June News from the W2O
WORLD OCEAN DAY
Each year on June 8th we celebrate World Ocean?Day, a date designated by the United Nations to recognize our relationship with the ocean through so many different ways of global connection. What was once a bright idea is now an international event that focuses world interest on the ocean and its benefit for all mankind.?We here at the World Ocean Observatory believe that?every day is Ocean Day, and through our programming and communications are relentlessly working to inform?citizens worldwide as a means to unite to sustain the ocean through mitigation and change of human behavior on land and sea. What are you prepared to do for the world ocean, today, tomorrow, and every day??
WORLD OCEAN RADIO
We continue our multi-part?RESCUE series with four new episodes this month focusing on the intersection of?environment and economics. RESCUE as an acronym offers a plan for specific action and public participation: Renewal, Environment, Society, Collaboration, Understanding, and Engagement.
PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT: OUR OCEAN SPACE
?Our Ocean Space?is?a web-based network of inspiring classroom projects created and uploaded by teachers and students to share with their counterparts worldwide. A new project from educator Krisanne Baker titled?Gulf of Maine: Dare to Care?was newly-posted last week. Ms. Baker helps connect students with ocean species through a variety of art mediums, creating connections to inspire advocacy. Teachers and students are invited to share their ocean-related projects with other classrooms: please contact us to contribute your favorite project to this growing collection of exciting work. Exhibits can comprise PPT, images, video files, Word docs and embeds. Visit?Our Ocean Space?today.
ANDREI POLEJACK JOINS W2O ADVISORY BOARD
We are thrilled to welcome?Andrei Polejack to W2O's Advisory. Andrei (he/his) is a senior ocean advisor for the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, with a Ph.D. in Maritime Affairs from the World Maritime University and both Bachelors and Masters degrees in Ecology from Universidade de Brasilia. Deeply involved in the science-policy interface, Andrei's duties include coordinating national ocean and polar research programs, providing technical advice to governance, formulating and implementing public policies, managing budget and negotiating international agreements, among many others. As a trans-disciplinary researcher, Andrei is interested in Ocean Science Diplomacy as a field of study, seeking to understand the complex interaction of ocean scientists and diplomats, along with the political sphere of power dynamics and interests in the marine realm. Theoretically passionate about post‐ and de‐colonial reasoning applied to international relations and its many ways of linking with ocean science. We look forward to opportunities to expand ocean literacy and to engage with ocean science educators and organizations in South America. Andrei's publications can be found?at?ORCID?and?Researchgate.?
RECOMMENDED READING
What we are reading this summer:
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by Guy Standing (Pelican)?
The Blue Commons is an urgent call for change, from a campaigning economist responsible for some of the most innovative solutions to inequality of recent times. From large nations bullying smaller nations into giving up eco-friendly fishing policies to profiteering of the seabed, the scale of the global problem is synthesized in this book for the first time. It also includes a toolkit for all of us to rise up and tackle it.
by Andrea Wulf (Knopf)?
Von Humboldt (1769-1859) was the most famous scientist of his age, a visionary German naturalist whose discoveries and revolutionary ideas forever changed the way we understand the natural world, including a radical conception of nature as a complex and interconnected global force that does not exist for the use of humankind alone. In this biography, Andrea Wulf brings Humboldt’s life into focus: his prediction of human-induced climate change; his daring expeditions; his relationshiops with iconic historical figures; and his influence on the writings of Darwin, Muir, Thoreau and more. Wulf's?The Invention of Nature?reveals the many ways Humboldt’s ideas form the foundation of modern environmentalism, and why they are as vital as ever.
by Peter Neill
The latest?World Ocean Publication?from W2O director Peter Neill. The collection of short essays?has been selected from other writings, some reportorial, others more reflective on specifics of the global conversation about the future of the ocean and its implication for human survival. As time has passed, the conversation has become more specific, in the form of research science and policy suggestion, and more urgently, in the form of inertia, delay, and the failure of the global apparat to reach consensus, much less an effective plan of action. The essays in?Oceanic Feeling?offer glimpses, epiphanies, and illuminations to provide some inner justification for engagement, some shared oceanic connection between writer and reader, conjoined as active global citizens in the shared knowledge of the ocean’s fecundity, generosity, and capacity for sustenance and life.?Contact us?to purchase a $10 copy or visit?Leetes Island Books to learn more.
?Looking for more ocean-themed reads for the summer?
Visit?Recommended Reading?for a comprehensive list or?send us?your suggestions for additions.
VISIT WORLD OCEAN EXPLORER'S HUB
Take a virtual walk through the brand new HUB main entry space in?World Ocean Explorer?virtual aquarium. Interactive 3D exhibits, Ocean Theater, Ocean Classroom Resource Center, planetarium and more!?THE HUB?serves as the main portal to our premier exhibit?DEEP SEA?in collaboration with?Schmidt Ocean Institute?as well as previews of future exhibits including POLAR REGIONS, CORAL REEFS, MARITIME WORK and more.