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Meet the New MCAF Fellows for 2023
December 5, 2022
These five ocean conservation leaders are joining the MCAF Fellows Program in 2023.
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MCAF
Protecting the Giant Bottom-Dwellers of Karimunjawa National Park
March 23, 2023
MCAF fellow Faqih Akbar Alghozali shares about their work to study and protect giant guitarfish in Indonesia's Karimunjawa National Park....Read More
MCAF
Marine Conservation Action Fund (MCAF) 2022 Year in Review
March 3, 2023
Take a look back at some of the highlights of the year for the New England Aquarium's Marine Conservation Action Fund....Read More
Sea Turtles
Tracking Loggerhead Sea Turtles with Acoustic Telemetry
February 23, 2023
In 2021 and 2022, New England Aquarium researchers surgically implanted acoustic tags in loggerhead sea turtles for the very first time. See what they learned from tracking the turtles' movements....Read More
MCAF
Cada solución, cuenta: El intercambio de conocimiento entre comunidades pesqueras puede fortalecer la resiliencia al cambio climático
February 3, 2023
La beneficaria de MCAF, Niza Contreras Liedtke Niza Contreras, tiene doble ciudadanía estadounidense y mexicana. Conozca su trabajo comunitario para abordar la gestión de los recursos pesqueros....Read More
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Cada solución, Cuenta: Knowledge Sharing Between Fishing Communities Can Strengthen Climate Resilience
February 3, 2023
MCAF grantee Niza Contreras Liedtke shares what she's learned in her community-based work to address fisheries resource management. ...Read More
Sea Turtles
What Happens After a Sea Turtle Is Disentangled?
December 29, 2022
Learn what happens during and after teams disentangle a leatherback turtle....Read More
Right Whales
Meet the Newly Named Right Whales of 2022
December 14, 2022
Meet the twenty newly named right whales for 2022 and learn more about them, including the reasoning behind their names....Read More
Policy
Environmental Justice Outcomes Take Center Stage at COP27
December 5, 2022
We worked with COP27 student delegate, Logan Keen, as he traveled to Egypt to learn more about the role of the ocean in the international climate negotiations....Read More
Field Work
Fall Aerial Survey Sightings
November 16, 2022
As summer turns into fall, our aerial survey team observes changes in their sightings of marine animals in New England waters....Read More
Right Whales
Facing Human-Caused Threats, Right Whales’ Downward Trend Continues
October 24, 2022
Human-caused threats have resulted in the right whale population trending downard for more than a decade....Read More
Field Work
What We’ve Learned After Three Decades in the Dry Tortugas
October 17, 2022
Dr. Nick Whitney shares a brief history of research conducted on a nurse shark breeding ground in the Dry Tortugas and what the science team has learned over the last 30 years....Read More
MCAF
Saving Caribbean Sawfish in Cuba
October 13, 2022
With The Ocean Foundation, Cuban scientists Fabián Pina, an MCAF grantee, and Tamara Figueredo are working to protect sawfish in Cuba....Read More
Field Work
Reflections on My First Survey in the Marine National Monument
August 23, 2022
New England Aquarium flies 12th aerial survey of marine Monument, bringing a new team member along for the ride....Read More
MCAF
Using the Morelet’s Crocodile as a Sentinel Species to Save Belize’s New River
August 4, 2022
MCAF grantee Jonathan Triminio works with the Crocodile Research Coalition to protect the New River in Belize....Read More