July-August News of the W2O

W2O had the opportunity to present World Ocean Explorer at this year's National Marine Educator 2023 Conference. In our 45-minute video presentation we toured THE HUB and DEEP SEA while explaining the educational benefits of this unique, free online resource. World Ocean Explorer is an educational, interactive 3D platform for ocean exploration and discovery, designed to increase ocean literacy and interest in ocean fields of study through a web-based interactive. In addition to our participation with the NMEA 2023 Conference, look for us at the Serious Play Conference in Toronto, Canada in October, and the Ocean Literacy Summit in New Gloucester, Massachusetts USA in November. We look forward to connecting with educators everywhere!

worldoceanexplorer.org

WORLD OCEAN RADIO

World Ocean Radio continues the multi-part?RESCUE series with four new episodes this month focusing on the intersection of?environment and education. RESCUE as an acronym offers a plan for specific action and public participation: Renewal, Environment, Society, Collaboration, Understanding, and Engagement.

Part 28: A Transformational Ocean Literacy Tool

Part 27: How to Advance Ocean Literacy

Part 26: The Missing Links: Education & Communication

Part 25: How to Transform the Ocean Apparat

WORLD OCEAN FORUM invites fresh ideas, new solutions, provocative and imaginative conversations about the future of the ocean, and links unexpected people with unexpected ideas. This is a place for key ocean voices — professionals and Citizens of the Ocean alike — to contribute to an active forum of opinion, ideas, and proposals for change in ocean policy and action worldwide. We are always open to submissions for the FORUM. To become a contributing writer, please contact us at [email protected].

medium.com/world-ocean-forum

JOHN BOIT JOINS W2O ADVISORY BOARD

W2O is pleased to welcome John Boit to our Advisory Board. John is a former journalist, international development contractor, and public relations executive. He co-founded a strategic communications firm where he was a partner for 18 years. Prior to launching his company, John worked as a reporter in Maine and Massachusetts before becoming a foreign correspondent. He later led international development and communications projects for U.S.-funded projects that took him to more than 30 countries in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, including five years living in Azerbaijan. Over the course of his career, he has worked as a contractor to the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Department of Defense, the United Nations, and international nonprofits. We look forward to tapping into John's expertise as we work to expand W2O projects such as World Ocean Explorer. A graduate of Harvard University, John and his family live in the small Maine coastal town of Penobscot, where he was raised.

worldoceanobservatory.org/advisory-board

WHAT WE ARE READING

W2O Director Peter Neill is reading "Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Transformation to Value the Planet, Solve the Climate Crisis, and Protect Our Most Precious Assets" by renowned environmental strategist Paula DiPerna. In Pricing the Priceless DiPerna flips conventional ideas of how we value natural assets and why. It is an exciting exploration of finance and what we have long treated as free and taken for granted--the natural assets we need and love the most.

W2O Managing Director Trisha Badger is currently reading "The Weir" by Ruth Moore. Her debut novel, written in 1943, The Weir takes place in a small island fishing village in Maine during the years before World War II. Moore is one of the greatest Maine-based novelists of the twentieth century, and in The Weir she captures not only the characteristics of coastal Maine and its people, but writes--in dialect--of human drama, family, community and the inevitability of change. The particular copy Trish is reading is a reissue by Islandport Press and includes a new introduction.

worldoceanobservatory.org/content/recommended-reading

Our friends at Blue Frontier are offering an updated, revised and now geo-map-based Blue Movement Directory, listing and linking to over 1,000 US-based ocean groups. The Blue Movement Directory allows you to take action in your local area to find resources and make connections. Organizations cal also add and update their information. Users can search the directory or add an organization that you think should be part of the directory because of their work to protect and restore our coasts and ocean. Since its beginning in 2007, the Blue Movement Directory has served as a vital resource for research, field work, community organizing and advocacy.

Not a subscriber? Sign up here.