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
A still from The Changing Sea, part of the 19th Annual Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's...
Watch a recorded webcast about the latest efforts in Greece to study and save the...
An invasive strain of the plant Phragmites australis dominates this Chesapeake Bay wetland. The plant can easily grow up to 3 meters (9.8 feet...
Smithsonian researchers collected a cave basslet (Liopropoma mowbrayi) from the deep reefs of ...
Even when viewed from space, Hurricane Irene looks sizable. When a NASA satellite took this image on August 23, 2011 the storm was 410 miles in diameter, with clouds covering eastern Cuba. Irene is the first Atlantic...
Killer whales (Orcinus orca) have something in common with humans: early menopause. Read Smithsonian marine scientist ...
Rachel Caauwe was one of a dozen artists who spent a recent Saturday sketching specimens from the Smithsonian's musky-scented marine mammal collection...
For centuries, the Baltic Sea has provided European flounder (Platichthys flesus...
A rainbow of tropical fish hovers over a coral head near the Pearl and Hermes Atoll, part of the ...
A still from, Voyage of the Plastiki, part of the 19th Annual Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital.