{"id":16349,"date":"2020-05-08T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/?p=16349"},"modified":"2026-02-25T15:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:33:08","slug":"op-ed-blue-economy-red-ink-white-flag-restarting-americas-maritime-and-coastal-industries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/2020\/05\/08\/op-ed-blue-economy-red-ink-white-flag-restarting-americas-maritime-and-coastal-industries\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed: Blue Economy, Red Ink, White Flag? Restarting America&#8217;s Maritime and Coastal Industries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js_3r\" class=\"_5pbx userContent _3576\" data-testid=\"post_message\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1133 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2018\/01\/DSC_9526-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2018\/01\/DSC_9526-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2018\/01\/DSC_9526-280x187.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2018\/01\/DSC_9526-320x214.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2018\/01\/DSC_9526-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2018\/01\/DSC_9526.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In an op-ed for <em>The Hill<\/em>, Monmouth University President Emeritus\/UCI Ocean Policy Fellow Paul G. Gaffney II and Rockefeller University Professor Jesse Ausubel discuss COVID-19&#8217;s harsh impact on maritime industries. However, Gaffney and Ausubel write that the moment\u00a0 also presents the U.S. with an opportunity to &#8220;employ the currently underemployed oceanographic talent in offshore industries and universities as full partners to federal mapping, observation and exploration efforts.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/energy-environment\/496618-blue-economy-red-ink-white-flag-restarting-americas-maritime-and\">Read the full piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an op-ed for The Hill, Monmouth University President Emeritus\/UCI Ocean Policy Fellow Paul G. Gaffney II and Rockefeller University Professor Jesse Ausubel discuss COVID-19&#8217;s harsh impact on maritime industries. However, Gaffney and Ausubel write that the moment\u00a0 also presents the U.S. with an opportunity to &#8220;employ the currently underemployed oceanographic talent in offshore industries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 18:25:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28961,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16349\/revisions\/28961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}