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Every Turtle Counts!

Last week, Dr. Earle spoke at the Go Blue Awards in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida on behalf of the Loggerhead Marinelife Center and also visited their nearby facility in Juno Beach.  Their Sea Turtle Hospital rehabilitates Loggerhead, Hawksbill, Green and occasionally Leatherback sea turtles including providing treatment for deeply embedded fishing hooks, plastic ingestion and entanglement, boat strikes and more. 

Over 25 years ago, long-time Juno Beach resident Eleanor Fletcher started what is now the Loggerhead Marinelife Center. Noticing an abundance of sea turtles nesting on the beach in spring and summer, she was curious about why so many hatchlings headed landward after hatching rather than back to sea and as a result, began some of the earliest research on sea turtles in the area.…

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Dr. Earle is Keynote Speaker at Go Blue Awards

PALM BEACH GARDENS, FL — Dr. Sylvia Earle joined a gathering of environmental enthusiasts at PGA National Resort & Spa on Friday afternoon to share her message of ocean preservation.
“I was swept off my feet by a wave when I was 3 and have been in love with the sea ever since,” Earle said. “Even as a child I was lured into the sea by the creatures that live there. Horseshoe crabs on the New Jersey beaches. Starfish and sea urchins in the Florida Keys. Everywhere strange and wonderful forms of life that occur only underwater. It was and is irresistible.” 
A graduate of Florida State University, Earle has dived to 3,300 feet,  led more than 100 expeditions and logged more than 7,000 hours underwater. …

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AMERICA’S CUP HEALTHY OCEAN PROJECT LAUNCHED

San Francisco
October 17, 2011

Global leaders in the arena of ocean conservation, oceanographic research, and environmental sustainability gathered today in San Francisco to celebrate the launch of the America’s Cup Healthy Ocean Project, the global initiative of the 34th America’s Cup to educate the world’s populations about the issues facing our oceans and inspire them to act.
Driven by its commitment to have the 34th America’s Cup be “more than a sport,” the America’s Cup Event Authority (ACEA) has set an ambitious goal with the AC Healthy Ocean Project to develop the world’s largest communication outreach program focused on improving ocean health. To accomplish this goal, ACEA has partnered with some of the leading voices in the ocean conservation field, including Dr.…

Posted in America's Cup, Aquarium of the Bay, Dr. Sylvia Earle, Healthy Ocean, IUCN, mission blue, Ocean Elders, One World One Ocean, San Francisco Bay, The Bay Institute |

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Dr. Earle on Mission Blue and Exploring the Deep Frontier

San Francisco Bay area residents had the opportunity to share two inspiring afternoons with Dr. Sylvia Earle this week at the University of California in Berkeley.  For those who were not able to attend,  complete videos of both lectures, “Mission Blue: Protecting the Heart of the Planet,” and “Exploring the Deep Frontier,” will be featured at The Hitchcock Lecture Series website in a few weeks.…

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Making Waves in Colorado

Coming up on November 13th in Boulder, Colorado are two exciting ocean events to celebrate the First Anniversary of The Colorado Ocean Coalition.  Joined by The Sylvia Earle Alliance and Teens4Oceans, the goal of the COC is to inspire inland communities to care about the ocean.

The Colorado Ocean Coaliton is creating a movement to protect oceans from a mile high by uniting people from all over the world to engage in ocean advocacy.

The Ocean Symposium
Free to the Public – Families WelcomeSunday, Nov 13, 2011 1:00 – 5:00 pm
The Boulder Public Library – Boulder, Colorado
Please join The Colorado Ocean Coalition, Teens4Oceans and The SylviaEarle Alliance for a free Public Ocean Symposium. Learn about a varietyof climate/ocean topics, marine protected areas, plastics and environ-mental impacts, plus agricultural and watershed connections.…

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Google Hosts Launch Party for ARKive and Wildscreen USA

October 11, 2011
Google World Headquarters
Mountainview, California 
On Tuesday evening, Google played host to festivities introducing ARKive and Wildscreen USA to the West Coast, with special guest speakers Dr. Sylvia Earle and Dr. Mike Fay, both National Geographic Explorers-In-Residence.  
The ARKive project is a unique global initiative, gathering together the very best films, photographs, and audio recordings of the world’s threatened animals, plants, and fungi into one centralized digital library to create a freely-accessible, multimedia record of life on Earth. Sir David Attenborough’s riveting video introduction to the project can be seen here on the ARKive website.  By clicking the ‘Get Involved’ tab,  you can see how it is possible to make your own unique contribution to the ARKive mission.…

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Google Earth Eclipses One Billion Downloads

SAN FRANCISCO –
Google Earth software has been downloaded more than one billion times, and that stellar achievement was marked Wednesday with a website showcasing ways the interactive replica of the planet is used.
OneWorldManyStories.com features 40 real-world tales of how people around the globe have used Google Earth to follow dreams, defend nature, explore distant places, or learn about the planet.
Of course, Google Earth maps let people travel virtually to locales where such stories play out. “Google Earth is probably one of the most downloaded applications of all time in terms of raw numbers,” product manager Peter Birch told AFP.
To provide context, Google Earth and Maps vice president of engineering Brian McClendon pointed out that a billion hours ago humans were living in the Stone Age and that a billion minutes ago the Roman Empire was flourishing.…

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Ecology Global Network debuts ‘Ecology Radio’ with special guest, Dr. Sylvia Earle

Dr. Earle in Deep Rover (Photo: David E. Guggenheim)

Ecology Radio is a new, hour-long Internet radio magazine featuring breaking and cutting-edge environmental topics. Dr. David E. Guggenheim, host of The Ocean Doctor Radio Show, brings an ocean-related segment to Ecology Radio each month, debuting with a special guest: “Her Deepness,” Dr. Sylvia A. Earle.

The ECOLOGY Global Network mission is to use modern media tools to inform, educate and inspire the global community to respect, restore and protect our natural and human world, and to encourage all people to become stewards of the environment in which we live.

Listen to Ecology Radio’s premiere edition with Dr. Sylvia Earle here:  Ecology Radio.…

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National Framework for Canada’s Network of Marine Protected Areas Approved

Fisheries and Oceans Canada has announced that the National Framework for Canada’s Network of Marine Protected Areas was approved in principle on September 1st by the federal-provincial-territorial Canadian Council of Fisheries and Aquaculture Ministers.

The National Framework document provides strategic direction for the design of a national network of MPAs, including the overarching vision and goals; design properties; eligibility criteria for inclusion in the network; network governance structure; and guidance for promoting national consistency in bioregional network planning. Canada will now move ahead with National Framework implementation, including marine protected area network planning at the bioregional level.
The entire National Framework document is available at this link.…

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Ted Turner, bison, wolves & Ocean Elders

It was a wonderfully productive weekend with Ted Turner on his spectacularly unspoiled ranch in Montana. Ted has played a major role in saving bison from extinction and reintroducing wolves into North America.
Ted knows how to howl like a wolf and did so (under the full moon of course.) And the 22 wolves on Ted’s ranch howled back! 
Ted once won the America’s Cup and created CNN. He is now a champion for the environment and good causes. Ted, along with Sylvia Earle is also an Ocean Elder and we spent much of the weekend preparing for the first Ocean Elders meeting.
What should the priorities be? Stopping fishermen from dragging the bottom of our oceans? Creating marine parks over 20% of our oceans?…

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