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Our chief impact officer, Mitchelle De Leon, reflects on his experience attending his fourth Our Ocean Conference representing SkyTruth, as well as the growth and changes he’s seen in the organization and our work over that time.

From USAID to SkyTruth’s CTO — A Q&A with Karl Wurster

Analyze the impacts of mountaintop mining in Central Appalachia with new geospatial data

Driven by firsthand climate change impacts, Olivia Zhang turns geospatial data into action for environmental conservation “I’m like a moth to a flame when it comes to GIS.” That’s how Olivia Zhang …

New feature surfaces recent oil slicks to Cerulean users with exceptional timeliness We are updating Cerulean, our tool for tracking global marine oil pollution, to enhance support for users tracki…

Tool allows convenient interaction with an expanding range of data products We’ve released an API that makes access to our mountaintop mining data more user-friendly. Providing this data through an…

Supporting efforts to use Monitor as a platform for protected area managers Last month, we were pleased to be invited to participate in a workshop on satellite imagery held by SERNANP’s Subdirector…

Apoyando los esfuerzos para utilizar Monitor como una plataforma para los gestores de áreas protegidas El mes pasado, nos complació ser invitados a participar en un taller sobre imágenes satelitale…

Cerulean’s latest feature helps ensure more accurate investigation of oil pollution and supports better decision-making for ocean monitoring and enforcement

Aemon Malone is a Senior Software Engineer at SkyTruth, leading development for Cerulean His path to environmental tech wound through cybersecurity boardrooms and NPR’s overnight newsroom bef…

Combining AI detection with expert validation to provide greater clarity on sources most likely responsible We launched Cerulean to put the power of satellite-based pollution monitoring directly in…

How POLITICO Used Cerulean to Expose Oil Pollution from Sanctioned Tankers A new investigation by POLITICO and SourceMaterial using SkyTruth’s Cerulean oil slick monitoring platform found tha…

The LNG industry claims it’s better for the environment than other fossil fuels, but is that true? SkyTruth set out to make data about the Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) supply chain publicly ac…

Will Lytle is a Senior Software Engineer at SkyTruth, where he transforms complex environmental data into accessible web applications. But his path to tech was anything but conventional — involving…

As countries worldwide rally to protect 30% of land by 2030, the question isn’t just how much land is protected, but how well it’s protected. Are these “protected” areas tru…

Finding methane plumes in the vast ocean using satellite innovation In July 2025, we ran a focused four week Research and Development (R&D) sprint to test how open-access satellite imagery cou…

As global leaders, scientists, Indigenous leaders, NGOs, and advocates gathered in Nice, France for the 2025 UN Ocean Conference (UNOC) a few weeks ago, one message resonated above all: the clock i…

SkyTruth recently launched a new feature in Cerulean that identifies oil pollution from “dark vessels” — ships that don’t broadcast their location via Automatic Identificati…

The Liberian-flagged tanker NEW SUNRISE is currently broadcasting a false location in the Persian Gulf after leaving a trail of oily waste and unanswered questions regarding its activities in Europ…

Recent advancements in Cerulean’s infrastructure association algorithms are bringing us closer than ever to accurately identifying stationary polluters at sea. A primary goal of SkyTruth’s gl…

Mapping the global fleet of floating oil and gas vessels known as FxOs may help us better understand the overall impact of these oftentimes overlooked structures. From Homer’s “wine-dark sea” to Ca…

Aerial LiDAR allows us to remotely assess the 3D structure of vegetation at a high level of detail and accuracy. This depth of analysis is especially valuable for places like Central Appalachia. Wh…

When it comes to better understanding the impact of emissions from offshore oil and gas storage and production, there are several factors that must be accounted for. On a hot Louisiana morning in 2…

I have long assumed that the carbon footprint associated with SkyTruth’s work is more than justified by the positive impacts that result from it. But recently I’ve been wondering, shouldn’t we be a…