Tina Tennessen
Profile
Tina Tennessen has a background in radio journalism and loves hearing a good story. She is a science writer, web editor, and a former radio producer. Before joining the Ocean Portal team as a web content and social media producer in early 2011, she held the position of Public Affairs Officer at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) in Edgewater, Md. While at SERC, Tina created and edited a news blog called Shorelines and publicized Smithsonian research and educational programs, generating press coverage and public attention for issues such as ocean acidification, hypoxia, invasive species, sea-level rise, shoreline development, and over-fishing. Tina grew up near five of Minnesota's 10,000 lakes and feels fortunate to be working among marine scientists who have dedicated their lives to understanding the underwater realm and the issues that affect it.
Collaborator Contributions
Shark-lover and Minnesota native Sophi Bromenshenkel poses with her hammerhead snow sculpture. The eight-year-old is one of...
A still from SOLA: Louisiana Water Stories, part of the 19th Annual Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital.
Offshore Peru, during the Eocene (~56-34 million years ago), ...
Largely due to overfishing, the Southern Bluefin Tuna is listed as "critically endangered." If...
Halsey Burgund (right) performing Ocean Voices before a live audience at the Museum of Science, Boston, in...
A still from The Changing Sea, part of the 19th Annual Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital.
It was a typical summer day in the Sant Ocean Hall at the National Museum of Natural History. Visitors were examining the ...
For centuries, the Baltic Sea has provided European flounder (Platichthys flesus...
"I was photographing this beautiful school of jacks when a diver slowly approached from beneath. I shifted my position to capture the moment he entered the ball of fish. Seconds later, he was completely immersed in the...
A strain of this green seaweed, native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans, escaped public and private...
Like other cephalopods, the common cuttlefish (Sepia officials) is no dummy. But while octopuses are quick to learn manual tasks like opening jars,...
