This is when it occurred to me that EO 13807 was a Trojan Horse… This was the bill that would lock us into fossil-fueled transportation for the next 30 years while privatizing our roads, bridges, waterways, and freeway rest areas.
This last month has been a study in maintaining magnanimity for me, as I have been reviewing the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) proposed revisions to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). NEPA has been called the “Magna Carta”…
In these last months of the current administration, they are hell-bent on destroying all regulations that constrain extraction industries – which is why we need to show up!
I hardly got my feet on the ground from our Alaska project before heading to San Diego, the land of calm seas and Scripps Institute of Oceanography. The incentive was the 178th meeting of the Acoustical Society, along with the…
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…
Despite the ongoing moratorium on offshore oil leasing in the US, there are a few locations where offshore leasing remains in play: the western 2/3 of the Gulf of Mexico, the American and Canadian Arctic, and the Alaskan Cook Inlet,…