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Hope Delayed for Sharks in Atlantic
November 20, 2012 – 12:00 pm
Hope Delayed for Sharks in Atlantic

Conservationists failed to win new protections for threatened sharks in the Atlantic Ocean at the annual meeting of a major international fisheries commission, but they hope to make significant progress over the next few years.

Ocean Still Suffering from Fukushima Fallout
November 20, 2012 – 11:00 am
Ocean Still Suffering from Fukushima Fallout

Radioactivity is persisting in the ocean waters close to Japan’s ruined nuclear power plant at Fukushima Daiichi.

Research, Ecological Restoration Get Unprecedented Windfall From BP Oil Spill Criminal Settlement
November 20, 2012 – 10:27 am
Research, Ecological Restoration Get Unprecedented Windfall From BP Oil Spill Criminal Settlement

One of the largest oil spills in history continues to generate record sums of money for scientific research and environmental restoration.

What Goes Down Must Come Back Up: Effects of 2010-11 La Niña On Global Sea Level
November 20, 2012 – 10:15 am
What Goes Down Must Come Back Up: Effects of 2010-11 La Niña On Global Sea Level

For most of the past two decades, the NASA and European Topex/Poseidon, Jason-1 and Jason-2 satellites have tracked the gradual rise of the world’s ocean in response to global warming.

‘Dark Energy’ – Life Beneath the Seafloor: Scientists Present Recent Findings On the Subsurface Biosphere
November 20, 2012 – 9:26 am
‘Dark Energy’ – Life Beneath the Seafloor: Scientists Present Recent Findings On the Subsurface Biosphere

“Who in his wildest dreams could have imagined that, beneath the crust of our Earth, there could exist a real ocean…a sea that has given shelter to species unknown?”

World Ocean Council Announces Second Sustainable Ocean Summit
November 19, 2012 – 12:42 pm
World Ocean Council Announces Second Sustainable Ocean Summit

[ April 22, 2013 to April 24, 2013. ] Global Ocean Business Community to Meet 22-24 April 2013 in Washington DC

ONW: Week of November 12, 2012 – Number 183
November 16, 2012 – 4:52 pm
ONW: Week of November 12, 2012 – Number 183

The staff here at Ocean Leadership works hard to make certain that each week we provide you with the most useful and timely information regarding our efforts, activities of the community, news from Capitol Hill, and all opportunities, jobs and internships that we feel you might find beneficial.

From the President’s Office – 11/16/2012
November 16, 2012 – 4:43 pm
From the President’s Office – 11/16/2012

Congress returned to Washington this week for a lame-duck session that will set the tone for whether the President and Congress can work together.

At Least One-Third of Marine Species Remain Undescribed
November 16, 2012 – 3:38 pm
At Least One-Third of Marine Species Remain Undescribed

At least one-third of the species that inhabit the world’s oceans may remain completely unknown to science.

Attention Cyber School Teachers and STEM Educators!
November 15, 2012 – 2:59 pm
Attention Cyber School Teachers and STEM Educators!

Deep Earth Academy, the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), and the Consortium for Ocean Leadership are pleased to announce the 2013 School of Rock Expedition for Earth and Ocean Science Educators aboard the incredible143m JOIDES Resolution, a platform outfitted for state-of-the-art scientific exploration and education.

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