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, …

By David Bloom Ann Carpenter of Braid Theory is a frequent presence at AltaSea. Now she’s organized a one-day conference, IGNITE22, to bring together entrepreneurs, investors and researchers, partly in the hope that they’ll want to be a part of …

By David Bloom Vipe Desai didn’t know how apt the name, Rising Tide Summit, for his new ocean-focused conference would be until he put it out there. But now, like the conference name, the gathering’s momentum is rising, and fast.  …

AltaSea is preparing to say bon voyage to the support crew and ship of The Longest Swim, Ben Lecomte’s audacious project to swim across the Pacific this summer to raise awareness of plastics pollution clogging and killing the ocean. Along …

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 …