Articles and Blogs

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

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November 2024

Should Offshore Oil Rigs Be Turned into Artificial Reefs?

MONTECITO JOURNAL

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August 2022

Rigs to Reefs: The Sub-Surface Story of Oil Platform Decommissioning

KCET

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June 2022

Should California Turn Its Oil Rigs Into Reefs?

TRANSITION ECONOMIST

Article

May 2022

Orsted to trial offshore wind-to-reef initiative in Taiwan

SOCIETY OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERS

Article

November 2021

Rigs as Reefs: Reimagining our Energy Past as an Eco-Friendly Future

WORLD OIL MAGAZINE

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August 2021

Rigs as reefs: An opportunity for creative, sustainable resource management

LYRE MAGAZINE

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March 2020

Accomplished Alumnae: Environmental Innovators

FORBES MAGAZINE

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January 2018

Forbes 30 Under 30

AFAR

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November 2018

Some of the World’s Best New Dive Spots Are Under Oil Rigs

UC BERKELEY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

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January 2018

From the Ocean Floor to the Forbes List

MARINE TECHNOLOGY NEWS

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September 2016

Diving Deeper for Conservation

NEW YORK TIMES

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March 2016

Marine Life Thrives in Unlikely Place: Offshore Oil Rigs

ORION MAGAZINE

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October 2014

Concrete Progress: Rigs to Reefs

MISSION BLUE

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April 2014

Rigs to Reefs

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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August 2023

An oil rig that environmentalists love? Here’s the real story.

DECOMMISSIONING OF OFFSHORE & SUBSEA STRUCTURES

Conference Proceeding and Publication

May 2022

Conference Proceeding

DEEP OCEAN STEWARDSHIP INITIATIVE

Journal publication

July 2021

Deep-Sea Life

BBC

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January 2021

the new use for abandoned oil rigs

CONNECTICUT COLLEGE MAGAZINE

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June 2020

Water: The state of our oceans

NEXUS MEDIA

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April 2020

The Dazzling Ocean Reefs Hidden Beneath Offshore Oil Rigs

ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

Blog

August 2019

How Oil Rigs Can Help Preserve Marine Life

GOOGLE

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December 2018

Oil rigs alive: marine life abounds in unlikely places

TRITON UCSD ALUMNI MAGAZINE

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December 2016

Deep Dive Into Conservation

SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY

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September 2016

Scripps Alumnae Dive Deeper for Conservation

CONNECTICUT COLLEGE MAGAZINE

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February 2016

Oil and Water

LA JOLLA LIGHT

Newspaper article

July 2014

Oil Rigs to Living Reefs

THE HUFFINGTON POST

Highlighted science blog posts

April 2014

Looking to the Gulf as a Model for Future Decommissioning of Oil Rigs in California

THE HUFFINGTON POST

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May 2014

What Lies Beneath: Diving on Oil and Gas Platforms A&C

THE HUFFINGTON POST

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August 2014

The Realities of Decommissioning an Active, Offshore, Oil-producing... Skyscraper

THE HUFFINGTON POST

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July 2014

A Day Among Giants

PADI

Blog Post

April 2022

Discovering the Value of Rigs as Reefs

PROJECT MANAGEMENT.COM

Article and Interview

February 2021

An interview with Blue Latitudes' Emily Hazelwood and Amber Sparks

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE

Blog

April 2020

How San Diego’s High-Tech Fair brought me back to the basics

SEACOAST MAGAZINE

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November 2019

Rigs to reefs: Seacoast native aims to save marine life

SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE

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April 2019

The Gulf of Mexico’s Hottest Diving Spots Are Decommissioned Oil Rigs

SD METRO

MAGAZINE

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December 2016

Divers for Conservation

SCUBAPRO

Recognition - Deep Elite Ambassadors

June 2016

Deep Elite Ambassadors

THE ECONOMIST

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June 2014

Reefer Madness

THE HUFFINGTON POST

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April 2014

Exploring Beneath Offshore Oil and Gas Platform Gina

THE HUFFINGTON POST

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March 2014

Rigs to Reefs: Exploring the Future of Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms in California

THE HUFFINGTON POST

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October 2014

Upwells of Life and Oil; a Unique Partnership Between the Sea and Steel

SEA TECHNOLOGY

Editorial

New Life for Oil and Gas Platforms

THE HUFFINGTON POST

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April 2014

Gaining Perspective on the Opposition: The Other Side of Rigs to Reefs

THE HUFFINGTON POST

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May 2014

Production vs. Attraction: Marine Life On and Around Oil Platforms