How to Save an Ocean Big Ocean
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This season on 'How to Save an Ocean', we’ll be sitting down with explorers, philanthropists, trail-blazers, and activists, asking them the all important question of 'how'. How do you get a famous scientist to write you back? Circumnavigate the globe with nothing but the stars? Unite the world's largest marine protected areas? This work won't be easy, but we invite you to come along for the adventure.
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Building Relationships | A Conversation with Pelika Andrade
Join us in this How to Save an Ocean episode with Pelika Andrade, the founder and Executive Director of Nā Maka Onaona, a Hawaiʻi-based non-profit, and an extension agent for the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program. She has a long history working with Hawaiʻi communities as a community member, hoaʻāina (friend of the land), and researcher. For the past 15 years, Pelika has been developing alternate approaches to monitoring Hawaiʻi’s watersheds and supporting the implementation of m...
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The Ocean as Community | A Conversation with Dan Kinzer
Dan Kinzer founded Pacific Blue Studios, a network of high-impact, community-driven, place-based, and youth-powered studios. The network's shared aim is to leverage biomimicry, indigenous perspective, and cutting-edge technologies as vehicles to grow, connect, and amplify a (k)new intergenerational learning ecosystem––to help realize a resilient, regenerative and inclusive future in Hawai'i around the Pacific and across our Blue Planet. Naiʻa and Dan talk about how programs and people ca...
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A Canoe Is an Island | A Conversation with Bonnie Kahapea-Tanner
Bonnie Kahapea is an educator, mentor, voyager, and community advocate. While at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, Bonnieʻs passion for voyaging was ignited. She witnessed the Hōkūleʻa preparing for a voyage to Tahiti – and the pull of the ocean was undeniable. While pursuing her master's degree in transformative learning and change, Bonnie remained connected to her roots and "stayed close to the canoe." She never lost sight of her passion for voyaging.Today, Bonnie serves as an instruc...
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Water Rights, Human Rights | A Conversation with Kelsey Leonard
Kelsey Leonard is the first Native American woman to earn a science degree from the University of Oxford, which she earned in 2012. She earned an MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management from St. Cross College, one of the thirty-eight c olleges of the University of Oxford. Her master's thesis, “Water Quality For Native Nations: Achieving A Trust Responsibility”, discusses water quality regulation and how water resources on tribal land are not protected. Kelsey Leonard is an enrolled member...
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Exploring The Deep | A Conversation with Marcus Eriksen
Marcus Eriksen is the co-founder of Leap Lab, as well as the Research Director and co-founder of the 5 Gyres Institute. He studies the global distribution and ecological impacts of plastic marine pollution, which has included expeditions sailing through all 5 subtropical gyres, Bay of Bengal, Southern Ocean and inland lakes and rivers, recently publishing the first global estimate of all plastic of all sizes floating in the world’s oceans, totaling 270,000 metric tons from 5.25 trillion parti...
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People, Art, Conservation | A Conversation with Naiʻa Lewis
As founder of Salted Logic, an indigenous, women-owned multi-media collective, Naiʻa leverages twenty-five years of experience in the public and private sectors to help clients reach their goals. She uses innovative media, high-impact communication products, culturally-driven design, coaching, and resilient partnerships to achieve project objectives parallel to building resilient communities and durable intergenerational learning systems. Naiʻa splits her time as Director of Big Ocean, a...