Earth Day sprung out of concern – driven by a lot of environmental disasters leading up to what congealed into the environmental movement of 1970.
Earth Month!
Category: Just for fun
August’s Oceanic Symphony: Harmonizing Positive Conservation News
In the realm of conservation, we struggle with terms like ‘eco-anxiety’ and ‘environmental existential dread,’ acknowledging their impact on us. Amid the backdrop of climate calamity, it’s crucial that we don’t succumb to hopelessness, for action finds its wings in…
Birds “hear” the weather.
“The Most Dangerous Man in America” takes flight.
Regardless of how close or distant, we are all lucky that Daniel and Patricia Ellsberg have been in our lives. I was so fortunate to have intersected their circles by way of a couple of orbits – one through Patricia’s…
World Ocean Day 2023 – Empowering Youth
Ahoy OCR Community, The third week of May, we embarked on a thrilling odyssey through the San Francisco Bay as part of our ongoing hands-on Citizen Science Program. In honor of World Ocean Day, I am sharing both my personal experience…
Ocean Day 2023!
It is June 8 – World Ocean Day, we’ve circled the sun yet another time. and the Ocean remains…
Scenes from the Acoustical Society meeting in Chicago
None of these animals are merely “response machines;” rather they all have complex, and generally delightful personalities.
Earth Day comes around again!
In my perfect world, every day would be Earth Day! But if the world was perfect, OCR would not be doing the work we do – trying to make our collective habitat better for all of us that live in…
The Humble Annelid Worms
On this Thanksgiving, I express my deep gratitude to the annelid worms – who turn out to be much smarter than you might think!
Deep dive into Ocean Day
The bio-physics of deep diving mammals – that withstand pressures in excess of 4000lb.sq.in. And who else they find down in the abyss…