In Pursuit of a Greener Planet
From the category archives:
Kudos to the LA Times for this animated graphic on how a storm surge forms.
Gulf Coast residents are hunkering down and hoping Hurricane Isaac will move on sooner rather than later. Post-Hurricane Katrina, lots of folks fought with their insurance companies as to whether their damages were caused by flooding caused by storm surge (not [...]
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The ocean realm is abuzz with an innovative Ocean Health Index (OHI) created by “… more than 65 scientists/ocean experts and partnerships between organizations including the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Sea Around Us, Conservation International, National Geographic, and the New England Aquarium“. The OHI covers the world’s exclusive economic [...]
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It’s been six years since Ocean Power Technologies applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a preliminary permit to study the feasibility of a renewable energy project off the Oregon Coast. To its credit, OPT embarked upon a lengthy collaboration with federal and state regulators and coastal stakeholders to establish conditions for its [...]
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A year ago today, the sun was shining, the sky was a rich spring blue. It was a perfect southern California day.
Except that my dear friend and classmate Tim Ray passed away. This is what I wrote to my classmates at Scripps Institute of Oceanography where Tim was a PhD student and I was a [...]
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I told our esteemed director, filmmaker/scientist Levi Lewis, that I was willing to take on any role in his film except that of actor. You can see how well I, and my fellow students, Dominique Cano-Stucco, Daniel Paredes-Gonzales and the late Tim Ray succeeded in this 60-second short, A Coral-Bacteria Love Story.
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The inter-disciplinary master’s program at UCSD/Scripps culminates in a Capstone project. One of the benefits of the program is that our Capstone allows us to be creative. We could write a formal research paper, or we could select a topic and communicate about it in a non-traditional (at least for academia) manner.
I know how to [...]
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This post marks my return to my blog after a long absence.
In early 2010, after several years of exploring what I might do next, a dear friend and mentor suggested that I get a PhD. While there are people my age and older who have embarked on that path, I did not want to [...]
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‘Globs of Death’ – Up close and personal underwater views of the BP disaster
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World Oceans Day – A Tribute, Freedivers at Dean’s Blue Hole
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Despite support of beach cities and California Legislature, Schwarzenegger vetoes SB 4, which would have banned smoking on state beaches and in state parks
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California dumps more than 1 billion gallons of drinking water into the Pacific Ocean every day. It’s way past time for legislators to halt this practice
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Support Legislation and Practices that Will Halt the Infusion of Debris from the West Coast into the Pacific Ocean
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