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The Ocean Science Division pursues a diverse portfolio of projects related to marine conservation. We develop and support scientific research, technical analyses and syntheses of scientific information that help to explain critical emerging issues. Read more about the Ocean Science Division.

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Meet the 2012 Pew Marine Fellows

Meet the 2012 Pew Marine Fellows

We are happy to introduce the six new Pew Marine Fellows! From Brazil, Cuba, France, Peru, and the United States, these individuals will receive funding to perform innovative marine research.

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260 Million Marine Fisheries Jobs Worldwide

260 Million Marine Fisheries Jobs Worldwide

A new study finds 260 million marine fisheries jobs worldwide, a number 1.75 times higher than previously estimated. The research accounted for artisanal and subsistence fishers, not traditionally included in estimates.

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A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

In his new book "The View From Lazy Point," marine scientist and 1991 Pew Marine Fellow Carl Safina explores the intertwined story of humanity and the natural world and how they require each other to benefit.

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Ocean Science Division

The Ocean Science Division includes several major initiatives aimed at improving our scientific knowledge about the problems faced by the world’s oceans and identifying the policies that could help solve them. We develop and support scientific research, technical analyses and syntheses of scientific information.
Sea Around Us

The Sea Around Us Project studies the effects of fishing on the world’s marine ecosystems. The project has assembled global databases of fisheries information, including catches, prices, distribution of commercial marine species and marine protected areas.
Lenfest Ocean Program

The Lenfest Ocean Program invests in scientific research on living marine ecosystems, specifically focusing on the environmental, economic and social impacts of fishing, fisheries management and aquaculture.
Pew Marine Fellows

The prestigious Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation is annually awarded to five outstanding global leaders or teams who are working to preserve and protect the world’s oceans and marine species. Designed to promote innovative work, the Pew Fellowship provides flexible support and encourages creative, interdisciplinary approaches to the preservation of marine systems.

