Welcome to the Ocean Pollution Committee's Wiki Site. Please feel free to post comments and discussion topics to our page. I plan to make frequent posts to keep everyone updated on committee activities.
Stayed tuned to the Ocean Pollution Wiki Site to find out more about the Ocean for Life Program (the program is a partnership between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment Program, and Scubanauts International). Find out how you can help the committee develop some media "assignments" for the students that centers around ocean pollution!
Jake (Chair, Ocean Pollution Committee)
Below is some background information on the Ocean for Life program courtesy of Jonathan Shannon, Education Liaison, NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries. In an effort to promote awareness of ocean pollution, the Ocean Pollution Committee will be working with the Ocean for Life Program (OFL). Initial discussions have focused on how the Ocean Pollution Committee can serve as a resource to OFL by helping develop ocean pollution media assignments. If you have questions or comments please post them, here, on the ocean pollution wiki site. Also, if you would like to be involved in this project please contact me directly or post a thread on the wiki site.
Jonathan Shannon on the Ocean for Life Program
Ocean for Life: Enhancing Cultural Understanding through Ocean Science
"During the summer of 2009, the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries hosted 57 students from 14 different countries and 11 states within the United States during two field studies at sites within the National Marine Sanctuary System. This pilot program, entitled Ocean for Life: One World, One Ocean, brought together students of diverse cultures and backgrounds to discover marine science, conservation, and how the ocean connects us all. NOAA’s national marine sanctuaries provide the optimal setting for this unique opportunity to enhance cross-cultural relationships, while creating a stewardship ethic for the ocean and the universal human experience. In each field study, students either experienced the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary or followed the California Current to explore the Cordell Bank, Gulf of the Farallones, and Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuaries, with both groups meeting together in Washington, DC. During their journeys, the students discovered that, like the ocean, they were all connected as people despite the different names and features attributed to them. The students and staff had come for a two-week experience to learn about our ocean and environment; what they received were lessons that will last a lifetime, new perspectives on their world, each other, and themselves."
For a complete list of partner organizations, more information on the Ocean for Life program, and to view the youth media projects created by the students, please visit www.oceanforlife.org.
For more information, please contact jonathan.shannon@noaa.gov or claire.fackler@noaa.gov.