Collaborations
Thank you for supporting 100 BLUE ANGELS it’s the way I can work and collaborate with so many great people and organizations. I've listed some of them below, so you can get an idea of how seriously we take building relationships and sharing as part of our work.
“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” -Charles Darwin
“[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.” -Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
"There is no limit to what one can do so long as one does not care a straw who gets the credit for it."
"Collaborate or die."
I started the BMP with a bag of marbles at an event in the New England Aquarium’s IMAX theater. The idea? Pass a blue marble through every person's hand on earth, with a simple message of gratitude along with it. That's bold. But since we launched back in 2009, millions around the world have hopped on board this blue bandwagon.
BLUEMiND: The MInd & Ocean Initiative
BLUEMiND is a fast growing initiative that links ocean exploration, restoration and water conservation with neuroscience. This involves an annual summit, smaller gatherings, research collaborations and communications campaigns.
California Academy of Sciences
I've been a Research Associate in the Department of Herpetology, my academic home, since 1999. The Academy is the oldest research institution in California located in Golden Gate Park in a fantastic state of the art green building. I like it.
I served on Coastwalk’s advisory board. Coastwalk is a California-wide non-profit organization that advocates for coastal protection and access via the California Coastal Trail and offers fun and educational walking tours of the California coast for people of all ages. In summer 2003 ten of us trekked 1,200 miles from Oregon to Mexico along the Coastal Trail.
I was a Principal Investigator on Project GLOBAL, a 3 year an assessment of the world’s bycatch of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and named a Duke University Marine Lab Distinguished Conservation Scholar in 2006. I did my Masters work at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment.
I'm on Earthwatch's advisory board as well as a former Principal Investigator on Earthwatch sea turtle research projects in Baja California Sur, Mexico. I’ve worked with Earthwatch in many ways for the past two decades. If you’re looking for an intelligent, meaningful may to spend your next vacation, you’ve found it.
Proud to be one of the founding fathers of EcoDads. A Next-Generation Parenting Movement that is: Fixing Education, Creating a New Economy, and Producing Environmental Stewards. Join us!
Are you an EcoDaredevil? You should be!
One of the speaker's bureaus I work with to help amplify our blue message!
Environmental Visual Communications Program
I'm a Science Advisor for the Environmental Visual Communication Program. Positioned at the Convergence of Science and Art, the Environmental Visual Communication program is designed to fill a recognized void of individuals who possess a blend of environmental science skills and the ability to effectively communicate to a variety of audiences. With a focus on strategic messaging and technical savvy, students will learn to use photography, videography, multimedia, and design principles to bridge environmental competencies with thoughtful communication through diverse media channels. Fleming College is delivering this Environmental Visual Communication Ontario College Graduate Certificate program in a truly unique learning environment – at the Royal Ontario Museum in downtown Toronto, Canada.
I am the co-founder and an advisor to this two decade strong grassroots sea turtle conservation network that now includes thousands of people in more than 50 coastal communities throughout Mexico.
ICAPO is a network of individuals and organizations, ranging from local fishermen to conservationists to heads of government, with one thing in common; a desire to learn about and save hawksbill turtles in the eastern Pacific Ocean. ICAPO was officially formed in June of 2008 at the 'First Workshop of the Hawksbill Turtle in the Eastern Pacific" held in Los Cobanos, El Salvador.
IFF is most fascinating. I serve as an advisor to IFF on the Hyperbolic Coral Reef project. You’ll love it and you’ll love them.
I serve on the advisory bord for the IFTF, based on Palo Alto, California. The Institute for the Future (IFTF) is an independent nonprofit research group. We work with organizations of all kinds to help them make better, more informed decisions about the future. We provide the foresight to create insights that lead to action. We bring a combination of tools, methodologies, and a deep understanding of emerging trends and discontinuities to our work with companies, foundations, and government agencies. We take an explicitly global approach to strategic planning, linking macro trends to local issues in such areas as: Work and daily life, Technology and society, Health and health care, Global business trends, Changing consumer society.
International Sea Turtle Society
I served as the 2008 President of the ISTS and on the Board of Directors, through 2010.
