Ocean Conservation | Ocean Matters

Welcome Ocean Matters Youth Advocate Leader Arcadia Davies

February 16, 2020February 16, 2020 laura

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?

September 13, 2017August 29, 2019 laura

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

Living for the Moments

September 5, 2017December 19, 2022 laura

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