Into The Abyss – Tools For Ocean Pasture Stewardship
One of the tools you need to understand your ocean pasture is actually a frame with a large collection of instruments that you lower into the depths. CTDs measure conductivity, temperature and depth....
View ArticleVenture Capital Pours $600 MIllion Into Plankton Bio-Tech
The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Northwest Atlantic through Eastern Tropical Pacific J. Craig Venter’s GOS has sequenced 6.3 billion base pairs of DNA and identified 1.2 million new...
View ArticleUS NOAA Squid Inks R&D Startup For Pharmeceuticals From Plankton
A pharmaceutical research and development startup and NOAA signed an agreement designed with two goals in mind. The company, Biosortia, plans to discover and extract beneficial compounds from natural...
View ArticleNew Ocean Glider Lands Big Fish – $45 Million In Venture Capital
Ocean data startup Liquid Robotics raises $45M Liquid Robotics, whose ocean robots generate their power from waves and gather data on the seas, said on Tuesday it has closed a $45 million Series E...
View ArticleThe Politics And Pork Of Climate Change – And Yet It Worked
I wrote this piece as part of correspondence with a London thinker and speaker on the politics of climate issues. Dear John, If I may be excused for doing so, I read into the words you wrote some...
View ArticleOcean Pastures Are The Next Big Future For Drug Discovery
Did medicines first and foremost doctor Hippocrates also invent the phrase “take two willow barks and call me in the morning.” It would seem so. Man has been using natural product medicines from nature...
View ArticleFive New Marine Anti-Cancer Drugs Presented At Cancer Science Meetings
Zeltia SA : PharmaMar presents five new trials with its marine-based drugs at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 04/11/2013| 05:00am US/Eastern PharmaMar is a...
View ArticleA Call To 100 Villages. You Can Bring Back Your Fish.
My work developing and teaching the practical skills and science of ocean pasture stewardship in partnership with a tiny native village on the islands of Haida Gwaii in the N.E. Pacific has...
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