IUCN Marine Turtle Specialists Group
I served as the Eatern Pacific Region Vice Chair for many years and remain an active member. The IUCN Marine Turtle Specialist Group (MTSG) is part of the Species Survival Commission (SSC) of IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Comprised of more than 230 expert members in over 80 countries, the MTSG is the global authority on marine turtle research and conservation.
I'm a founding innovator with Kumu, an innovation lab incepting and incubating transformative activism with a focus on emerging and future envirosocial issues.
“Live like you love the ocean” is the simple message of this campaign, launched in early 2007. LiVBLUE seeks to reconnect people to water and promote the “blue movement” through neuroconservation and positive ocean-friendly living, eating, travel, thinking and political change messages. We've shared 1 million blue marbles as simple tokens of gratitude. Watch for many people and orgs adopting the “live blue” mantra, including the ISTS, New England Aquarium and Save Our Shores!
We share our data with the Ocean Biogeographic Information System Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations, a spatially referenced online database, aggregating marine mammal, seabird and sea turtle observation data from across the globe.
Connececting youth for conservation, Ocean Connectors has linked people and animals around the world for more than a decade. The Ocean Connectors program began in name in 2001 with pen-pal letter writing exchanges between youth in the US, Japan, and Mexico, following the path of migrating loggerhead sea turtles. The program expanded to link youth in Watsonville, California with children in Nayarit, Mexico focusing on olive ridley sea turtles. Today under the leadership and vision of Frances Kinney, Ocean Connector continues to grow, educating and inspiring many young people along the migration routes of ocean animals.
I’m a past member of the Ocean Council and active supporter of Oceana, a leading global ocean advocacy group with offices around the world.
Advocates for wild, healthy oceans for more than 30 years. I served as a Senior Scientist in OC’s Santa Cruz office from 2006-2008, focusing on bycatch in fisheries and sea turtle biology and conservation as well as working to grow the base of the ocean conservation movement. Be sure to sign up for the annual International Coastal Cleanup.
TOF provides the fiscal sponsorship for eleven (yes, eleven!) projects that I’m involved with. Not to mention dozens of other projects working to make the ocean stronger, healthier and more full of the abundance we need.
I serve on OD's Advisory Board. Oceanic Defense is an international education organization with members in over 60 countries, spanning 6 continents with 1 mission; healthy aquatic ecosystems free from human abuse and neglect. Oceanic Defense teaches people to protect our oceans by acting responsibly as consumers and by making smart decisions in our daily lives.
I’m the co-founder / co-director of Ocean Revolution (together with my friend Tim Dykman). Ocean Revolution works with Indigenous Communities to support projects, provide funding skills, facilitate knowledge-transfer, and create international networks capable of influencing local, regional and global action; bringing recognition to these communities, helping to assuring justice, and providing a framework for responsible economic development.
Ocean Voices is a project by sound artist Halsey Burgund and marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols designed to collect spoken voice recordings from people around the world responding to a few personal questions about the ocean. The voices will be combined with music written by Halsey, into real-time generative audio collages based on the preferences of individual listeners. This website currently is the primary vehicle for collecting those voices, but as soon as enough are collected to seed the system, this site will also generate the streaming audio collages thereby spreading the words of all participants around the globe.
I'm on Otter 501's Advisory Board. Blending original footage and the tools of social media, OTTER 501 is a unique hybrid of fact and fiction that takes the traditional wildlife documentary into a new style of storytelling.
I served as an Advisor to Passionfish. Passionfish was the single largest endeavor uniting diverse stakeholders to discuss fishery and seafood sustainability—and doing so in the company of the seafood and culinary industries whose members profoundly influence consumer demand.
Planetary Coral Reef Foundation
I serve PCRF’s as a scientific advisor and board member. The Planetary Coral Reef Foundation (PCRF) was founded in 1991 to address the coral reef crisis. Since its inception, PCRF has pursued an unprecedented global mission to preserve coral reefs through innovative programs in science, education and technology.
I worked with PPC founders to position and brand this leading coalition dedicated to the remediation of plastic pollution worldwide. I currently serve as the chair of their Science Advisory Board.
