Why Whales?
I have had some who have asked me why I want to conserve whales. It is a valid question. Simply conducting the science necessary to better understand these deep sea […]
Tag Archives: Environment
When the Bough Breaks and the Cradle Falls
A petition was recently shared with me calling for the teen who was responsible for maliciously shooting dolphins with a barbed arrow in the Gulf to be treated as an […]
Is The Navy’s Remote Controlled Destroyer a Blind Hazard for Whales?
Last week I addressed the increasing use of drones for recreational and scientific observation of whales. However, privately operated drones are not the only remote control vehicles out there. The […]
Drones and Whales: Harming or Hurting?
Conservation is perpetually evolving, which is why those who work in the conservation field are forced to continually educate themselves about growing trends. One particular tool that has garnered a […]
Whales and Anti-submarine Warfare: Why the Navy needs Whales
Whales are incredibly intelligent creatures, yet they could care less about our politics. They have no interest in our wars. They care about finding food and making little baby whales. […]
A Brave New World for Defense Contractors?
Last month it was reported that employment at the five largest U.S. defense firms had dropped 14 percent from their peak in 2008, with an overall drop of 10 percent […]
The Deafening Death of Compromise
The media outlets of the world are filled with a constant barrage of information. They seek to present so much information, in fact, that often it can be hard to […]
The Deafening World Cup
I do not spend much time writing about my interests outside of marine mammal conservation. However, this week I would like to take some time to talk about soccer and […]
Deafening Attacks on Science
In response to a recent post, a commenter from the oil and gas industry attacked the credibility of scientific studies that suggest impacts to marine mammals from seismic surveys. I […]
Extinction’s Deafening Choice
Extinctions are a natural event in the animal kingdom. Species that have not developed the right traits will lose Darwin’s big game. They make room for those species that have […]
The Deafening Sound of Freedom 