After graduating in 1984, he joined the Ocean Institute, an ocean education organization, where he had the idea to create a comic book titled The Intertidal Zone, which led to the creation of SpongeBob SquarePants.
Ms. Maxwell already had all of the right relationships in place to provide a solid foundation for ocean education: The High Seas Alliance, IUCN, National Geographic, Encyclopedia of Life, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Antarctic Ocean Alliance, Blue Marine Foundation, Global Partnership for Oceans and Mission Blue - just to name a few.
Too often conservationists succumb to tunnel vision when it comes to their own specialities, but the Waitt Institute offers a toolkit that includes everything from facilitating community consultations, to ecological assessments, to zoning analysis, to ocean education in schools, to legal drafting and enforcement support.
Oceans education isn't the reserve of enthusiastic geography teachers – it can inspire children in science, literacy, art and much more.
In June 2006, Chairwoman Mikulski received the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative's (JOCI) report, "From Sea to Shining Sea: Priorities for Ocean Policy Reform," which recommended robust funding for ocean research, education, observation and exploration.
"We are a mere drop in the education ocean compared to Yale," Emelyn Jones, the principal, told the newspaper, calling the idea of a mix-up "preposterous".
"Even the County Department of Public Works, which for years believed only in rushing water to the ocean, now embraces education and recreation as goals.
Our focus is working jointly with global and local partners, including the Aquarium of the Bay, Marine Mammal Center, Gulf of the Farallones NMS, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Save The Bay, and Sailors for the Sea to ensure that our oceans can continue to sustain our earth through collaborative ocean conservation and education outreach.
This street runs along the site of AltaSea, a $500 million public-private project to transform 35 acres filled with old warehouses into a hub for innovation in ocean-based science, education and business.
Its aim will be to grow the anti-offshore oil drilling opposition, promote clean renewable energy and do voter education on ocean conservation, "to restore the blue in our red, white and blue".
This may seem like a drop in the ocean compared to the established education and training programs run by Western tech companies in the region.
