Tag: offshore

Adaptive Management during the hottest week on record.

The expansion of a fossil-fueled global economy over the last century has driven an historically unprecedented growth in global prosperity, technological advancement, and improvement in life-quality for a plurality of our planet’s human inhabitants. Unfortunately this phenomenon has falsely correlated…

Off to ‘polish the marble’ in DC

While the trumpets and banner-waving around the IRA (“Build Back Better Lite”) highlights all sorts of climate actions and infrastructure support for clean energy systems, buried in the bowels of the bill are a few short clauses that entirely destroy the climate effectiveness of the effort…

Working on the Ocean Climate Action Plan

Back in the darkening days of the previous administration, Rep. Raul Grijalva, Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, introduced the Ocean Based Climate Solutions Act of 2020 – a roadmap to advancing our engagement with the ocean with a…

All a matter of perspective

High frequency acoustic communications. Illus: Andy Lovas

I’ve just finished up a week in Pittsburgh, PA at an Acoustics Society conference. Because sound and acoustics intersect so many fields, Society meetings are some of the most diverse gatherings of disciplines under one roof – with sessions on…