Gulf of Mexico Alliance

Don't forget, this is today (Nov. 20)! Best way to learn what we do by the people who do it.

Where are we at today? #BaysandBayous of course. We are excited that it’s right in our backyard in Biloxi, MS, this year. Come say hello friends. As we learn, support, and connect! And don’t forget to mark your calendars for our next big meeting, All Hands 2025 in Biloxi May 5-8.

Passionate about educating others on the Gulf of Mexico? Join our Education & Engagement Team at the Gulf of Mexico Alliance! Connect with experts from all five Gulf states to promote environmental stewardship and inspire action across the region. Recent projects include creating art from marine debris with Florida students, supporting the Ocean Guardian school programs, and helping students become Youth Ambassadors for the Gulf. Everyone’s welcome, and it’s free to join! Explore this team or any of our others at GulfOfMexicoAlliance.org. . . . #GulfofMexico #EnviroEducation #MarineEducation #JoinUs #GetintotheGulfofMexicoAlliance?

Join us at 2 p.m. Central/ 3 p.m. Eastern Wednesday, Nov. 20 for our next Wednesday Webinar. Gulf of Mexico Alliance coordinators will give quick overviews of the priority issue projects their teams are working on. This meeting will focus specifically on the Data & Monitoring Team, the Wildlife & Fisheries Team, the Human Benefits of Nature Cross-Team, the Integrated Planning Cross-Team, and the Marine Debris Cross-Team. If you've ever wanted to know more about what we do, these are the meetings to attend. Pre-registration is required.

What we do: Spark creativity through learning ?? Trash (or as we like to call it, marine debris). It's just not something you want to see at the beach. Now, tastefully displayed on a wall, that's different. That's... ART. ????Thanks to a project supported by Motiva Enterprises through our Gulf Star Program, kids in the Tampa area are not just learning about marine debris, they are taking action, and teaching others. Led by our partners at the Florida Aquarium, students have been removing marine debris and making it into art. These colorful pieces were then displayed at the Aquarium. . . . #marinedebris #GulfofMexico #GoodfortheGulf #Florida #Tampa #GulfStar

20 years of GOMA: Embrace the Gulf In 2020, the Alliance launched the Embrace the Gulf campaign, a year-long education and awareness effort developed by the Education & Engagement Team as a way to promote positive messages highlighting the vitality, sustainability, and productivity of the Gulf of Mexico. Knowing that the best way to reach a broad audience across the five Gulf states would be to use the power of social media, the Alliance shared daily messages across Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. The initiative was extremely successful, engaging over 25,000 new followers. Building on this success, the Alliance continued the initiative through 2021 with a new focus on improving the health of the Gulf by turning awareness into action. Weekly messages shared ways to volunteer, help wildlife, get outside, and more.

Robertsdale High School made headlines this week for being a NOAA Ocean Guardian School. This is one of the schools we are supporting. Check out the article at https://lnkd.in/ecKSwKC2

Just a friendly reminder and event invite to our 2025 GOMA All Hands Meeting

What we do: Supporting interns Microplastics were removed from 100 miles of Gulf coast waters recently thanks to two internships funded by CITGO through our Gulf Star Program. Keely Colinger, MSU Extension Program Assistant, and Alexis Schmactenberger interned for the MSU Coastal Research and Extension Center, where they worked on several projects including collecting more than 440 lbs. of marine debris. . . . #GoodForTheGulf #GulfOfMexico #MarineDebris #Microplastics ???????

Tool of the Month: NOAA's Index to Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples NOAA's Index to Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples (IMLGS) is a database and web-accessible map viewer that enables researchers to discover and access (i) digital geological data gleaned from seabed and lakebed geological samples as well as (ii) the physical samples underlying the digital data and curated at partner institutions.