Videos & Podcasts

August 13, 2011.  Center for Ocean Solutions Executive Director Meg Caldwell, Okeanos Foundation for the Sea founder Dieter Paulmann, and Pacific Voyager crew member Tua Pittman deliver the opening speech at the COS Pacific Voyager welcoming reception.  

The FishNET project focuses on developing integrated low cost technology solutions that drastically improve our ability to observe and collaborate data about illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing so that action can be taken to stop this destructive, illegal activity. The central hub to FishNET is a web-based information system that can capture and analyze official and crowd-sourced data on fishing vessels and exploited areas. This flexible and complementary suite of technologies, increased community participation and the FishNET database can drastically improve our ability to manage our impact on the oceans, shape effective ocean policy, maintain food security and fish sustainably.  FishNET would be a powerful tool for ocean stakeholders to use to fight IUU fishing activities.

NPR-KCRW “Which Way LA” host Warren Olney interviews Michael Sutton, VP of Monterey Bay Aquarium, and discusses the importance of California Assembly Bill AB 376 which would ban the possession, sale, and trade of shark fins in the State of California.

Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, Mr. Michael Bromwich, came to Stanford University to pitch students in the sciences and law with a message of reform about his agency.  Once the much criticized Minerals Management Service, Mr. Bromwich has implemented reforms and reorganizations at the agency.  As part of this, he is recruiting younger talent from across the country to undertake public service by being a part of BOEMRE.