A monthly round-up of news and trends important to the AltaSea community. MARINE SCIENCE Ocean plastic could triple in decade (BBC News) The amount of plastic in the ocean is set to triple in a decade unless litter is curbed, …

A monthly round-up of news and trends important to the AltaSea community. MARINE SCIENCE First-annual sea-level report cards (Science News) Researchers at William & Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science are launching new web-based “report cards” to monitor and forecast …

A monthly round-up of news and trends important to the AltaSea community. MARINE SCIENCE Undersea cruise: Humanity’s first visit to the Antarctic seafloor finds it ‘carpeted with life’ (USA Today) A visit from a Greenpeace submarine to one of the …

AltaSea Readies Next Stage of Growth, Names McOsker CEO Prominent Los Angeles attorney and civic leader Tim McOsker has been named as AltaSea’s CEO by the Board of Trustees, effective February 1, 2018. McOsker’s appointment brings to the organization a …

A monthly round-up of news and trends important to the AltaSea community. MARINE SCIENCE Use the ocean without using it all up (The Korea Herald) The Trump administration announced last week that it would open 90 percent of our coastal …