Entries for date "2007"

ENN: Loggerhead sea turtles threatened by small-scale fishing operations

Washington, DC. Ocean Conservancy Scientist, Wallace J. Nichols and University of California-Santa Cruz researcher Hoyt Peckham found surprising results in a recent peer-reviewed loggerhead sea turtle study that Nichols and Peckham conducted over the course of 10 years. The full study will be published on October 17 in the online,…

PR Newswire: Research Shows Loggerhead Sea Turtles Threatened by Small-Scale Fishing Operations: Study Tracked Loggerheads During Migration from Baja California to Japan

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ocean Conservancy Scientist, Wallace J. Nichols and University of California (UC)-Santa Cruz researcher Hoyt Peckham found surprising results in a recent peer-reviewed loggerhead sea turtle study that Nichols and Peckham conducted over the course of 10 years. The full study will be released on October…

KPFA Coyote Network News: Love for the Ocean

Listen to: Love for the Ocean Caroline is joined by long-time ally, Marine Acoustician Michael Stocker www.ocr.org and senior scientist at the Ocean Conservancy, ardent ocean activist Wallace J. Nichols www.wallacejnichols.org that our willingness and wonder to work with the seas may eclipse our rudeness as a species, at this…

DePauw News: Saving Our Ocean Planet is Critical, Wallace J. Nichols '89 Tells DePauw Discourse

October 5, 2007, Greencastle, Ind. - [Download Audio: "An Ocean Planet" - 422kb] "Our planet is an ocean planet, period," exclaimed Wallace J. Nichols, senior researcher for Ocean Conservancy and 1989 graduate of DePauw University, this morning at DePauw Discourse 2007: Sustainability and Global Citizenship. A scientist responsible for pioneering…

DePauw News: '11th Hour' film screening encourages change

Though the first half of Leonardo DiCaprio's "The 11th Hour" left students feeling dismal about the state of the environment, the second act was redeeming.Wallace J. Nichols '89 warned the audience of the film's power before the screening."Do not leave halfway through, you may not survive," Nichols said. "It's really…