ABIGAIL BARROWS JOINS W2O
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
The W2O is pleased to welcome Abigail Barrows to our Board of Trustees. Abby grew up in Stonington, Maine. Her passion for travel brought her to the University of Tasmania, where she earned a BSc in Zoology. She has traveled the Southern Oceans and South Pacific by boat, trekked the Himalaya, explored the Middle East, researched sea turtles and big cats in South and Central America, dived Mediterranean wrecks, and worked aboard schooners and lobster boats in the Gulf of Maine. On her travels, she saw one thing in common everywhere: plastic pollution. Abby has directed global microplastic pollution research since 2013, developing the most diverse and largest known dataset available to date. She has published multiple papers on the subject and obtained her Master’s degree from College of the Atlantic in 2018. When not studying plastics, you can find her out on her oyster farm, Long Cove Sea Farm in Deer Isle, Maine. We welcome her expertise, advocacy and enthusiasm, and we look forward to doing great things together for the future of the ocean.
MICHAEL McNICHOLAS JOINS W2O
ADVISORY BOARD
Michael McNichols has joined the W2O as our Seafood Sustainability advisor. He founded Culinary Collaborations LLC (CCL) in 2016 with the goal of bringing clean, all-natural and traceable sushi ingredients to a broad audience across North America. Today CCL is a major supplier throughout much of North America. In 2008 Michael joined Uoriki Company Limited of Tokyo and is recognized as one of the foremost sushi resource experts in the U.S. Please join us in welcoming him to our team!
AQUA / TERRA:
REFLECTIONS ON THE WORLD OCEAN
We are pleased to offer a sneak peak into a new book by W2O Director Peter Neill, due for release early next year. Aqua/Terra: Reflections on the World Ocean asks for one positive outcome from its reading: the transformation of each of the nouns in this thematic passage into verbs: Confront. Connect. Revolve. Reflect. In such connected, determined action lies the nascent power of a global community of Citizens of the Ocean, a force for the future as deep, wide, and dynamic as the ocean itself. Aqua/Terra represents a fourth installment in the World Ocean Publications series.
SALTWATER CLASSROOM
Ocean Education Through Global Collaboration
We are pleased to introduce Saltwater Classroom, the good people who share desk space with us at the New England Ocean Cluster on Portland's waterfront. Saltwater Classroom is aiming to solve pressing ocean issues by instilling an ethic of ocean stewardship in today's youth through the transformative power of education. Their work includes week-long workshops, field missions, hands-on experiments and creative projects. While W2O has yet to move our operations to Portland's Waterfront in the Cluster Hús, we look forward to future collaboration with this passionate group.
Follow their work:
Facebook: @SaltH2OClassroom
Instagram: @SaltWaterClassroom
Twitter: @SaltWaterClass
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