Monaco Blue Initiative
Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego Director Tony Haymet was a participant in this global discussion.
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The Vancouver Sun
If you like oysters, it is time to pay attention to what is happening in Oregon. And even if you don’t like them, but care about the global food web that allows oysters to grow, reproduce and thrive, what’s happening Oregon should give you pause. (Opinion piece written by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego Director Tony Haymet)
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May 29, 2012 (online)
June 1, 2012 (print, A11, Issues & Ideas)

Korea JoongAng Daily
Deep-sea exploration could be the beginning of a reversal. It’s really not too strong to say our lives could depend on it. The deepest part of the ocean became a movie star in March when filmmaker James Cameron corkscrewed his way to the Challenger Deep, becoming only the third person in history to visit the Mariana Trench. (Opinion piece written by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego Director Tony Haymet)
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Washington Post
For three decades, filmmaker James Cameron has vividly rendered alien worlds. On Monday, ocean explorer James Cameron visited one: the bottom of the sea. “It’s time to finally open up this frontier to science,” Cameron said. But this kind of science is expensive, and government research budgets are stagnant or declining around the world, said Tony Haymet, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. He’s hopeful that Cameron’s adventure attracts more money — private or public — for exploring the deep. “We want to go there repeatedly for 10 years,” Haymet said. He sees exploring the deep as akin to exploring Mars: Robots will do most of the work, but humans’ journeys will fire the public imagination.
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New York Times
Nearly 36 years ago, our understanding of life was changed forever when scientists towing a remote vehicle through the depthsphotographed a cluster of clams on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean far beyond the reach of sunlight, where no life was supposed to be. The clams were nourished by geothermal ocean vents instead of energy from the sun. Since then, scientists and explorers from around the world have quietly and patiently discovered a foreign universe full of life here on Earth. The latest foray was on Sunday, when the director James Cameron descended nearly seven miles into a trough known as the Challenger Deep, the planet’s deepest known recess, off Guam. (Opinion piece written by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego Director Tony Haymet)
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World Ocean’s Summit
Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego Director Tony Haymet: We need a trust fund for ocean data. Speaking at the Economist World Oceans Summit in Singapore.
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Straits Times
The global oceans are not insured. They do not have high-priced legal representation and cannot sue. But their proxies are tourists, recreational sailors and boaters, surfers, seafood eaters and the fishing industry that supplies them, and myriad businesses small and large. They are also all of us who stand on the shore drawing inspiration from the oceans’ beauty. Continued ocean health is more than a feel-good objective. We all have a financial interest in letting nature “do its thing,” as new research is establishing. (Opinion piece written by Scripps Oceanography Director Tony Haymet)
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Okeanos
Dr. Tony Haymet, Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, gives many examples of how the ocean is worth more intact than irreversibly altered.  From helping to stabilize our climate by regulating heat, to providing medically useful bacteria, to supporting biodiversity, functioning marine ecosystems deliver services that can be evaluated in concrete financial terms.  These services have been undervalued in the past, where only resource extraction was used to calculate the ocean’s monetary worth.
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Mare — Appearing in the August 2011 issue
For millennia, people have only attributed value to the world’s oceans with a view to what can be gained from them. Now science and business finally are joining to document what it is worth in monetary terms to let the oceans remain intact as possible.
(Essay written by Scripps Oceanography Director Tony Haymet)
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The New York Times
SAN DIEGO — Renewable power developers, biofuel researchers, and clean technology entrepreneurs have flocked to this coastal city, making it a growing hub of energy-sector interests. The city is working to boost the growth of its energy companies. In 2007, San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders along with the University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego State University, and a few others launched an initiative called CleanTECH.
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San Diego Union-Tribune
Climate and marine researchers in La Jolla are retooling to remain at the forefront of oceanography, powered by nearly $250 million in new projects. A $56 million laboratory is going up at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and construction of a $26.5 million building is planned to start on the campus this summer. “This is a welcome expansion,” said Tony Haymet, director at Scripps. “We are a little under-accommodated at the moment.
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University of Sydney
Robots are revolutionising how we explore our oceans. Find out what this new era of ocean exploration means when Professor Tony Haymet, Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, USA, presents his free public talk ‘The Blue Future: The robotic exploration of the oceans’ as part of the Sydney Science Forum on Wednesday, April 20, 2011.
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La Jolla Light
The new director at California Sea Grant, James Eckman intends to “stay the course” at the marine research and education program based at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. “Jim brings a fine mix of stellar leadership skills and excellent research credentials that will enable Sea Grant to continue its upward momentum,” said Scripps Director Tony Haymet in a prepared statement. “We look forward to a new era with Jim at the helm.”
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Scientific American
The newly renamed Earth Networks said today it has partnered with Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego to launch the world’s largest greenhouse gas monitoring network. “We’ve been measuring CO2 in the atmosphere, the global average, at Mauna Loa and in a few other places for 53 years,” Scripps Director Tony Haymet said. “We’ve always wanted to somehow do this regionally. Our dream these last few years has been to replicate our scientific instruments and put them in enough locations that we could start to address these questions.”
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European Project on Ocean Acidification
Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego Director Tony Haymet discusses ocean acidification at COP-16 in Cancun Mexico.
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Los Angeles Times
The planet’s great communal resource provides protein sources and oxygen and is used for transportation, recreation, and inspiration. It’s time to put it at the center of the climate change discussion. (OpEd co-written by Scripps Director Tony Haymet and Scripps Researcher Andrew Dickson.)
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KQED News
The UN climate negotiations in Cancun may be the official attraction, but in many ways, there’s just as much happening at the “side events” here at COP16. While the side events allow regional governments and businesses to share ideas and celebrate what they consider their achievements, they’re also a venue for organizations and scientists to raise awareness about issues they think are not getting enough attention. Tony Haymet, director of Scripps Institution for Oceanography at UC San Diego was doing just that on Friday, across the lawn from the UN negotiations at a briefing about ocean acidification.
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Climate Change TV
Tony Haymet, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego explains how new science will make “top-down” verification of greenhouse gas emissions a reality in the next three years.
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