October 23, 2008, Greencastle, Ind. - Wallace J. Nichols, a research associate at California Academy of Sciences and 1989 graduate of DePauw University, "plans to petition the Mexican government to create an ocean preserve limiting fishing in the waters off Playa San Lazaro, similar to the reserves in place off…
By Genevieve Bookwalter SANTA CRUZ -- Two Santa Cruz scientists have pinpointed a Baja California beach as the sandy graveyard of more dead sea turtles than anywhere else in the world, and they blame poor fishing practices for the deaths. Next week one of the researchers plans to visit Mexico…
Wallace J. Nichols (right) and Jeffrey Seminoff release an adult female hawksbill sea turtle with a satellite transmitter in El Salvador While fact-checking an upcoming story on the pros and cons of development in Baja California, Senior Researcher Meg Weaver stumbled upon the story of Adelita, a loggerhead turtle who…
Ocean Conservancy Scientist Wallace J. Nichols Joins Esteemed Environmental Thought Leaders in Documentary Film 'The 11th Hour' WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ocean Conservancy's Senior Research Scientist, Wallace J. Nichols, appears in Leonardo DiCaprio'senvironmental documentary film, "The 11th Hour," to inform the film's contenton the issues of climate change and…
July 30, 2008, Greencastle, Ind. - "Plastic does not biodegrade," writes Dan Haifley in California's Santa Cruz Sentinel. "It undergoes a solar-driven process called photodegradation," he reports in an article that includes a quote from Wallace J. Nichols, senior scientist at the Ocean Conservancy and 1989 graduate of DePauw University.…
