
The beach in Half Moon Bay, California. (Photograph by Brian Clark Howard) The editor-in-chief of The Economist, John Micklethwait, asked a packed room at the World Ocean Summit if they thought the...
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Can World Leaders Tame the Wild West of the High Seas?
A panel speaks at the World Ocean Summit in Half Moon Bay, California, on February 26, 2014. (Photograph by Brian Clark Howard) Earlier this month, Indonesia announced the world’s largest sanctuary for...
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More, Bigger, Better Marine Conservation
Photo by Andrew Seale/Marine Photobank. Recently one of my peers referred to doing more conservation as addressing the problem of how to take marine protection to scale. Covering nearly 70% of the...
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Wondering about the Economic Impact of Ecotourism on Marine Mammals? Read Here…
Fig. 1 A critically endangered blue whale off my RESEARCH study area of Santa Monica Bay, California. In recent years, blue whales and other endangered and threatened cetacean species have been...
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The Unswerving Case for a Blue Economy
Policy debates about the growing body of evidence showing that our oceans are on the decline tend to overlook one important detail: Ailing seas hurt the economies of all nations—large and small,...
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When sharks are fished-out from coral reefs, fish body shapes change
Sounds kinda weird.. but studying nearly identical coral reef systems off Australia, my collaborators and I discovered something unusual on the reefs subjected to nearly exclusive fishing of...
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