World Oceans Day
MONDAY JUNE 8, 2020
P: Chris Christie
HAPPY WORLD OCEANS DAY
From Coast to Coast to Coast. . . And Around the Globe.
A day of unified action and celebration, for our amazing waterways!
WELCOME TO THIS SQUAMISH WAVE OF CHANGE
WE’VE GOT QUITE THE LINE-UP FOR YOU TODAY. . .
So many have shared their voices, to celebrate and protect our oceans.
An unbelievable spirit of generosity, across our community.
Speaking up, for what they believe in.
Authentically, Using Voices and Making Choices. With a Spirit of Together We Can.
I Am Inspired and Empowered.
Our words, actions, and images tell the stories, this World Oceans Day, 2020.
Wherever, they are broadcasted. May that be far and wide.
Each of us makes a difference. Our actions count.
Let’s Create a Beautiful Wave of Change, Together.From the bottom of my heart, thank you!
Wishing You Much Saltwater for Your Soul…
Take time to listen – to really LISTEN LOUD.
Be sure to step outside and breathe in air.
Connect to the ocean in whatever way you can.
For we are all connected by these incredible waterways, full of wonder.
Happy World Oceans Day!
Much Saltwater For Your Soul.
With Gratitude,
Minna
LET’S GET THIS PARTY STARTED…
Starting Off with Our Live Stream Presentation by Jackie Hildering, The Marine Detective.
OCEAN WONDERS
Link opens at 9:15am.
Key Presentation 9:30-10:30 am
Connect. Engage. Be Inspired. Be Empowered. Celebrate. Protect.
Jackie Hildering is “The Marine Detective” – teacher, underwater photographer, whale researcher and co-founder of the Marine Education and Research Society.
Above all, Jackie is driven to create awareness of the life-sustaining importance of the Ocean and, positive action for the beauty, mystery, and fragility hidden in the cold, dark waters of our coast
She spent much of her youth in Squamish, having attended Mamquam Elementary and graduating from Howe Sound Secondary. She is now based on northern Vancouver Island after having had the following roles in the Netherlands: biology teacher, international school administrator, and science curriculum writer for the International Baccalaureate.
On-camera experience includes work with PBS, the BBC, and Animal Planet.
Recent recognition includes being the recipient of the 2019 EcoStar Award for Educational Leadership and the winner of the 2019 Environmental Award from the Canadian Power Squadron.www.TheMarineDetective.com was recognized with the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada 2018 People’s Choice Award for best Canadian Science Website.
VOICES AND CHOICES
Voices have been shared, across the Salish Sea from Squamish, to Vancouver Island and all the way from the Arctic.
For a Love of our Waterways. For Our Oceans. These bodies of water that connect us all.
This World Oceans Day.
With Oceans of Gratitude
CONNECT. ENGAGE. BE INSPIRED. BE EMPOWERED. CELEBRATE. PROTECT.
A Message from our Squamish Mayor, Karen Elliott
Take Action – Share Your Voice
Blackfish Paddles Presents: Howe Sound
“Our new film that showcases Howe Sound and the amazing ecosystem we are proud to call home.”
WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR?
A MUST WATCH – LISTEN LOUD
Lilly & Ava, Coast Mountain Academy
TAKE A STAND
http://www.takeastandforconservation.com/
TAKE ACTION. - contest resource brochure PDF
TAKE ON THE CHALLENGE - contest entry form PDF
Deadline for Submission: Tuesday June 23rd.
See Details – Take a Stand – Community Innovation Contest
Thank You, Allison Kermode for this Special World Oceans Day Challenge!
STUDENT SONG – PLASTIC TRUTH
By Eloria, Mamquam Elementary
Last year, in Kirsten Sollid’s intermediate class, students were given the assignment of spreading awareness to their class, community or the world.
Eloria paired up with a classmate to write this wonderful song and performed for the entire school audience and families, on the last day of school last year.
CHANGE MAKERS, Fiona Beaty and Bridget John
Make a Difference
SALISH SEA ORCAS
What does it mean, to only have 72 Salish Sea Orcas, left on the planet…
David Suzuki Foundation – Be an Ocean Keeper
David Suzuki - JOIN THE POD
If you haven’t seen this clip, then you must.
CLICK INTO FIND OUT HOW TO #JOINTHEPOD
What Will YOU do to help?
A TRAILBLAZER, TAKING ACTION. SHARING HER VOICE
BE INSPIRED. BE EMPOWERED.
