Ocean pastures offer an unsurpassed richness of biodiversity and incumbent natural drugs The slippery slimy world of ocean pastures dominated by tiny plants and animals…
Small moves Sparks, small moves… A meteor that fell to Earth last December appears to be a fragment of a comet that burst 10km above…
Back in the 1990’s I learned the hard way about the meaning of life. I’d always been a naturalist and conservationist and also a regular…
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…
Here’s a letter from Tim who has given us a great deal of very good advice for a long time. If you want to win…
“If we don’t make a stand in British Columbia… 100 years from now we might have very few salmon. Mitigation measures should not be delayed…
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…
Read along with me as I share with you my report on being witness to the greatest migration of animal life on Earth. In the…
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…
Icelandic Volcano with the difficult name, Eyjafjallajökull’s iron-rich ash fertilized North Atlantic Ocean In about a third of the global ocean, the abundance of life…
Greenland adds vital nutrient to ocean Reuters March 11, 2013 A melt of Greenland’s ice is washing large amounts of the nutrient iron into the…
The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Northwest Atlantic through Eastern Tropical Pacific J. Craig Venter’s GOS has sequenced 6.3 billion base pairs of DNA…
An incredibly useful and state of the art science tool in our ocean pasture stewards tool kit is our FIRE instrument. They don’t come cheap,…
Studying plankton requires some passion If you are going to replenish, restore, and tend to ocean pastures you must first study plankton, and you might as…
For billions of years when this planet was first learning about life, the only form of life of the planet were the cyanobacteria, the Blue…
Overfished and under-protected: Oceans on the brink of catastrophic collapse By Tom Levitt, for CNN, updated 12:11 PM EDT, Fri March 22, 2013 In many ways,…
Fleets of robot submarines will change oceanography ECONOMIST Jun 9th 2012 SAILING the seven seas is old hat. The latest trick is to glide them. Sea…
Greens Attack Haida Mariculture
Being learned science and green business folk we don’t ordinarily read the hard edge conservative media but today we’ve learned a welcome lesson to be…