Emily Frost with snorkel gear underwater.

Emily Frost

Emily Frost is the Ocean Portal Managing Editor. One of her favorite diving experiences ever was seeing green sea turtles munching away on sea grass in the water off of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Emily's interest in the ocean started much earlier, when she was doing science fair projects that studied the movement of zooplankton, tiny animals that are moved through the ocean by currents. She was able to study these movements of zooplankton again while sailing and researching on the Corwith Cramer, a 134 foot tall ship, through the Sea Education Association. Emily linked her degree in aquatic biology from the University of California Santa Barbara to marine policy when she received her Master's in Environmental Science and Management from the Bren School.

Emily loves communicating information about the ocean and its connections to humans to the public. She worked on outreach and communications for the Lenfest Ocean Program and the Ocean Science Division of the Pew Environment Group where her main focus was sharing scientific information with policymakers. Emily has also worked on various outreach and policy projects at the Woods Hole Science Aquarium, the National Aquarium and at the non-profit, Oceana. 

 

Contributed Content

Five Questions for Callum Roberts, Author and Professor

The Ocean of Life by Callum Roberts, US cover

Tracking volcanic rock to the shores of Belize

Carrie Bow Cay field station sits in the blue and turquoise waters of Belize.

Brian Skerry Voting Results

A manatee swims in Crystal River, Florida.

Marine Snow: A Staple of the Deep

Tiny "flakes" of marine snow.

Ocean Portal's Top Shark Resources

Caribbean reef sharks swim over a coral reef in the Bahamas.

CARTHE Drifters: Where does oil go when it is spilled?

One-meter-tall plastic drifters are released into the Gulf of Mexico in 2012. Over 300 of these drifters were released and their location information was sent to researchers every five minutes through GPS satellite.

Five Questions for Richard Carson, Natural Resource Economist

The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred on March 24, 1989 when an oil tanker grounded on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound. It spilled almost 11 million gallons of crude oil, which reached 1,300 miles of coastline. The spill's remote location, accessib

Coral Letters: A Message from the Corals of Curacao

Happy World Ocean Day!

Building a Better Dispersant

A C-130 Hercules from the Air Force Reserve Command deploys dispersant into the Gulf of Mexico May 5, 2010, as part of the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill response effort.

Is It Love? Why Some Ocean Animals (Sort Of) Mate For Life

An albatross soars over the ocean.

Five Questions With Alexis Temkin, Searching For Links Between Deepwater Horizon & Human Health

Alexis Temkin stands in marsh grass holding a reptile.

Five Questions with Uta Passow, How An Oil Spill Affects the Movement of Carbon In the Ocean

An underwater blizzard of oil, marine microbes, "sea snot", and algae.

Five Questions with Nancy Rabalais, Tracking Dead Zones In the Gulf

Nancy Rabalais smiling at the camera in a headshot.

Six Ways to See Ocean Ocean Bioluminescence

A glowing ocean surface.

Pops of Polychaete Color

Colorful scaleworm on a seastar

How Jellyfish Break Down Oil After a Spill

Jellyfish produce mucus, especially when stressed, which can interact with oil and break it down. This moon jellyfish is sloughing off mucus that has mixed with droplets of oil.

Three Ways You Can Use Genomics to Study Oil Spill Impacts

Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative researchers collect samples from a Pensacola Beach with oil layers in the sand. They use genomics to track how the communities of microbes change as they digest different components of oil after a spill.

Images: Conserving Endangered Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtles

A Kemp's Ridley sea turtle is returned to the ocean.

Washed Ashore: Art to Save the Sea

A sculpture of a giant octopus made of ocean debris

This Whale Sculpture Was Modeled After a Beached Orca

Wooden skeleton of an orca.

From Larvae to Adults – Finding Impacts of an Oil Spill on Mahi-Mahi

A school of mahi mahi.

There’s an App for That: Using Phones to Help Make Fishing Sustainable

An image of a cell phone displaying the Fish App.

Hay una aplicación para eso: usando teléfonos para contribuir a una pesca sostenible

Interfaz de usuario de la Fish App

Improving Grades for the Mesoamerican Reef

Fish swimming in waters of Bay Islands, Honduras

Tagging and Tracking Animals Underwater

Giant Pacific Manta Ray, Roca Partida Sea Mount, Revillagigedos Islands, Mexico

Celebrating the Ocean With New Museum Exhibits

The Sant Ocean Hall is the National Museum of Natural History's largest exhibit, providing visitors with a unique and breathtaking introduction to the majesty of the ocean

Worth the Investment: Ocean Real Estate Reveals Hidden Diversity

A "reef hotel" made of PVS layers on the seafloor.

Have We Hit The Chicken Little Point In Ocean Conservation?

With all the talk of ocean calamities are ocean scientists and communicators making the same mistake as Chicken Little?

Looking for Love? Online Dating Under the Sea

An albatross soars over the ocean.

Keeping An Ear Out For Whale Evolution

A 3-D reconstruction of the skull of a fin whale fetus.

Let's Get Our Hands Dirty This Women's History Month

A view of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill as seen from a NOAA research aircraft, June 2010.

Aquaculture Comes Full Circle

Trout cages in 30 feet of water.

Keeping Exploration Alive With Manned Submersibles

A submersible explores the deep reefs off of Curacao in the Caribbean.

In the Arctic, the Times, They Are a-Changin: You Can Pitch in to Understand How

This 1874 illustration of California gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) shows a group of individuals at the edge of their modern day range in the North Pacific Ocean, blocked from traveling further east into Arctic waters by thick ice barriers.

Do You Have The Answer? Sharing Big Data in the Gulf of Mexico

A screenshot of a GIF showing Bart Simpson exclaiming "I have the answer!"

What We're Reading - 9/22

A bluefin trevally swims in Hawaii’s Maro Coral Reef, part of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.

What We’re Reading 10/6

A thresher shark was killed after becoming stuck in a gillnet.

What We’re Reading 11/14

An estimated 5 tons of plastic are fed to albatross chicks each year at Midway Atoll.

Ocean Objects of Wonder

An unidentified earplug from the National Museum of Natural History collection.

What the Big Picture Can Teach Us About Tiny Ocean Creatures

A large, black instrument is hauled onto a ship's deck by researchers wearing hard hats and life vests.