SEA in the News

Good Signs from Greenland's Ice Sheet

NPR
By Richard Harris
April 20, 2008

SEA trustee, and WHOI scientist Dr. Sarah Das, W-129, co-led an expedition to Greenland to study glaciers.

Global Warming: The Greenland Factor

BusinessWeek
By John Carey
April 17, 2008

SEA trustee, and WHOI scientist Dr. Sarah Das, W-129, co-led an expedition to Greenland to study glaciers.

To save or savor? Overfishing leads to precarious status of Atlantic bluefin tuna

Stanford Report
By LOUIS BERGERON
February 27, 2008

Dr. Barbara Block, W-49, of Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station, has uncovered remarkable details about the journeys of bluefin tuna.

Dr. Barbara Block, W-49, and Dr. Andy Rosenberg, W-7

February 18, 2008

Dr. Barbara Block, W-49, of Stanford University and Dr. Andy Rosenberg, W-7, of University of New Hampshire spoke on a panel at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston. Their subject was improving management of the tuna fishery.

Royal Bermuda elects Richardson Commodore 2008-10

Sail World
By Talbot Wilson
November 22, 2007

SEA Overseer Ralph Richardson is the first black Bermudian to be appointed Commodore of the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club.

YOUR VIEW: Connecting the dots on global warming

SouthCoastToday.com
By John Bullard
November 15, 2007

Listening to the various campaigns for the presidency, it's almost impossible to pick up any sense that global warming is a top-tier issue. It's all about Iraq and immigration. It's not much better at the state or local level either. But today, there is a chance to change that in New Bedford.

Bullard happy to see water, water everywhere

Wicked Local Falmouth
By Craig Salters
October 24, 2007

Some people have a problem with their neighbors, a problem with their carry-on luggage or a problem with their long-distance provider. John Bullard has a problem with the planet.

SEA Semester

Rowan University

There’s wind in your hair, a crisp briny spray on your tongue and warm golden sun on your face. Next port of call: Bermuda, Barbados, possibly Tahiti. Sound like the best spring break ever? Think again. This isn’t spring break at all but a full semester. At sea. For 17 college credits! Welcome to SEA Semester.

Semester at sea turned out to be voyage of a lifetime

Charlotte Observer
By Chanda Blitch
August 15, 2007

Sailing a tall ship across an ocean could be the experience of a lifetime. Hickory's Robyn Hoskins had such an experience this summer. In July, Hoskins sailed from Honolulu to San Francisco on a traditional sailing ship, while earning a semester's college credit.

Sailing lessons - Zoology student attends school aboard tall ship

Times Herald
By SHANNON MURPHY
August 15, 2007

Alison Cole grew up on Lake Huron and the St. Clair River in Port Huron. But until this summer, she'd never learned how to sail. Cole, 21, didn't learn the sport locally on a small boat; instead, she spent a month on a tall ship in the Pacific Ocean.

Former Dean Jim Millinger Speaks

Maine Today
May 1, 2007

Historian Jim Millinger will present an illustrated lecture entitled, “Portland Harbor 100 Years Ago: Playing Historian with the Angell Collection,” on Thursday, May 24, 2007, at 7:00 P.M., at Portland Harbor Museum.

Life Lessons

Sailing Magazine
By Nick King
March 2007

Hands to strike the jib topsail!” The cry rings out on a blustery moonlit night in the mid-Pacific. We are under sail near the equator in the middle of the largest ocean in the world, and a squall is bearing down on our tall ship, the 135-foot Robert C. Seamans. Even if it is an ungodly 3 a.m., we need to lower some sail, and fast.

SEA Semester illustrates human impacts

DU Today - University of Denver
By Doug McPherson
March 20, 2007

Philosophy and religion have reputations for being deep subjects. But they’re not nearly as deep as the SEA Semester program.

Deep as in the ocean kind of deep.