Founding Member of Ocean Matters Board of Directors Brian Skerry Wins Emmy!
Please join all of at Ocean Matters as we congratulate founding member of our board of directors and National Geographic underwater photographer Brian Skerry on his recent well-deserved Emmy Award for “Secrets of the Whales.” This documentary is a triumph of empathy for the wild and a path towards complicating our thinking about our role […] Read More
Ocean Matters Teen Leader Takeover #7: Sophie
What have you been up to since attending the Ocean Matters program? Since attending the Ocean Matters program I have been at home in Washington state and I have been trying to do as many water related things as possible! I live near a lake so I go out on our boat all the time! […] Read More
Ocean Matters Teen Leader Social Media Takeover #6: Cadey Ryce
What have you been up too since attending the Ocean Matters program? In 2019 I attended the Ocean Matters program in Florida. I have since graduated high school and moved into an apartment in Charleston, South Carolina where I am studying at the College of Charleston and majoring in Marine Biology on a pre-vet track. […] Read More
Ocean Matters Teen Leader Social Media Takeover #5: Hannah Miller
What have you been up to since attending the Ocean Matters program? I attended the Ocean Matters program at Hawai’i during the summer of 2017. I not only met some amazing people and established some lasting friendships, but I also reinforced my love for the ocean! I am now a student at Emory University studying […] Read More
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
COVID 19 Things You Can Do to Connect Kids to the Ocean
2: Creek Critters Citizen Science Schools might be closed for social distancing, but there is still opportunity for kids to get outside and learn. While our focus here at […] Read More
Welcome Ocean Matters Youth Advocate Leader Arcadia Davies
by Arcadia Davies When I was three my family vacationed to Washington, and I saw the ocean for the first time. It was the orcas that first caught my eye; and on that trip my fascination for the ocean surfaced. Growing up in land-locked Ohio meant my relationship with the ocean had to be long […] Read More
What Happens to the Coral Reef During a Hurricane?
by Laura Parker Roerden In the mid-1990s Ocean Matters was in Grand Cayman, British West Indies, when the back-end of a hurricane blew through. Five staff members and twenty students were spread across two large beachfront villas on the north side of the island. The locals were nonplussed about the event. “Hunker down,” they advised […] Read More