We're still under the weight of this impression that the ocean is too big to fail, that the planet is too big to fail.

The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws came into place.

Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.

The ocean is dying, and we have no place to escape to if this experiment doesn't go in our favor.

If you make the choice to just go with the flow, that is a choice to make a difference in a negative way.

All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal.

Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.