Service Learning | Ocean Matters

Ocean Matters Team Ocean’s Youth Leadership Council Launches New Instagram Account

November 3, 2022November 3, 2022 laura

Let’s Meet our Ocean Matters Youth Leadership Council! First up is 17-year old Isabella (Isa) from Florida, who was with Ocean Matters this past summer doing coral restoration work in Key Largo for our Ocean Matters Florida Marine Ecology Expedition. Isa is passionate about marine biology, ocean conservation and its intersection with art. Isa is […] Read More

Ocean Matters Teen Leader Takeover #7: Sophie

January 24, 2021 laura

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

January 17, 2021 laura

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 #4: Ellie

January 2, 2021January 4, 2021 laura

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

Youth Stepping Up for the World’s Coral Reefs

October 6, 2019 laura

Kudos to Ocean Matters teen Alan N., 16 from Seattle, WA who arranged for his high school to see Chasing Coral last week, after attending our Hawai’i project this spring with the Hawai’i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) where part of the movie was filmed. Alan (left) helping Anders out of the muck on Oahu, […] Read More

Why Utila?

February 11, 2019February 11, 2019 laura

by Laura Parker Roerden Ocean Matters Marine Science through Service Learning Programs match young people with endangered marine ecosystems where they can make a real difference. We first brought high school-aged students to Utila, a small island off the mainland of Honduras, in 2016 for a project to address the lionfish invasion, which is decimating […] Read More

Serving to Learn: Activating Hope on #GivingTuesday

November 21, 2017November 7, 2019 laura

by Laura Parker Roerden #GivingTuesday celebrates the power that serving others can have in our lives and in our communities. You could say that service is the other side of the coin of giving thanks. Numerous studies that have looked at service as a tool for education enumerate important gains for youth in attitudes toward self, […] Read More

Living in the Moment

September 5, 2017September 8, 2017 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