Category Archive: Center for the Blue Economy Fellows

First Full Week

First Full Week

My first full week at Maersk has been great. The company has two offices in Denmark. The main office is located in downtown Copenhagen, while …

 

First Impressions…

First Impressions…

This summer I am traveling to Denmark to participate in an internship with Maersk Drilling. Although my project might be subject to change and additional …

 

Introduction to Save the Waves

Introduction to Save the Waves

  My first week at Save the Waves has come and gone. I am lucky to work with a dedicated and unique group of people. Nick Strong-Cvetich, the executive director, does a great job introducing what the Save the Waves staff is up to currently: STW newsletter May 2013 Here is also a picture of […]

 

Leatherbacks vs. Mermaids

Leatherbacks vs. Mermaids

If you were lucky enough to catch The Animal Planet’s two new documentaries about mermaids, The Body Found and The New Evidence, you were probably left confused and uninformed. The audience was only informed at one point in the credits that the interviewees were actors, not scientists. And rather than covering the long list of problems that the […]

 

Trawling Our Love Away

Trawling Our Love Away

An excerpt from the book The Perfect Protein: The Fish Lover’s Guide to Saving the Oceans and Feeding the World, by Andy Sharpless and Suzannah Evans, was featured on Scientific American with the title ”Net Loss: How We Continually Forget What the Oceans Really Used to Be Like“. The excerpt covered the history of bottom trawling, a fishing method […]

 

Preparing for an Excellent Adventure in Bali, Indonesia

Preparing for an Excellent Adventure in Bali, Indonesia

My CBE fellowship has begun!  I have been lucky enough to become the World Surfing Reserve (WSR) Fellow for Save The Waves Coalition in Davenport, …

 

World Turtle Day

World Turtle Day

Did you know that the Pacific leatherback sea turtle swims 6,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean to feed on jellyfish that are abundant along the California coast during summer and fall months? Today is World Turtle Day and although it is a celebration for all species of turtles on land and in the sea, I’m taking this […]

 

Overview of Project

Overview of Project

  My fellowship from the CBE will be working with Save the Waves and based in Peru and Chile. I will be working on an economic valuation study of the surf spots in these areas. The study in Peru will be based in Huanchaco, a newly approved world surfing reserve. This site boats some pretty […]

 

Remotely FishWise: San Francisco to Santa Cruz

Remotely FishWise: San Francisco to Santa Cruz

It’s only week two of my CBE fellowship here at FishWise, a non-profit sustainable seafood consultancy, and I’m already a horribly negligent blogger… Where to begin?! My project this summer is producing a white paper on social issues in aquaculture and fisheries. I knew my work would involve Illegal, Unregulated, and Unreported (IUU) fishing and traceability, […]

 
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