Apr 13, 2019 - Saving Our Seas From A Mile High

Ocean Symposium and Awards Gala

Featured Guests:

Hayden Panettiere:  An American actress, model, singer and activist. She is known for her performances in the NBC sci-fi series Heroes and the ABC/CMT musical-drama series Nashville. As for movies, Hayden starred in Remember the Titans (2000) with Denzel Washington and Joe Somebody (2001) with Tim Allen. When Hayden isn’t working, she enjoys singing, dancing, horseback riding, gymnastics, taking piano lessons, and swimming.

Michael Nash: Is a Irish/American filmmaker who MovieMaker Magazine named Nash one of the “Top 10 Movie Makers Of The Planet”.  Nash founded Beverly Hills Productions over a decade ago, and recently an honored recipient of the Social Change Global Institute Filmmaker of the Year Award.  Nash’s multi-award winning Climate Refugees was the only film screened by the United Nations at the recent IIEA Copenhagen Climate Change Conference and Davos for world leaders and policymakers. Climate Refugees was noted by Robert Redford in the NY Times “as an agent for social change.” In 2017, Nash was instrumental in the inter-faith distribution of Leonardo DiCaprio’s film Before The Flood.

Wallace J. Nichols:  Called “Keeper of the Sea” by GQ Magazine and “a visionary” by Outside Magazine is an entrepreneurial scientist, movement maker, voracious idea explorer, New York Times best-selling author, international speaker, loving Dad and strategic advisor and collaborator. His book Blue Mind, published by Little, Brown & Company, quickly became a national bestseller and has been translated to over a dozen languages and has inspired a wave of media and practical applications.

Dr. Peter Klimley:  Has studied sharks for over three decades.  He has written over 60 scientific articles on the behavior and ecology of sharks and rays.  The topics of his studies have ranged from the complex social habits and keen navigational abilities of hammerhead sharks to the feeding tactics and communication behavior of white sharks.  He was an editor of Great White Sharks: The Biology of Carcharodon carcharias, which consists of 46 chapters on the systematics, evolution, behavior, ecology, and population biology of the species.

Randall Arauz:  Is an environmentalist working in Costa Rica. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2010, for his efforts on the protection of the sharks, and banning of the shark finning industry. Drawing international attention to the inhumane and environmentally catastrophic shark finning industry, Randall Arauz led the campaign to halt the practice in Costa Rica, making his country an international model for shark protection.

Dr. Mauricio Hoyos:  Is researching the behavior of ten species of sharks across Mexico, including Guadalupe Island, Revillagigedo Archipelago, Clipperton Atoll and the Mexican Caribbean. He helped organize a group of biologists dedicated to the conservation of sharks and rays in Mexican waters. Dr. Hoyos is also a collaborating scientist on the board of many different shark conservation foundations. Mexican Leaders cited Dr. Hoyos as one of the most outstanding young scientists in Mexico. He holds 2017’s Golden Diver award for conservation and awareness of the oceans and the Rob Stewart – shark researcher of year award – 2018 from FINS ATTACHED.

Also in attendance will be Brian and Sandy Stewart. They will honor their son, Rob Stewart by giving out the Rob Stewart Ocean Conservationist of the Year, and Shark Scientist of the Year Awards.