A New Look at Plastic Pollution in Belize

August 3, 2015

Over the 15 years that we have owned and operated our Blackbird Caye Field Station in Turneffe Atoll, Belize we…

Download SWOT Report, Vol. X

May 1, 2015

We are pleased to announce that SWOT Report—The State of the World’s Sea Turtles, tenth anniversary edition is now available…

Manatee Expedition Named a 2015 National Geographic Tour of a Lifetime

April 19, 2015

We are honored to announce that our Florida Manatees’ Ecosystem and Conservation expedition has been selected as one of National…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…