I spent an inspiring week in Monterey, California attending the BLUE Ocean Film Festival and Conservation Summit. In only its third session BLUE has already grown to be the premiere ocean event of its kind and collected the highest talent from the science, media, film-making, conservation, and public communities. In a week jammed by […]

Today kicks off November. The leaves are turning and temperatures around the states are creeping down from balmy summer nights to brisk winter mornings.  I, too, left summer behind on my roadtrip up the West coast from sunny southern California to the much damper Pacific Northwest. I’m checking in with you this week from Friday […]

More from Megan’s adventures:   While I was in Rhode Island I had the chance to spend several days at the Inner Space Center, part of the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography.  The ISC is the control home-base for ocean exploration occurring globally on the R/V Nautilus and NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer. As […]

Hi from the road! Thanks for your patience in hearing from me lately. I went off the blog radar for a few family events, but the past few weeks have been traveling in US Northeast. I’ve collected lots of new experience on and in the water and am excited to share that with you all. […]

Hey readers- Megan here- checking in from the scholar road!   I’ve spent years breathing compressed gas without ever fully understanding all that it takes to get that air jammed into a small bottle. During my visit to Southern California I stopped in at Nuvair compressors, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of air compressors, […]