One-by-one Marin City students joyously stepped aboard Sausalito’s finest sailboat, the Freda B. For most of the children, this was their first time experiencing life out on the waters of the San Francisco Bay. There was a palpable sense of…
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.
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…
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…
Scientific inquiry has always been characterized by reaching out into the unknown and illuminating our findings. From Galileo fixing his telescopes into the firmament and Leuwenhoek peering at the microscopic denizens in a drop of water; from the Phoenicians setting…
