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Four years ago yesterday I landed in Honolulu, on the island of Oahu, as I was visiting my 50th state to watch my alma mater, UMass Amherst, play Hawaii in football on Thanksgiving Day.  Great game even though UMass lost and the closest we have…

To quote U2, "It's a Beautiful Day" today!  As I would hope most people are now familiar with, earlier today it was announced that Joe Biden was elected as the 46th US President.  This bodes well for the ocean as under the current administr…

Here we are at the unofficial end of summer, Labor Day weekend, and what a summer it has been given the COVID-19 pandemic.  It's been hard on many beach towns and the full impact won't be known for several months.  So while we'd like to rec…

This Monday, June 8, is World Oceans Day.  Initially proposed by Canada in 1992, it wasn't until 2002 that The Ocean Project adopted World Oceans Day and started growing it's presence globally.  This year, 2020, is an especially critical ye…

As we head into the unofficial start of summer, it's an excellent time for reflection given the global circumstances of the last ~3 months due to both COVID-19 and how the US government is behaving (like a banana republic). Typically, this weekend wo…