Updates From Belize: New Staff, Drones, And More

January 22, 2015

Our Blackbird Caye Field Station on Turneffe Atoll, Belize reopened on January 1, and already we have lots of exciting…

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New Publication Documents Manatee Presence at Turneffe Atoll

January 6, 2015

[IMAGE] A new publication by Oceanic Society researchers and partners documents the presence of Antillean manatees at Turneffe Atoll and lays a…

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Farallon Islands Whale Watch Sightings: November 2014

November 30, 2014

Following are the naturalists’ sightings reports from our Farallon Islands whale watching programs during November 2014. [IMAGE] Date: November 8…

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Farallon Islands Whale Watch Sightings: October 2014

October 31, 2014

Following are the naturalists’ sightings reports from our Farallon Islands whale watching programs during October 2014. Date: Sunday, October 19,…

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Manatee Workshop Emphasizes The Big Picture: Manatees’ Ecosystem & Conservation

August 25, 2014

For one long weekend each January since 2009, the Espedeco Tree Farm in Citrus County, Florida hosts adventurers, leading manatee…

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Overcoming Doubts And Demons in Panama

August 4, 2014

The last thing you ever want to hear when working on a community development project is that it has angered…

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6 Amazing Cephalopod Species You Didn’t Know Existed

June 24, 2014

Few groups of animals are as dazzling and diverse as the cephalopods, a group of around 800 living marine species…

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Update From Panama: Late Night Crisis and Plastic Turtles

June 11, 2014

One in the morning is just the time I wanted to get up (well maybe not quite that early…). “Amanda…

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What Global Warming Looks Like: Observations From The Arctic

June 7, 2014

At first it was just an ivory speck against an endless snowy backdrop on the eastern coast of Spitsbergen Island…

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Farallon Islands Whale Watching Season Off To An Exciting Start

June 3, 2014

Oceanic Society’s 2014 Farallon Islands whale watching season (late-May through mid-November) is off to an exciting start! Participants aboard Sunday’s…

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On Winning In Turtle Conservation

May 23, 2014

This article first appeared in The State of the World’s Sea Turtles (SWOT) Report, Vol. 9, published by Oceanic Society…

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Update from Panama: Just Keep Swimming

May 20, 2014

  Things are really rolling in my work with Armila’s public schools. I have begun teaching environmental science labs for…

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Support Community Conservation In Ulithi Atoll

May 16, 2014

Since 2004, Oceanic Society has been assisting the community on Falalop at Ulithi Atoll (Yap state) in Micronesia in their effort to…

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Farallon Islands Whale Watch Sightings: August 2014

April 30, 2014

[IMAGE] Date: Saturday, August 30, 2014 Naturalist: Susan Sherman Highlights: Sightings of three humpback whales and tufted puffins around the islands Participants…

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Big News: Our First Fluke ID Matches Confirmed

April 29, 2014

There aren’t that many eureka moments in science but yesterday, we had one. I drove up to Olympia, Washington yesterday…

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