Blowing Bubbles
Three hours of blowing bubbles among the coral reefs around Bocas del Toro gave me plenty of time to take in beautiful impressions of a rich ecosystem and questions about its long-term survival.
The Elegance of Simplicity
Call me a nerd (I’m doing that all the time) but there is something beautiful about the coming together of superb engineering and design to create a gadget that does what it is meant to do, simply, efficiently… Read More
Restronguet Creek Revisited
My first close encounter with pollution emanating from the abandoned mines in England’s Southwest occurred in the mid 1990s, when research for my undergraduate dissertation brought me to Restronguet Creek in the Fal Estuary. A former tin mine… Read More
Plankton and Seaweed
Half of the oxygen that sustains life on Earth is produced in the ocean…
Sunny Days in Ireland
Once more, I joined the sail training tall ship Pelican of London for STEM at SEA education voyages with Sail Training Ireland youngsters on board. We have a little more time than usual in Dublin and we make… Read More
STEAM Education Link X
Do you want to be an Ocean Advocate and don’t know what to do to achieve this?
Agreement is Hope
A new treaty to protect the oceans has been agreed upon by the United Nations after more than a decade of negations and a marathon of talks in the last few days. If ratification can be achieved, the… Read More
The (Hidden) Cost of Travel
I recently travelled in the Caribbean for Seas Your Future and here is my attempt to figure out my additional carbon footprint of this trip.
…nothing such as a free lunch…
For many decades, we’ve released too much carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and for some decades, scientists have developed and tested geoengineering solutions for the consequences of increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in our… Read More
Biodiversity – COP15
the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) state that around 50,000 wild species are used by humans through hunting, fishing, gathering, logging and harvesting, as well as observing. Around 20% of humanity rely on wild species for income and… Read More
Marine Measurement Forum
The 65th meeting of the Marine Measurement Forum (MMF65) was hosted by Aquatec on the 30th November 2022. It’s a good space for exchanging news on research, ideas and developments across the marine measurement and ocean technology –… Read More
Head in the Clouds!
We are celebrating the 250th birthday of Luke Howard, the man who named the clouds. Besides studying languages, pharmacy and natural sciences, he was an ‘amateur’ meteorologist. The Royal Meteorological Society is marking his contribution to the field… Read More
Challenging Habitat 