Just a couple of years ago common wisdom was that there might be 30,000 species of plankton in the surface ocean. The expedition described in…
Did medicines first and foremost doctor Hippocrates also invent the phrase “take two willow barks and call me in the morning.” It would seem so. Man…
Ocean phytoplankon are disappearing at an alarming rate. A far more rapid collapse than any ecosystem on Earth. The amount of phytoplankton in the top…
I wrote this piece as part of correspondence with a London thinker and speaker on the politics of climate issues. Dear John, If I may be excused…
Over my lifetime I have surely noticed the increasing number of reports on mercury in fish. Almost everyone now knows that top of the food…
Chinese Foreign Fisheries Catch 12 Times More Than Reported, Study Shows Apr. 3, 2013 — Chinese fishing boats catch about US$11.5 billion worth of fish from…
Carbon Expo Climate Market Event A few years back, around 2006 I believe, I was at the big global climate change market event called Carbon…
All of the above human “geoengineering” activity has taken place on just 14.6% of this planet. There seems to be a raging controversy about geo-engineering….
Here’s Our Most Important Pie Chart Of Where We Live. Our part is that 14.6% part that is habitable. There is a whole lot of…
A friend reminds me to accentuate the positive. Sometimes it is the simple messages that are the most important. In a month where I’ve had…
Some months ago, just before Christmas I believe, our Haida Salmon village office received a telephone call from a woman who identified herself as an…
Over the many years in planning our village project we ran across many scientific questions that we hoped our work might help provide clues and…
Climate Change: Current Issues 2011 Provided in cooperation with: Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW). Paper provided by Kiel Institute for the World Economy in its series Open…
“Your time is coming Russ. Just be persistent and keep your focus on the salmon.” I am of the view that First Nations will be…
While many international leaders work toward emission reduction strategies and carbon capture and storage they are missing the really key core problem. That problem is…
The series of satellite images below shows the plankton abundance during the month of August in our study region over the past 6 years. Note…
There are some people who walk apart from the madding crowds of the dull and boring. One such in the world of ocean science was…
Ocean data startup Liquid Robotics raises $45M Liquid Robotics, whose ocean robots generate their power from waves and gather data on the seas, said on…
Royal Society Describes Clone Of Haida Salmon Project
Ocean fertilization: R.S Lampitt, et al Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 13 November 2008 vol. 366no. 1882 3919-3945 Abstract: The oceans sequester carbon from the atmosphere partly as a…