PLUCK.faS.TiC [pluhk-fas-tik] -adjective
1)alternative to plastic conceived or appearing as if conceived by an unrestrained imagination; fun and creative alternatives to single use plastic. 2)extraordinarily good quality in reference to an alternative to disposable, toxic plastic. 3)an exclamation in response to someone using a reusable or biodegradable alternative to disposable, single-use plastic as in: “wow, that’s a pluckfastic refillable glass water bottle (or coffee mug or shopping bag or take-out container) with the pluckfastic.org sticker on it!”
Together with Dr. Hoyt Peckham, I co-founded ProCaguama, a network of individuals, fishermen and organizations aimed at restoring endangered loggerhead turtles to the North Pacific. Dr. Peckham now directs the project throughout the Pacific as part of Grupo Tortuguero.
I served as a Conservation Science Advisor to ProPeninsula. ProP worked to build the environmental movement on the Baja California Peninsula.
I was a founding member of the Advisory Board for RPI, a global reef advocacy and education group.
I’m a board member of SOS, an inspiring Santa Cruz based ocean group fighting for our coast and ocean, keeping it cleaner, safer and free of oil platforms for three decades!
I serve on the Vision Council for STW’s World Surf Reserves Program. In 2012 I was honored with Save The Waves' annual Wave Saver Award, joining some of my ocean heroes who have been past recipients.
TSE offers individual, customized, affordable internship packages to U.S. graduate and undergraduate students. Our interns go to Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, or Brazil and earn college credit at San Diego State University or their own university. Interns can work at a sea turtle research center on the beach or in a university lab, collect data in the field for their paper, and immerse themselves in the local culture and language. The foreign sea turtle organization receives a flow of skilled science students, collaboration with an American university, and joint publication opportunities.
I’m on the Board of Directors for seaturtle.org which is basically the first place you should go to learn about sea turtle research and conservation around the world. Michael Coyne is a genius.
I serve on the STF board and support their efforts to protect sea turtles and keep our coasts healthy in many ways. Thei team works tirelessly in Costa Rica and Oregon for our ocean.
SEEthe WILD.org and SEEturtles.org
A program I co-founded with Brad Nahill to connect people who love sea turtles, and other ocean wildlife, with the best places to see those wild animals, learn about them AND help local people. Sign up for a seeTURTLES.org partner expedition now!
I serve on the Science Advisory Panel for Sempervirens. Preserving Redwood Forests Since 1900, the Sempervirens Fund protects and permanently preserves redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forests, wildlife habitat, watersheds, and other important natural features of California’s Santa Cruz Mountains, and encourages people to appreciate and enjoy this environment. As a resident of Caliofrnia's SLOWCOAST region, this is personally very important to me.
A campaign of Ocean Revolution aimed to bring awareness about the #1 seafood in the U.S. and the destruction related to trawling for shrimp and farming shrimp.
I serve as a practitioner mentor for the wonderful Smith Fellows Program of the Society for Conservation Biology.
SUFB scours the scientific journals for information on the latest Ocean Conservation material and provides it to you in a way that you can understand. We also conduct interviews with various people and organizations around the world who are using innovative techniques to do Ocean Conservation.
Turtle Island Restoration Network + Sea Turtle Restoration Project
I’m a board member and long term supporter of STRP, advocates for sea turtles, salmon and their habitat around the world for more than 25 years.
UBB supports ocean protection through the sale of their sustainable products. For every item sold they clean a pound of trash from our shores and donate to conservation organizations like LiVBLUE. I am a founding member of their Ocean Advisory Board.
WiLDCOAST/COSTASALVAjE
I’m a co-founder of WiLDCOAST and served as co-director for five years. WiLDCOAST works tirelessly to protect coastal wildlands and wildlife.
The 5 Gyres Institute sails the world's oceans and fresh water ecosystems to better understand the scope of plastic pollution and its implications for human health. With the knowledge gained from at sea research, 5 Gyres employs dynamic communication tools for advocacy, education and outreach to the public at large. A global problem requires a global solution, and it's our goal to engage with activists, educators, industry and policymakers to solve the marine the plastic plight. By coupling ordinary citizens with scientists at sea, we cultivate ambassadors with an authentic, firsthand vantage to engage at different touch-points in society, whether it's politics, business, arts or grassroots activism.