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
Participate in the Last Straw Challenge!
Ocean Matters is encouraging students and the grownups in their lives to pressure their schools to stop using plastic straws at lunch. This one action, can have significant ripples in saving seabirds and other marine life from mounting plastic marine debris. Take the Last Straw Challenge here. Read More
Ocean Matters Launches History of Whaling Project
by Laura Parker Roerden Whaling might be a vestige of our past, but it has left echoes that can be felt to this day. Ocean Matters, in partnership with LePage-Miller, Inc., is launching a Digital Humanities research program on the history of whaling. Three high schools in areas with rich whaling histories: Lahaina, HI, the East […] Read More
The Journey
by Jessie Williams As we continue further into our trip on Oahu with Ocean Matters, the journey never stops. On Wednesday, we visited the Marine Mammal’s Pen, which featured Kina, the only false killer whale in captivity. Kina was a delight to meet and showed her broad array of amazing tricks. We also got to […] 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
Ocean Matters is Going to Hawaii!
Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii This coming May 2014, Ocean Matters will be piloting a new week-long project with the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa on Coconut Island. Working in Hawaii will round out our offerings, giving students a wide array of choices for studying […] Read More
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