Data is not much more than snapshots of something we want to understand taken through a familiar lens. Of course this presupposes a few conditions: that we’ve identified a relationship we want to explore, and that the data we…
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…
I first dipped into the ocean noise issue back in 1992, when the US Navy was funding a project that would ensonify a large portion of the Pacific Basin, purportedly to measure “ocean climate.” Without the benefit of more complete…
If you thought that the last two years have been off-the-hook, hang on to your hats; the traffic in chaos is just beginning. In the next 60 days of the “Lame Duck” congress, the corporatists will rush through a whole passel…
“The named is the mother of ten thousand things” is the conclusion of the first quatrain of the Tao Te Ching. This is particularly poignant for me, being conversant in numbers, and a wrangler of words. The quantity “10,000”…
Rallies and demonstrations are a part of the conservation landscape we typically leave to advocacy groups more honed to these activities. But as we are now in extraordinary times – when science is relegated to an “opinion” and lying is…
It’s hard to determine from where I sit where we’ll end up after the current aggressive disruption of our Federal Government, but it is quite clear that we have had a coup – by an industry that has lots of…
We are in the midst of a public comment period for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) proposal to hand over the entire US Outer Continental Shelf to the oilmen. Under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) a managing…
A bit over a month ago one of our supporters offered to sponsor a fundraising event for OCR, which became “Artists Prayer Flags – Offerings for the Ocean.” I wasn’t sure what to expect, but it sounded fun and gave…