The Ripple: Fall Issue

Happy Fall 🍂🎃!

Our newsletter just got a new format, scroll to check out skimmable takeaways in global ocean news, Futureswell updates, blue jobs, and impact campaigns to join for planet ocean.

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📣 Ocean News!

From science to conservation to policy, here is the latest news for our ocean.

• ⚒️ Marshall Islands joins wave of resistance to deep sea mining, declaring their opposition to the United National General Assembly this week.

• 🌊 Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary takes its final step for designation, which would protect 4,500 miles of ocean on California Central Coast after decades of work by Indigenous communities and local organizations.

• 🏝️ Blue Justice is being centered as a key priority for the growing blue economy in a new study, to ensure coastal communities are uplifted through economic and ecological benefits.

• 🐟 New study confirms that marine protections increase recreational fisheries, and the spillover effect increases over time (~20+ years).

🗣️Impact Campaigns!

Futureswell supports collective and high-impact advocacy campaigns for a healthier ocean. Here are the recent ones weʻve joined that we recommend.

• 🐧 The South African penguin could be extinct by 2035. Join our petition campaign with Only One to demand government action to protect their food source and breeding habitats.

• 🗳️  You can add your name to the Ocean Leaders for Harris-Walz support letter to advocate for an ocean-minded administration. All signatures are in your individual capacity, not on behalf of an organization.

• 🪸 The Blake Plateau is the largest deep sea coral reef ecosystem in the world, spanning from Florida to North Carolina. Tell the Biden Administration to conserve the Blake Plateau with monument designation, protecting it from deep sea mining and oil and gas drilling.

  Blake Plateau Deep Dive

🎥Long-form Media Round Up!

Take a deep dive into our long-form ocean media, from our podcast to Youtube.

• PODCAST: Ocean Policy in Washington, D.C. debrief ft. The State Department - Hear about Carissa’s meeting with the state department concerning current ocean policy! 🤿 

• YOUTUBE: What is Killing the Ocean?! - Another Marine Biologist Reacts, this time exploring leading industries negatively impacting our oceans. 🔥

• YOUTUBE: Mobula Ray Migration - A FutureSwell expedition to the Sea of Cortez to witness the amazing migration of tens-of-thousands flying mobula rays. 🇲🇽

• YOUTUBE: Planting Coral in Nusa Penida - Learn the process of how Nuansa Pulau, a community-based coral restoration group, scales their coral planting. 🪸

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🌎FutureSwell Around the World!

As a media and impact consultancy, we regularly partner with conferences, summits, and host community events to advance solutions through storytelling.

Deep Sea Summit - Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi:

• 🐙 Futureswell hosted a Deep Sea Summit on Oʻahu, dedicating to sharing the emerging threat of deep sea mining in the Pacific to local communities.

• 🔥 100+ people joined to learn more and advocate for national action!

• 🏝️ Stay tuned for a social media series in partnership with Sustainable Ocean Alliance uplifting deep sea defenders.

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New York Climate Week - NYC, USA

Our team joined for a week of speaking engagement, media partnerships, meetings, and events to advance ocean climate solutions. Here is what we got up to!

• 📷 Served as media partner for A Night with Intergenerational Ocean Storytellers, cohosted by Patagonia and the Pacific Remote Islands Coalition to advocate for protecting the Pacific

• 📹 Met and interviewed Dr. Rick Spinrad, Head of NOAA, to discuss deep sea mining and youth engagement on key ocean issues with Sustainable Ocean Alliance

• 🌲 Spoke at the Green Job Pavilion hosted by Green Jobs Board to share input on blue jobs in conservation

• 🌊 Met with State Department on Oceans to discuss high seas labor violations and deepen relationships for ocean justice

• 🏝️ Spoke on Shaping the Future of Islands, presented by Peace Boat, Kinetik, and Blue Marine Foundation and highlighted conservation finance solutions like a visitor green fee and community-driven governance models.

The Hope Summit - Charleston, South Carolina 🦪

As a media partner, Futureswell covered on the summit by sharing recaps, community driven solutions, and spotlighting resilience in the wake of Hurricane Helene.

Hosted by Carolina Ocean Alliance, the Hope Summit gathered local leaders in the Southeast to advance community driven solutions for our water, ocean, and waterways. It also served to honor Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, father of the Blue Mind, and his legacy of reconnecting our world to water.

If you could not attend this years events, catch up with everything online, and also head to our Instagram where we have recapped many of our experiences.

Deep Dive!

Australia’s Shark Nets Killing Everything but … 😪🦈

Australia has had a tumultuous relationship with sharks and their presence near popular beaches. New South Wales devised a plan to install 51 shark nets to trap sharks entering areas people frequent, attempting to decrease negative encounters. However 80% of the animals caught in the nets over the last year were not sharks, killing large numbers of of dolphins and turtles. Marine experts and conservation groups are urging the government to remove the dangerous nets and pursue other non-lethal methods of shark deterrents and interventions. Read more

Lab Grown Corals Surviving Heat Waves 🔥

Many young corals grown using an IVF method transplanted onto reefs in the US, Mexico, and Caribbean are surviving record heat waves incredibly well! Most of the new corals survived this years record high water temperatures, while older corals and fragmentation planted colonies showed signs of damage. Scientists think IVF methods increase the diversity of polyps increasing the survivability of the organism. Read more

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