WaterNotes

One Ton Landed got a nice bump in the weight totals today with an additional 40 pounds added to the tally. (Unfortunately it was probably more weight than this, but I forgot the scale on my way to the site. )  We returned to the site of our Earth Day cleanup, two extra volunteers/teachers/nerds on [...]

Oceana’s 2nd Ocean Heroes Contest is in full swing and the nominees are accruing votes as we speak. This year you can also make a very simple pledge to help protect the oceans and help fundraise for Oceana at the same time. For each pledge collected, an anonymous donor will match it with a $1 [...]

Bioluminescence is old hat, right? TED’s latest talk from the Mission Blue Voyage featuring Edith Widder’s astounding presentation on bioluminescent animals may have you considering otherwise. Bioluminescence has evolved independently perhaps some 40-50 times? Eighty to ninety percent of life in the oceans has some capacity to produce their own light? Bioluminescent signatures can allow [...]

Really love this outreach video created through the Save My Oceans campaign about marine debris. Not only is it visually cute – and thus attractive to perhaps more people than a depressing montage of engulfed beaches – but the song is great!

I haven’t quite been able to keep up with the status of the oil spills resulting after the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform disaster from this past week.  There were reports that there was a slick, then that there was not, and now it seems that this image from NASA confirms that the slick certainly exists [...]

Ah, now this is a bit more like it.  Seems that TakePart and DisneyNature’s Oceans film have teamed up for the Save My Oceans Tour to highlight marine conservation concerns.  I still haven’t managed to get out to see Oceans – although I’m dying too – owing mostly to the insane nature of field trip [...]