This week Kathi Koontz began working with us in our new office in San Rafael, CA. She comes on with the title “Program Director” but as we all do here, Kathi wears a lot of hats. I’ve known her as…
Category: OCR News
International conference on ocean noise pollution
It was once a popular belief that the ocean was “the silent realm.” This was largely due to the fact that humans are poorly adapted to hearing underwater, and marine animals don’t appear to have “ears” that look anything like…
Healthy Ocean = Sustainable Planet panel discussion
On Thursday June 13 I will be joining Ocean Conservancy’s Julia Roberson and fisheries conservationist Ken Hinman in a panel discussion moderated by Mark Spalding, President of the Ocean Foundation. The discussion will be available as a webcast at 4…
Off to Washington
While our mission is to understand the impacts of human-generated noise on marine life, we also work to bring our understanding into the public dialog to inform policy and practice. So as you read this Gwynn and I will be…
Hands Across the Sand in support of non-fossil fuel.
Saturday June 25 is International “Hands Across the Sand” day – a show of hands (and bodies) in opposition to offshore oil and gas extraction, and in support of renewable energy systems. It can be stated unequivocally that fossil fuel…
KWMR Interview Monday May16, 5 pm PST
This afternoon I will be speaking with Jennifer Stock with NOAA/Cordell Banks National Marine Sanctuary on a special edition of her “Ocean Currents” program on West Marin Radio’s KWMR. The program will be streamed live on the internet, but if…
OCR on KZYX Thursday Sept. 16 @ 7 pm PST
I’ll be featured in and interview by Debra Scott from KZYX this evening. This station covers the Northern California communities of Mendocino, Willits, Ukiah, and Ft. Bragg, but you can “beam in on the web” through this Live Radio connection.…
Is the ocean really getting louder?
OCR mathematician Tom Reuterdahl and I have just finished a modeling exercise aimed at determining how loud the ocean was prior to industrial whaling. The premise of the investigation is that while some 50,000 cargo ships are now plying the…
Ocean Gala – Peter Benchley Awards
Ocean conservation allies and colleagues from the Blue Frontier Campaign are sponsoring the annual “Peter Benchley Awards,” a gala event to recognize leading ocean heroes. This year’s recipients include NOAA Secretary Dr. Jane Lubchenco, Academy Award winning producer Louis Psihoyos…
Ocean on Air! Radio Interview
I have been invited by ‘Compassionate Trickster’ and Mythology Maven Caroline Casey to speak about the Ocean today. Caroline has a fabulous gift of weaving our contemporary political, cultural, and ecological events into the fabric of human archetypal and mythological…