Michael Stocker and Manolo Castellote retrieving the hydrophone moorings in Cook Inlet. Photos by Daniela Huson After a challenging couple of days on the Cook Inlet, we have successfully retrieved the four instrument moorings that we deployed in September at the commencement…
I’ve returned from Homer, Alaska where I was last week for the second phase of our Cook Inlet Seismic Survey monitoring project – sampling zooplankton in front of, and in the wake of the survey vessel…
Frustrated by the lack of subservience by many states, the oil administration is attempting to roll back our Constitutional rights on a number of fronts to advance their “American Energy Dominance” agenda. It has become abundantly clear that quite a…
While there seems to be a lot of Regulatory Agency activities these days – with changing of directors, indictments of outgoing directors, and also indictments of incoming directors, there are also a lot of monumental actions pending, and have…
Representative Joe Cunningham (D-SC) and his Air Horn demo There are a lot of moving parts right now on the proposal to open up the US Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) to oil and gas leasing. The issue has been…
Seismic surveys used to locate fossil fuel and manage their extraction are exacting a steep toll on marine life.
We’re not really waiting for the smoke to settle on the Incidental Harassment Authorizations (IHAs) issued a week ago last Friday before sharing with you what to do next. We’re actually enjoying watching the continuing conflagration – for the simple…
PGS “Ramform Titan” Seismic Survey Vessel After eleven years of effectively blocking the geophysical (seismic) survey off the Mid-Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) the shoe has finally dropped. Last Friday morning the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued “Incidental…
Francisco Goya – Saturno devorando a su hijo Back around the turn of the century, our National engagement with the Sea started coming up on everyone’s sonar. For the majority of our Nation’s history the ocean was considered “immeasurable”…
OCR Communications Director Daniela Huson and I have just returned from a week in Washington DC – to participate in Capitol Hill Ocean Week, and March for the Ocean. But probably more importantly, we went to “a special place in…