Ocean Matters Teen Leader Social Media Takeover #4: Ellie
What have you been up to since attending the Ocean Matters program? In 2019 I attended the Ocean Matters Marine Ecology Expedition in Florida and made some of the best memories I’ve ever made in my life. Since then, I’ve started studying a degree in Marine Biology at the University of Plymouth in Britain’s Ocean […] Read More
Bow Seat Scholarship Announced for the Florida Marine Ecology Expedition, June 21-July 1, 2020
PLEASE NOTE: NEW DATES FOR THE FLORIDA MARINE EXPEDITION: June 21-July 1, 2020. Calling all creative Florida teens who want to make a splash on behalf of the world’s oceans! Ocean Matters is proud to announce a partnership with the prestigious Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs, which is generously providing one full scholarship ($3,500 value) […] Read More
Living for the Moments
by Kristen Beidelman, age 17, Holliston, Massachusetts This is Kristen Beidelman’s video of her experience on our 2017 Pacific Program at the Hawai’i Institute of Marine Biology on Oahu, Hawai’i. Let us tell you more about Ocean Matters and our marine conservation through service adventures. Read More
A Marine Conservation Compass
by Laura Parker Roerden Last summer’s cinema blockbuster Finding Dory has rightly set off alarms in the marine conservation community against an anticipated spike in blue tang sales for private aquaria, which would decimate wild coral reef populations. But there is a deeper conservation message, simmering just below the film’s surface (if you will pardon […] Read More
In Honor of World Oceans Day: Addressing the Invasive Lionfish in the Caribbean
by Andie Herrig (age 18) , Cheyenne Fauvel-Decrombecque (age 18), Reagan Sullivan (age 18) and Devon Sullivan (age 18) May 25, 2016, Utila, Honduras Today Ocean Matters set out to dive on a mission to hunt the invasive lionfish. Yesterday we were taught about how dangerous this predator is in the Caribbean. They disrupt food […] Read More
Founding Director Laura Parker Roerden Keynotes at Mote Marine Labs Tea for the Sea
Laura Parker Roerden, Ocean Matters Founding Director, keynoted last week at the venerated Mote Marine Lab in Sarasota’s for their annual Tea for the Sea representing Women Working for Oceans (W20) from Boston. Just two days prior to the event Mote’s beloved founder Dr. Eugenie Clark, who was hoped to attend the tea, passed away at 92. […] Read More
1, 2, 3. . . Seahorses!
by Laura Parker Roerden (May 16, 2014) Our Ocean Matters team is on our way to Honolulu to meet a group of high school-aged students from Florida to do a seahorse count project and help remove invasive mangroves. We will be at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology on Coconut Island, the island that was […] Read More
The Hope of the Commons: The World Ocean Summit, 2014
By Laura Parker Roerden I’m on a flight from Boston to San Francisco to attend the World Ocean Summit. Appropriately, I’m flying JetBlue, whose tag line I notice on another plane as we linger on the runway is “For the love of the blue.” The World Ocean Summit is co-sponsored by the Economist and National […] Read More