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- The Ripple - June 2023
Happy June from The Ripple, a monthly newsletter by FutureSwell, designed and updated specifically for ocean people. Every month we share the latest in global ocean news, opportunities for ocean careers, and what weʻre up to. June is World Oceans Month and we canʻt wait to share what happened!
🌊 World Ocean Day Recap🌊
In our latest episode of Sustainability & The Sea, we sit down and share all the community events we joined for World Ocean Day, what we learned from them, and how our community celebrated together.
Under the Hood: What's New?
Scaling Solutions
As a media group on a mission to scale ocean climate solutions, we want to learn from and replicate effective conservation approaches from around the world. Learn more about how conservation leaders around the world are saving the ocean on our social media accounts.
Come underwater with us!
Making Scuba Diving a Career?? 🤿
Catch up on our Sustainability & The Sea Podcast with a June episode where we sit down with Max Kushner who has turned his passion for scuba diving into a career.
Blue News
SMMILE 😊 Marine Biologists in Training
A brand new offer this summer let a dozen aspiring marine mammal scientists from Oʻahu and Maui join an intensive learning experience with the University of Hawai’i Institute of Marine Biology. The participants will learn applicable skills for studying marine mammals in the field from two graduate students doing research with the lab. Funding from NOAA, Hawaiian Airlines, and several grants kept the program free to encourage increased representation of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders in the STEM field.
World Ocean Month ft. Whales 🐋
Keep celebrating World Ocean Month with the Pacific Whale Foundation as they host the 7th Annual World Whale Film Festival. Grab your virtual tickets to access all the films during this month, June 8-30! Click the link and scroll down to the online tickets.
Hokulea, First Canoe Landing in over 100 years!
The Hokulea is a remodeled ancient Hawaiian voyaging canoe currently on a 4 year journey to travel around the Pacific ocean. Last week it arrived in the remote Alaskan fishing village, Yukutat and was graciously welcomed as the town’s first canoe landing in over a century. Keep following the Hokulea’s adventure as the vessel continues its journey here.
Feed the Cows Seaweed 🐄
A Big Island farm has been feeding its goats seaweed to help fight harmful methane emissions. The farm is adding local grown seaweed to the goat’s feed mix and have already seen a surprising 70% reduction in overall livestock emissions. This preliminary example of utilizing seaweed in livestock food could potentially be upscaled to reduce national farming emissions which are rapidly contributing to greenhouse gases and global warming. Read more.
Ocean Careers
Blue Advice: Welcome to our new Ripple section featuring curated advice, strategies, and resources specifically designed for those of you interested in becoming marine biologists. We constantly get asked questions about how to enter this career field and we thought what better way to provide answers than with an entire section devoted to advice directly from marine conservationists! Here are some places to start, and keep asking your questions on our other platforms so we can give you all the answers you need.
Before obtaining a career as a marine biologist, environmentalist, or anything in conservation you need to decide where to get necessary qualifications. There are many different universities across the United States, Europe, and Australia that have diverse programs to cater directly to this field of study. Below is a curated list of all the available programs!
Featured Opportunities!
Our goal is to get as many people as possible involved in marine conservation.
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Community Feature: Orcas
Orcas are drawing global attention as reports of whales attacking boats swarm modern media channels. Some experts have proposed the attacks are considered revenge from boat trauma and taught by a single individual to other whales, but other experts suggest it may just be play. This past week, unusual sightings of orcas on both the east and west coast is raising more questions.