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PBS “Nature” 2010-11 Premiere Features The Ocean Foundation’s Bretos and Guggenheim in Cuba

December 22, 2010 By Ocean Doctor

Cuba: The Accidental Eden features The Ocean Foundation's Fernando M. Bretos and David E. Guggenheim

With the episode, “Cuba: The Accidental Eden,” the 2010-11 season premiere of the acclaimed PBS series, “Nature” features The Ocean Foundation’s own Fernando M. Bretos and David E. Guggenheim, along with other Cuban and American colleagues. Bretos and Guggenheim have worked together in Cuba for more than a decade and head up The Ocean Foundation’s “Cuba Marine Research and Conservation Program. ” Their work includes joint research expeditions in Cuba’s Gulf of Mexico waters and a major sea turtle conservation project with the University of Havana’s Center for Marine Research (Centro de Investigaciones Marinas). The episode can be viewed in its entirety online (see below) and is now available on DVD and Blu-ray disc.

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Filed Under: Cuba, Cuba Research & Conservation, Featured, News & Announcements Tagged With: Centro de Investigaciones Marinas, Cuba, David E. Guggenheim, Fernando Bretos, partisan pictures, PBS, sea turtles, University of Havana

Jacques Cousteau, Fidel Castro and Cuba’s Undying Passion for the Sea

December 6, 2010 By Ocean Doctor

December 6, 2010: Join The Ocean Doctor, along with Ocean Foundation Research Fellow, Fernando Bretos, on a field trip to Havana to visit with Cuba’s next-generation of marine scientists at the University of Havana’s Center for Marine Research (Centro de Investigaciones Marinas). We visit with the Center’s new director, Dr. Jorge A. Angulo Valdés. We also visit with Dr. Julia Azanza Ricardo who directs the Center’s unique sea turtle research and conservation program in the wilds of Guanahacabibes Biosphere Reserve on Cuba’s western tip. For these two and their colleagues, their passion for the sea runs deep, thanks in large part to two influential people in their lives: Jacques Cousteau and Fidel Castro.

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Filed Under: Cuba, Cuba Research & Conservation, Podcast Tagged With: Center for Marine Research, Centro de Investigaciones Marinas, CIM, Cuba, Dr. Jorge A. Angulo Valdés, Dra. Julia Azanza Ricardo, Dra. Maria Elena Ibarra, Fernando Bretos, Fidel Castro, florida, Guanahacabibes, Havana, Jacques Cousteau, Mexico, sea turtles, The Ocean Foundation, Trinational Initiative, Trinational Initiative for Marine Research & Conservation in the Gulf of Mexico & Western Caribbean, University of Havana

The Ocean Revolution is Underway!

July 19, 2010 By Ocean Doctor

July 19, 2010: We talk with OceanRevolution founder and co-director, Dr. Wallace “J” Nichols, just back from the Gulf region to hear his firsthand report about the BP oil spill disaster. Also, more on the controversial use of chemical dispersants on the BP oil spill. And revealed this week, the secret to the shark-taming powers of the Cuban “Shark Whisperer.”

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Historic Meeting Unites Cuba and the U.S., Taking Collaboration on Ocean Research & Conservation to a New Level

November 6, 2007 By Ocean Doctor

Cubans and Americans display the flags of both nations following a historic 2-day meeting in CancÃºn, MÃ©xico on collaboration in marine science & conservation

CANCÃšN, MÃ©xico — In a historic meeting co-organized and led by the Washington, DC-based Center for International Policy and the Harte Research Institute (HRI) for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi,a group of 15 Cubans and 15 Americans met in CancÃºn, Mexico to develop a plan for taking joint marine research and conservation activities between the U.S. and Cuba to a new level. Collaboration between U.S. and Cuban scientists has been exceedingly difficult because of the decades-old U.S. embargo, even though research is a permitted activity and U.S. scientists are allowed to travel to Cuba. Complicated logistics and ever-changing politics have prevented all but a few U.S. institutions from successful collaborative projects in Cuba. [Read more...]