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

When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the 'National Geographic' covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people.

Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.

No creature on Earth ever has organized themselves in ways that we have, with the capacity to alter the nature of nature the way we have.

Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.

With care and protection, with safe havens in the ocean, there is still a good chance that we can turn things around.

The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.