About Teresa Carey

I wanted to sleep in a treehouse for my honeymoon. But the best treehouses were on the Pacific coast, and I was 3,000 miles away. I needed a creative way to get there, so I entered the Blue Ocean Film Festival YouTube contest. I never thought I’d actually win VIP passes to the Monterey Bay event, but I did! As a professional mariner and science student, I already loved stories about the sea. I expected a relaxing week watching films. Instead, I met ocean movers and shakers like Wallace J. Nichols and Sylvia Earle. I had finally found my people. Their energy resonated with me, and I absorbed it all. Data and statistics may inform us, but people and passions effect change. I hope my work will inspire people to come together and create solutions.

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Scientists measure and tag a grouper before returning it to the water. Credit: Teresa L. Carey

Bringing Back the Nassau Grouper

By Teresa Carey on 12 January, 2017

When I first saw the acoustic tag, I couldn’t imagine inserting it under fish’s skin. It was the size and shape of the SPF 45 ChapStick that was melting in my pocket. The tag would soon be surgically implanted into a Nassau grouper, a medium-sized fish, but Dr. Rick Nemeth, and his team at University…

Sea Snails on Acid

By Teresa Carey on 18 November, 2016

Twice a day the rocky Pacific coast traps seawater in pools as the tide rolls in and out. Compared to the ocean, the puddles are so small and innocuous that it seems nothing momentous could possibly be happening there, but there is. It turns out tiny black turban snails may be getting a buzz from…

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