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May 2021
Blue + Green Session 2: Aquaculture Industry and LA
Date: Thursday, May 13th, 4:00 PM To register, click here. Sponsors: Speakers: Paul Dobbins, Senior Director of Impact Investing and Ecosystems Services, Aquaculture, World Wildlife Foundation Paul Dobbins is the Senior Director of Impact Investing and Ecosystems Services on the WWF-US Aquaculture team. He is identifying companies for impact investment, stakeholder collaboration, and research opportunities that will accelerate the growth of seaweed and shellfish farming. His project, titled Advancing Aquaculture for Climate Gains, includes research into the potential market for feed…
Find out more »Blue + Green Session 3: Policy and Politics
Date: Thursday, May 20th, 4:00 PM To register, click here. Sponsors: Speakers: Mark Gold, Executive Director, Ocean Protection Council; Deputy Secretary for Ocean and Coastal Policy, California Natural Resources Agency Mark Gold joined OPC in July of 2019. As Executive Director of OPC and the Deputy Secretary for Ocean and Coastal Policy for the California Natural Resources Agency, Mark serves as a key advisor to Governor and the Secretary of Natural Resources and directs policy, scientific research, and critical partnerships to increase…
Find out more »Blue + Green Session 4: Aquaculture and the Future
Date: Thursday, May 27th, 4:00 PM To register, click here. Sponsors: Speakers: Prof. Brian Beale, Cooperating Professor of Marine Ecology, Research Director of Downeast Institute, University of Maine Dr. Beal is a professor of marine ecology at the University of Maine at Machias (UMM). His position at UMM is divided equally between teaching and research, and includes his work at DEI. In addition, Dr. Beal directs UMM’s Marine Field Station at Black Duck Cove. A native of Jonesport, Maine, Dr. Beal…
Find out more »June 2021
Live Chat with The Ocean Opportunity Lab
Photo by Matt Power on Unsplash “The Ocean Opportunity Lab – Mapping and connecting the world of ocean & energy startups” Friday, June 4, 2021 at 12:00 pm To register, click here! Panelists Birgit Liodden Birgit is the Founder & CEO of The Ocean Opportunity Lab (TOOL). She’s a self-made entrepreneur who has worked to push sustainability, entrepreneurship, next generation & diversity across the maritime industry for almost 15 years. She is one of the most visible young female leaders within the global…
Find out more »Blue + Green Session 5: Aquaculture and California
Speakers: Dr. Kristin Aquilino, lead scientist for the White Abalone Captive Breeding Program based at University of California, Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory Dr. Kristin Aquilino is the lead scientist for the White Abalone Captive Breeding Program based at University of California, Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory and including a dozen partners along the west coast of North America. Her research focuses on the reproductive conditioning and husbandry of endangered white abalone, as well as the effects of climate change and disease on…
Find out more »September 2021
From Hydrothermal Vents to Seafloor Mapping: A Deep Dive into the Ocean with the Ocean Exploration Trust Team
Photo Credit: OET/Nautilus Live Panelists Dr. Robert Ballard President of the Ocean Exploration Trust Director of the Center for Ocean Exploration, Graduate School of Oceanography URI Among the most accomplished and well known of the world’s deep-sea explorers, Dr. Robert Ballard is best known for his historic discoveries of hydrothermal vents, the sunken R.M.S. Titanic, the German battleship Bismarck, and numerous other contemporary and ancient shipwrecks around the world. During his long career he has conducted more than 150 deep-sea…
Find out more »Project Blue @ Fall: Live Chat with Greg Stone
"Is Deep-Sea Mining Safer than Mining the Rainforest?" Dr. Greg Stone, Chief Ocean Scientist at The Metals Company Dr. Stone is an ocean scientist and explorer with over 10,000 dives throughout Earth's ocean down to 18,000 feet using submarines, SCUBA, underwater habitats and robotics. Greg is widely known as a global thought leader who finds ways for humanity and the ocean to co-exist and support each other in the modern world. He was a catalyst at the genesis of the…
Find out more »October 2021
The Blue Hour: Ocean of Inclusion
Save the Date! AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles is proud to host our annual fundraiser The Blue Hour: Ocean of Inclusion on October 9, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm at the Korean Friendship Bell, Angel's Gate Park, San Pedro, CA For 2021, the Blue Hour theme is Ocean of Inclusion. Our community will come together in support of the ocean to celebrate both education and the diversity of our port community. We are proud to be partnering with Angels Gate…
Find out more »Project Blue Live Chat with Dr. Yi Chao, Founder and CEO of Seatrec
“Persistent and Sustainable Ocean Monitoring” Yi Chao is the Founder and CEO of Seatrec. He pioneered the ocean thermal energy harvesting project at NASA JPL in collaboration with his co-Inventors, Jack Jones and Thomas Valdez. Additionally, Yi was the PI for the SOLO-TREC project funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the follow-on project Slocum-TREC. As an oceanographer prone to seasickness, Yi decided to study the ocean from outer space and was a Project Scientist for the successful…
Find out more »November 2021