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The View From Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
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- May 09, 2012, 11:30 EST
- Pew Marine Fellows, Ocean Science Division
Marine scientist Carl Safina recently won the prestigious Orion Book Award for “The View From Lazy Point, A Natural Year in an Unnatural World.” In the book, Safina explores the intertwined story of humanity and the natural world and how they require each other to benefit.More
Karen Eckert Featured in 'Wildlife Heroes' (Pew Marine Fellow, 1996)
- Media Coverage
- May 01, 2012, 10:45 EST
- Pew Marine Fellows
Karen Eckert, executive director of WIDECAST, is one of 40 leading conservationists to be featured in the book Wildlife Heroes, written by Julia Scardina and Jeff Flocken.More
Rainer Froese Publishes 'Evaluation and Legal Assessment of Certified Seafood' (Pew Marine Fellow, 2003)
- Media Coverage
- Apr 17, 2012, 12:55 EST
- Pew Marine Fellows
In a paper published in a recent issue of Marine Policy, Rainer Froese, project leader and coordinator of FishBase, and a colleague present a legal review of international treaties to derive sound definitions of overfishing.More
Editorial - Prince Herring: Glamourizing the Forage Fish
- Media Coverage
- Apr 14, 2012, 13:15 EST
- Pacific Fish Conservation Campaign, Atlantic Menhaden Campaign, Atlantic Herring Campaign, Lenfest Ocean Program
(Boston Globe) Are whales wonderful? Think herring. Are penguins cute? Think krill. Like hooking stripers? Think menhaden.More
Climate Change Goes to TOWNS: Jurgenne Primavera (Pew Marine Fellow, 2005)
- Media Coverage
- Apr 10, 2012, 11:55 EST
- Pew Marine Fellows
Jurgenne Primavera, scientist emerita at the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development, participated in an event sponsored by the Philippine organization, The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service (TOWNS), aimed at delivering reliable, significant, and practical information to local government units for better preparedness against natural calamities.More
Pew Marine Fellows Participate in Symposium about Interactions Between Corals and Algae
- Media Coverage
- Apr 05, 2012, 11:45 EST
- Pew Marine Fellows
Peter Mumby of the University of Queensland, Bob Steneck of the University of Maine, and Nancy Knowlton of the Smithsonian Institution each gave presentations at the Teasley Symposium held recently at the Georgia Institute of Technology.More
How Coral Bleaching Could Lead to Famine
- Media Coverage
- Apr 03, 2012, 11:05 EST
- Pew Marine Fellows, Ocean Science Division
In an article published recently on ClimateWire Tim McClanahan, a zoologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society, discusses what happened in Kenya during the spring of 1998 as being a wake-up call. Between March and July of that year, a rare climatological double whammy sent ocean temperatures spiking 1 to 2 degrees Celsius above the normal range for spring and summer.More
Carl Safina Discusses National Geographic’s Controversial New TV Show, Wicked Tuna (Pew Marine Fellow, 1991)
- Media Coverage
- Apr 02, 2012, 15:40 EST
- Pew Marine Fellows
In a commentary published in the 2 April 2012 issue of The Huffington Post, Carl Safina, president of the Blue Ocean Institute, discusses Nat Geo’s new TV Show, Wicked Tuna, which recently aired its first episode.More
Integrating Fisheries, Biodiversity, and Climate Change Objectives into Marine Protected Area Design in the Coral Triangle: Alan White (Pew Marine Fellow, 2001)
- Media Coverage
- Apr 01, 2012, 13:25 EST
- Pew Marine Fellows
Alan White, senior scientist at The Nature Conservancy, is one of three authors on a report that assesses the needs and interests of the six Coral Triangle Countries and Implementation Partners (governments, NGOs, scientists) regarding technical support required for integrating fisheries, biodiversity, and climate change objectives into resilient MPA network design at regional, national, subnational, and ecoregional scales in the Coral Triangle.More
Enric Sala Quoted in 'The MPA Math: How to Reach the 10 Percent Target for Global MPA Coverage' Pew Marine Fellow, 2006)
- Media Coverage
- Mar 31, 2012, 11:40 EST
- Pew Marine Fellows
An article published in the March/April 2012 issue of MPA News discusses what needs to be done to reach the UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD’s) 10 percent target for global MPA coverage.More
Interview with Patricia Majluf (Pew Marine Fellow, 2012)
- Media Coverage
- Mar 23, 2012, 10:55 EST
- Pew Marine Fellows
In a recent episode of La Hora, Patricia Majluf discusses her new role as vice minister of fisheries and fisheries management in Peru.More
Global Explorers Blog Features Les Kaufman and Guilherme Dutra (Pew Marine Fellows, 1990 & 2012)
- Media Coverage
- Mar 22, 2012, 12:55 EST
- Pew Marine Fellows
Les Kaufman, professor at Boston University and senior principle investigator at Conservation International, is in Brazil to study the unique marine habitats of the Abrolhos Shelf.More
Rashid Sumalia and Colleagues Publish New Study (Pew Marine Fellow, 2008)
- Media Coverage
- Mar 21, 2012, 15:40 EST
- Pew Marine Fellows
Climate change alone could reduce the economic value of key ocean services by up to $2 trillion a year by 2100, a new report shows—but so many threats are converging on the oceans at once, that a global, integrated approach is urgently needed.More
Fish Habitat: Why Rock the Boat?
- Media Coverage
- Mar 21, 2012, 12:00 EST
- Pew Marine Fellows
In a commentary published in the 21 March 2012 issue of The Globe and Mail, Rashid Sumaila, director of the Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia, writes “Recent news that retired fisheries biologist Otto Langer obtained documents revealing planned changes to the (Canadian) federal Fisheries Act has sent ripples through the fisheries research community.More
Steve Palumbi Leads Team of Researchers in Search of the World's Strongest Corals (Pew Marine Fellow, 1996)
- Media Coverage
- Mar 18, 2012, 13:50 EST
- Pew Marine Fellows
From March 18 to April 7, Steve Palumbi, director of Hopkins Marine Station at Stanford University, will lead a team of researchers to American Samoa, Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, and Aitutaki, a small island north of Rarotonga, in search of ways to better protect coral reefs from the devastating effects of increasing ocean temperature caused by climate change.More

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