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For more information, contact NOAA’s Pacific Services Center at 532-3200. Comment online at http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ceq/initiatives/oceans/

Sponsored by the Ocean Conservancy.

Annual event whereby volunteers worldwide collect beach debris and record their findings for future reference.

For more information or to sign up, call 808.753.3311

Marine Educators NIght is sponsored by NOAA’s Ocean Explorer program and the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation. Explore the Aquarium while discovering new educational resources and old friends. NOAA’s Ocean Explorer website, research and curricula will be highlighted, as well as the many resources available for educators to support marine curricula. Representatives from State and Federal organizations will have display tables set up with instructional materials. Refreshments will be provided.

Participation is free for educators and a guest.

ASME International, the OOAE Division of the International Petroleum Technology Institute (IPTI), and the University of Hawaii at Manoa invite participation in the 28th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2009).

 

A Marine Debris Forum will be held Wednesday, October 22nd at the auditorium of the Hawai`i State Capitol. This free public event will include a featured speaker, panel discussion, information tables, door prizes and refreshments. Hawai`i State Senator Gary Hooser and Hawai`i State Representative Lyla Berg will attend and will welcome everyone.

Regina Woodrom Rudrud, Maritime and Fisheries Anthropologist at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, will discuss the consequences of life for sea turtles within an ocean of marine debris as well as sea turtle biology, behavior and life history. Reginal Woodrom Rudrud is a sea turtle conservation biologist and maritime and fisheries anthropologist who for the past ten years has studied sea turtles in several countries. Ms. Woodrom Rudrud is a lecturer on the biology of marine reptiles in the departments of anthropology and biology at UH Manoa.

Charles Moore, Founder of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation (AMRF), will explore the consequences of our society's profligate waste over the last half century and how it is showing up in the ocean's food web from the smallest marine animals to the largest cetaceans. He will explain the unexpected longevity of our waste in the marine environment, how it threatens the ocean's biodiversity, and what we must do to change the tide of trash inundating our shores. Charles Moore founded AMRF in 1994 to study and restore the ocean environment.

Suzanne Frazer, Co-founder of the Beach Environmental Awareness Campaign Hawai`i (B.E.A.C.H.) will discuss marine debris and the work of B.E.A.C.H., an all volunteer organization concerned with reducing marine debris on Hawai`i's beaches through beach clean-ups, litter prevention and environmental education.

The Beach Environmental Awareness Campaign Hawai`i (B.E.A.C.H.)is partnering with the UH Sea Grant Hanauma Bay Education Program to present a weekly education film/lecture series on Thursday evenings in October as part of Marine Debris Awareness Month. This series of events is free and open to the public. Parking is free after 5:30 pm.