Oceans
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Humans depend on the ocean to help stabilize the climate, provide food and support livelihoods.
Stanford Woods Institute researchers are finding ways to meet challenges facing ocean health by applying the best available science and policy expertise to ocean governance, ecosystem resilience, climate change impacts such as ocean acidification and sea level rise and other stressors to marine environments.
Research Centers and Programs
Center for Ocean Solutions »
The Center for Ocean Solutions (COS) is a collaboration among Stanford University (through the Stanford Woods Institute and the Hopkins Marine Station), the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). COS develops knowledge to solve ocean challenges.
Natural Capital Project »
The Natural Capital Project melds world-class research on environmental economics with influential conservation programs. The center’s Integrated Valuation of Environmental Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST) software suite enables decision-makers to quantify nature’s values, assess tradeoffs associated with alternative land- and water-use choices and integrate conservation and human development into land- and...
Other Research Centers and Programs
Environmental Venture Projects
News & Press Releases
Bold Solutions for Marine Conservation »
Two-thirds of high seas fisheries are depleted or overfished, but technology and political will can reverse the downward trend and move toward sustainability.
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Media Coverage
Revealed: The Ocean's Tiniest Life at the Bottom of the Food Chain »
Senior Fellow, by courtesy, Steve Palumbi (Biology) discusses the importance of the trillions of microorganisms in the ocean such as plankton, bacteria, krill, viruses, protists and archaea are critical to life on earth.
By Christopher Joyce,
