Happy Earth Month 🌎!

Dive into our spring newsletter sharing all the updates of the last few weeks and what our team is up to this Earth Month! 🌊

Earth Month Resources!

• Download our Marine Biology resume builder 📝

• Check out our Beginner’s Guide to a Low Waste Home 🗑️

• Evaluate your composting abilities with this helpful guide! ♻️

📣 Can you guess who is tying the knot next week on our FutureSwell team? Comment your guess on our latest Instagram post. 📣

Blue News

Best Time to be a Shipwreck Hunter

Now is the BEST time in history to discover and recover ancient shipwrecks. Early explorers had proportionately more accidents than discoveries at sea, leaving many vessels strewn across many of the world’s oceans hidden away from the rest of the world, until now.

New technologies have made scanning areas of sea floor easier and less expensive, even enabling amateurs to participate in searches. Deep sea exploration is in its infancy and modern tools aided by climate change continue to uncover secrets of the deep. Read more

Indigenous Tribes Gain Funding to Manage Coasts

Three Native American communities in California, Washington, and Maine will collectively receive more than $750k to develop climate resilience under the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Proposed projects culminate tribal knowledge and modern data to establish innovative coastal and environmental solutions in their regions. Many spokespeople are excited to continue rekindling native roots to their coastal environments, which NOAA has been a large proponent of in the past few decades, and can now support funding directly with federal legislation.

New Species of Orcas?!😲

Increasing understandings of differences in orca ecotypes has resulted in scientists (finally) proposing separate species designations for two well known populations in the north east Pacific.The Biggs and resident populations of orcas share many similarities as they are both from the Orcinus family, but their notable lack of intermixing, unique social structures, and genetic variation are some of the reasons why the new species designation was proposed. Read more

Age Matters, Protecting Ocean Life

New studies suggest adult fish demographics face significant challenges maintaining and increasing densities following Marine Protected Area establishments. MPAs are an incredibly vital tool for fishery conservation management, however to succeed they need to protect adult fish populations responsible for spawning future generations. Future establishment of MPAs must enforce stricter guidelines utilizing climate friendly designs to effectively protect the area and fish occupying the habitat. Read more

Dominican Republic Meets 30×30!

This week, the Dominican Republic just became the first Caribbean country to reach the 30×30 goal, protecting 30% of its land and waters by 2030 — six years ahead of schedule!

The milestone was reached with the expansion of the Marine Mammal Sanctuary of Silver and Navidad Banks, and the creation of the Marine Sanctuary Orlando Jorge Mera. Both of these sanctuaries are crucial safe haven for marine species, with the region being known as the humpback whales largest known mating and calving grounds in the world. These milestones help increase connectivity between reserves, for wildlife to pass through whilst still being protected. SeaLegacy shared the incredible announcement yesterday in partnership with the Dominican Republic.

FutureSwell Around the World 🌎

Weʻre joining Our Ocean 2024 in Athens, Greece next week! Our goal: to bring all the excitement of the conference to you.

Our Ocean is a global conference where countries join from around the world to share their commitments to progress ocean conservation. Futureswell is helping to amplify those commitments to our ocean community! Our CEO and cofounder, Carissa, will be joining Sustainable Ocean Alliance youth delegation to engage with attendees, interview experts, and represent community-based ocean conservation solutions and storytelling at the conference.

Expect to see updates on global campaigns like: Deep Sea Mining, High Seas Treaty, 30×30, Global Plastics Treaty, Super Reefs, and so much more.

Sustainability & The Sea Podcast Roundup🎤

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YouTube Videos! 🎥

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Ocean Careers

Nail Your Interviews by Asking These Questions:

Successfully getting a job begins with who you know, your qualifications, and how you translate your abilities to your interviewer. Here are great questions to ask establishing your intents with the role and to better understand how they will decide on a candidate, to adequately answer their questions.

• What is currently the biggest gap on your team and how can I fill it on day 1?

• What are expected challenges of this role? *reiterate how your skills and expertise can be applied to those specific challenges

• Why is this role open?

• What is your WHY? *understand the goals of the company and relate that to your abilities and personal goals.

• Mid-Level Environmental Consultant - Brisbane, AUS

• Grants and Scholarship Manager, The Climate Reality Project - Washington DC, USA

• Summer Animal Care Assistant, Marine Biological Laboratory - Massachusetts, USA

• Fisheries Analyst, SCS Global Service - Remote

• Development Events Summer Intern/Worker, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute - Massachusetts, USA

• Marine Education Intern, Central Caribbean Marine Institute - Cayman Islands

• Marine and Communication Conservation Externship, National Geographic and The Nature Conservancy - Remote

This year, global leaders will join to make progress on a Global Plastics Treaty, the first international agreement to address the plastics crisis. In partnership with Only One, sign the petition below to be delivered to delegates at the negotiations in Canada.

Together, this petition calls on leaders to 1) cut plastic waste in half in the next 25 years, 3) reduce pollution to nature by 85%, and 3) reduce greenhouse gasses associated with plastic. ✨