Cocos Island Expedition --- August-September 2024 Cocos Log Blog Part 3 Sharks and Rays Scalloped hammerhead surrounded by a myriad of smaller fish (photo by Kaylam Pratt.) The iconic species...
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Cocos Island Expedition --- August-September 2024 Cocos Log Blog FISH! Part 4 So what are all those sharks eating? Cocos Island’s high productivity is fueled by upwellings created by the...
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Cocos Island Expedition --- August-September 2024 Cocos Log Blog Research Team Part 5 Our ongoing research at Cocos is focused on understanding the migration and ecology of endangered sharks, turtles...
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SPAWN’s Sediment Load Reduction Project in the Lagunitas Creek Watershed targets water quality concerns in the Lagunitas Creek Watershed due to fine sediment run off from impaired roads on Golden…
By Todd Steiner A new study out of Harvard and the University of Delaware published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2405898121) document that industrial fishing supplies 70%…
SPAWN’s Sediment Load Reduction Project in the Lagunitas Creek Watershed has been well underway this past month and will be wrapping up shortly. Here’s the latest update on how this…
New Species of Hammerhead Shark Discovered in the Caribbean and the Southwest Atlantic. The small shark, known as a bonnethead was believed to be a single species, but morphometric and…
Project 2025 Would Be a Disaster for Our National Marine Sanctuaries & Ocean Ecosystems By Todd Steiner According to a new article, https://www.americanprogress.org/article/project-2025-would-be-a-disaster-for-national-marine-sanctuaries/, the extreme conservative blueprint from the Heritage…
For Immediate Release, September 9, 2024 Contact: Joanie Steinhaus, Oceans Program Director at joanie@seaturtles.org or (409) 795-8426 Energy Department Urged to Reject Pending Liquified Natural Gas Export Permits Hundreds of…
By Todd Steiner When the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) allowed the sablefish fishery to expand into designated critical habitat for leatherback sea turtles, Turtle Island and Center for Biological…