This weekend we've been looking back on one of OCEARCH's most famous sharks, Mary Lee.

"When we tagged Mary Lee and she proceeded to travel up and down the east coast and people tracked her and fell in love with her, it created interest in OCEARCH at a radical scale. Mary Lee saved OCEARCH. Everything that we have learned since then likely would have never occurred without her ...

Andromache is still hanging out in the Bay of Fundy! She’s been swimming in this region for the past 2 weeks.

We met this female sub-adult white shark in August 2020 off Cape Cod, MA and she’s traveled over 10,500 miles since!

Track Andromache on the OCEARCH Global Shark Tracker: https://www.ocearch.org/tracker/detail/andromache

📸: Chris Ross
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News | August 29, 2022

New Coalition Aims To End Plastic Pollution By 2040

Norway and Rwanda will chair a new 20-country coalition that aims to end plastic pollution by 2040.

The High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution wants to develop a global treaty in the next two years, with the aim of restraining plastic consumption and production to sustainable ...

News | August 10, 2022

Water Resources To Become Less Predictable With Climate Change

Declining snowpack will cause more variability in runoff, streamflow

Water resources will fluctuate increasingly and become more and more difficult to predict in snow-dominated regions across the Northern Hemisphere by later this century, according to a comprehensive new climate change study ...

July 29, 2022

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When sharks are present in an ecosystem it is a positive sign of ocean health and abundance. As apex predators with diverse prey, sharks help prevent one species from monopolizing in a region, which then allows the overall diversity within an ecosystem to increase. Studies of marine areas with and without apex predators show ...