Updates From Belize: New Staff, Drones, And More
Our Blackbird Caye Field Station on Turneffe Atoll, Belize reopened on January 1, and already we have lots of exciting…
New Publication Documents Manatee Presence at Turneffe Atoll
[IMAGE] A new publication by Oceanic Society researchers and partners documents the presence of Antillean manatees at Turneffe Atoll and lays a…
Farallon Islands Whale Watch Sightings: November 2014
Following are the naturalists’ sightings reports from our Farallon Islands whale watching programs during November 2014. [IMAGE] Date: November 8…
Farallon Islands Whale Watch Sightings: October 2014
Following are the naturalists’ sightings reports from our Farallon Islands whale watching programs during October 2014. Date: Sunday, October 19,…
Manatee Workshop Emphasizes The Big Picture: Manatees’ Ecosystem & Conservation
For one long weekend each January since 2009, the Espedeco Tree Farm in Citrus County, Florida hosts adventurers, leading manatee…
Overcoming Doubts And Demons in Panama
The last thing you ever want to hear when working on a community development project is that it has angered…
6 Amazing Cephalopod Species You Didn’t Know Existed
Few groups of animals are as dazzling and diverse as the cephalopods, a group of around 800 living marine species…
Update From Panama: Late Night Crisis and Plastic Turtles
One in the morning is just the time I wanted to get up (well maybe not quite that early…). “Amanda…
What Global Warming Looks Like: Observations From The Arctic
At first it was just an ivory speck against an endless snowy backdrop on the eastern coast of Spitsbergen Island…
Farallon Islands Whale Watching Season Off To An Exciting Start
Oceanic Society’s 2014 Farallon Islands whale watching season (late-May through mid-November) is off to an exciting start! Participants aboard Sunday’s…
On Winning In Turtle Conservation
This article first appeared in The State of the World’s Sea Turtles (SWOT) Report, Vol. 9, published by Oceanic Society…
Update from Panama: Just Keep Swimming
Things are really rolling in my work with Armila’s public schools. I have begun teaching environmental science labs for…