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OCEAN EXEMPLARS are inspiring individuals, programs, curricula, schools, and organizations providing inspiring contributions to ocean knowledge and advocacy. Each exemplar is chosen for what could be considered "best practices" in ocean education, from classroom to reef. This month we highlight women working for the ocean; scientists, advocates, artists, engineers, mentors, and more. Smart, driven women working for the health of the ocean foster interest in and knowledge of marine affairs, science, and advocacy in the next generation of young women. Join us as we salute these women of the ocean! Learn more at worldoceanobservatory.org/content/ocean-exemplars
The ocean provides a global scape for travel. Beyond the cruise ship, there are other, more intimate, more environmentally sustainable ways to engage with the ocean. The World Ocean Observatory, in partnership with Borton Overseas, is providing a WORLD OCEAN TRAVEL catalog of voyaging opportunities. For every Citizens of the Ocean who contracts for these voyages, a contribution will be made to the World Ocean Observatory.
Learn more at worldoceanobservatory.org/content/world-ocean-travel
World Ocean Radio is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays on a wide range of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary people and projects, hosted by W2O Director Peter Neill. Available for RSS feed, podcast, as a download through PRX.org and the Pacifica Network, and for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide. In March we covered issues such as local recycling initiatives; how climate insurance works in a changing world; how our fresh water and food security future is linked to a healthy ocean; and offered a wrap up of the Earth Optimism Series, 24 episodes to highlight optimistic projects around the globe in the context of the upcoming Earth Optimism Summit in Washington, D.C. April 22-24.
WATER IS LIFE:
WORLD OCEAN JOURNAL, VOL. 3
World Ocean Journal is an e-magazine on ocean culture and solutions to today’s ocean issues. Each volume includes essays, interviews, art, exhibits, and performances profiling the vital impacts of the ocean on our lives. The most recent issue, Volume 3, is entitled "Water is Life" and contains a variety of essays about our relationships to the ocean and the fresh water cycle.
The Net Result: Our Evolving Fisheries History Conference
Penobscot Marine Museum
Searsport, Maine
The Search for Consensus: Sustaining the Fisheries with Peter Neill
April 8, 2017
Council of American Maritime Museums Conference
San Francisco, California
The Sea Connects All Things
April 19 - 21, 2017
Water History Conference of the International Water History Assoc.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
The Once and Future Ocean
June 14 - 16, 2017
FACEBOOK COMMUNITY GROWS TO MORE THAN 400,000!
W2O's Facebook page surpassed 400,000 likes this week! We are engaging hundreds of thousands of ocean lovers on all continents around the globe, sharing news, content, and causes from some of our favorite partners, and making a tangible difference for the future of the ocean and the planet. Are you a fan of our page? If you are not currently following us on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, please do so today! Thanks to those of you who are engaged and involved thus far. Why not take it one step further? Share our page with your ocean-loving friends: we'd love to hear from them too. Let's keep this movement growing.
GLOBAL VISIONS PARTNERSHIP
TO PRODUCE THE ONCE AND FUTURE OCEAN
In partnership with Global Visions, a film production company with proven experience in public television, World Ocean Observatory is set to embark on a multi-part television series devoted to water. The Once and Future Ocean is a six-part series that presents the story of the ocean as a globally integrated natural, economic, political, and social system. We must understand why the ocean matters, and it is our hope that this project will provide a new understanding of what we must do as individuals, communities, corporations, and nations to rethink water as a fundamental resource by which to sustain us into the 21st century and beyond.
MICROPLASTICS IN THE OCEAN:
A NEW CONTRIBUTION TO OUR OCEAN SPACE
AND A CALL FOR ENTRIES
Students from Animo High School in Lennox, California, in collaboration with students from Wakasa High School in Obama, Japan, teamed up to collect data on microplastics in waterways. Students and teachers presented their findings at the NSTA Conference in Los Angeles, CA earlier this year. The microplastics teams in California and Japan collected and shared data and communicated regularly via Skype, meetings which helped the students get to know one another, compare data, and share research techniques. New microplastics teams will be formed each year with the intention to broaden out the number of teams in both countries and to add new countries.
Educators and students: do you have a classroom ocean project that you would like to share on OUR OCEAN SPACE? Contact us at director@thew2o.net about uploading your Powerpoint presentations, photos, documents, and videos today!
Learn more at worldoceanobservatory.org/our-ocean-space
MARCH FOR SCIENCE, MARCH FOR CLIMATE
MARCH FOR SCIENCE
April 22, 2017
Washington, D.C. and in a city near you
MARCH FOR CLIMATE
April 29th, 2017
Washington, D.C. and in a city near you
Join the World Ocean Observatory in Washington D.C. or at a sister march around the country to stand up for science, for our communities and for the climate. The March for Science and The People's Climate March are two countrywide days of action and powerful mobilization to unite all movements.
GET INVOLVED:
Join the March for Science
Join the People's Climate March
#marchforscience
#climatemarch
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