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Kristin Mellon
Email: kmellon@oceanleadership.org
Kristin has contributed 37 articles for us. See below:
MEDIA ADVISORY: Bipartisan Group of Senators to Form Oceans Caucus
With our oceans and coastal ecosystems, and the economies and jobs they support, facing constant and increasingly grave threats from a variety of sources, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators will meet next week to form a new Senate Oceans Caucus.
8.7 Million Species on Earth and Counting
Census of Marine Life Scientists Announce New Estimated Number of Species on Earth. Eight million, seven hundred thousand species (give or take 1.3 million). That is a new, estimated total number of species on Earth — the most precise calculation ever offered — with 6.5 million species found on land and 2.2 million (about 25 percent of the total) dwelling in the ocean depths.
Jockeying Delays Spill Research Money
In May BP pledged $500 million over 10 years for independent scientific research on the gulf oil spill – a substantial sum and a lonely one.
Associate Vice President, Environmental Defense Fund
Environmental Defense Fund is currently seeking an Associate Vice President to play a key leadership role in its Oceans Program.
Assistant Administrator, Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), NOAA
NOAA is looking for a strong, innovative and collaborative leader to serve as the Assistant Administrator (AA) of NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR).
NIH to Launch Gulf Oil Spill Health Study
The National Institutes of Health will launch a multi-year study this fall to look at the potential health effects from the oil spill in the Gulf region.
BP’s Missing Research Money
In May, the company pledged $500 million for critical oil spill science. Then politics and parochialism got in the way.
Florida Coral Reefs Damaged by Cold Water
A rare series of cold-water upwellings from the deep ocean has severely damaged coral reefs in Florida already stressed by pollution, scientists say.
Study Overturns Old Theory Of Phytoplankton Growth
A new study concludes that an old, fundamental and widely accepted theory of how and why phytoplankton bloom in the oceans is incorrect.
NASA Goes Deep in Search of Extreme Environments
An expedition partially funded by NASA, part of a program to search extreme environments for geological, biological and chemical clues to the origins and evolution of life, has discovered the deepest known hydrothermal vent in the world, nearly 5,000 meters (16,400 feet) below the surface of the western Caribbean Sea.
New Detailed Observations of What Happens When Glaciers Float on Ocean Surface
Glaciers that lose their footing on the seafloor and begin floating behave very erratically, according to a new study led by a Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego researcher.
Scientists Find Rising Carbon Dioxide and ‘Acidified’ Waters in Puget Sound
Scientists have discovered that the water chemistry in the Hood Canal and the Puget Sound main basin is becoming more “acidified,” or corrosive, as the ocean absorbs more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
