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SkyTruth Founder John Amos to Speak in Shepherdstown
Did you see the recent front page article in the Washington Post that featured SkyTruth’s work tracking a 14-year oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? Why is Shepherdstown’s own SkyTruth featured so often in the international press? Come find out! Founder John Amos and key staff members Christian Thomas and Ry Covington will talk […]
New Milestones for Fisheries Transparency in Indonesia and Peru
Until recently public tracking of fishing activity has been almost entirely dependent on AIS (Automatic Identification System) data, an open system for vessel tracking and collision avoidance. It’s exciting to see this changing with the success of Global Fishing Watch’s Transparency Program. This program began when Indonesia’s fisheries minister Susi Pudjiastuti took the unprecedented step […]
Tracking the Chinese Squid Fleet in the South Pacific – Part 1: Voyage to the Galapagos
When monitoring vessel activity on the vast scale of the world’s oceans at SkyTruth we know we’re almost always dealing with incomplete information. For example, only some vessels transmit their locations at sea via the Automatic Identification System (AIS), while others may only come up in a particular government’s private Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) or […]
Video Clips of John at CBUC
Check out these standup interviews John had with Globo News when he presented at the Brazilian Congress on Protected Areas (CBUC) in August. How can we illustrate the problem of overfishing from space? How the Silver Sea 2 fishing vessel was caught with slaves on board