A Message to Her Hometown, From the Arctic
Explorer and Citizen Scientist - Sunniva Sorby, Hearts in the Ice
Some of you have tuned into Arctic messages livestream, as you “explored by the seat of your pants.” You may have also heard Mayor Karen Elliott present about her personal experience with this project, and seen pictures from the Arctic and what we are learning about Climate Change from the coldest regions of our planet.
A World Oceans Day Message – To Us All!
“From Svalbard to Squamish!”
“As the month of June kicks off- the ice has left the fjord here outside Bamsebu.!~ The belugas are back, the geese, ducks, birds, reindeer and foxes are our neighbors. We remain passionately curious and we are reminded of the great quote from Marcel Proust
“ Perhaps the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes”
For the sake of our living, breathing Ocean-Lets all protect what we love!
We (The team of “Hearts in the Ice” – Sunniva Sorby, Squamish BC and Hilde Falun Strom, Svalbard, Norway) have lived in self-selected isolation at our tiny trappers cabin called Bamsebu, 140 kilometers from Longyearbyen, with the same person, without outside stimulation for nine months now.
We made the decision to isolate ourselves to observe climate change in the ocean and on land and share the data with research institutions and youth world- wide.
The COVID-19 pandemic is a powerful demonstration of how human health and wildlife conservation are deeply intertwined. There has never been a more important time for us all to adopt a different set of values if we are going to avoid a catastrophe. This is the perfect time to experiment with living differently- with each other and with all of life in the ocean and on land.
As we celebrate World Oceans Week -there is no better time to go to the waters’ edge, observe, listen, immerse and be curious about the most beautiful powerful set of lungs our earth has- the ocean! “
Where to Find Sunniva
Facebook: heartsintheice
Instagram: @heartsintheice
Use #hashtags: #bamsebu #heartsintheice
Please support the continued global climate care platform and citizen science data collection:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/hiti-embrace-the-planet-project
Weekly blog updates: www.heartsintheice.com
HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY – PROTECT HOWE SOUND
Tracey Saxby of My Sea to Sky has kindly shared four wonderful SHORT FILMS, capturing the beauty of Howe Sound, through different adventure lenses. The connection, a love of Atl’kitsem/ Howe Sound.
HEART OF HOWE SOUND – 4 SHORT FILMS
#ProtectHoweSound Flotilla
SHARING HER VOICE FOR THE SEA – Lauren Hartling
It’s Porpoiseful
EXPLORE IN WONDER
Photos by Adam Taylor
P: Miles Ritter
IT IS PERSONAL
NOW….FOR THE DANCE PARTY!
AND YOUR WORLD OCEANS DAY GROOVE. . .
Throw on your Playlist – Get in the Mood.
No matter the weather, pop on your tunes.
Dance it up inside, on the grass, by the sea.
In your class, in your home or with neighbours, like me.
POP IT ON-
OCEAN - John Butler - 2012 Studio Version
WONDER WALK TODAY,
hosted by Squamish River Watershed Society
Explore the Estuary Trails – Connect to the Sea
Details on June 2 of the Ocean Toolkit
CHALK IT UP
What do YOU want to chalk about?
Grab your sidewalk chalk and a measuring tape, if you wish, and create an ocean wonderland, right there in your neighbourhood.
Draw BIG. Draw small.
Blue Whale. Or plankton.
And if it’s raining, no worries.
Crayons, paint, markers will do.
Imagine the ocean, and your beautiful view.
What lives there.
I wonder.
And how you feel?
When you think of the sea and the tail of a whale. . .
Close your eyes. And picture that.
(Then make like a fish, and splash in some water!:)
Orca Echolocation Maze (pdf)
Courtesy of Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea
Orca & Dolphin Readers
Find The Fish, by our Key Presenter, Jackie Hildering, The Marine Detective
A FUN INTERACTIVE ACTIVITY, FOR ALL AGES
CAN YOU FIND THE FISH?
https://themarinedetective.com/2020/05/31/find-the-fish-for-oceans-day-2020/
ORCA & DOLPHIN READERS
Shaw Centre for The Salish Sea – Book Recommendations
WHAT’S HAPPENING ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD
A group of Surfers in Cornwall, England started an organization called Surfers Against Sewage, to stop raw sewage from going into the ocean along this incredible coastline.
They continue their efforts to protect what they love.
THERE IS SO MUCH OF THE OCEAN, THAT WE DON’T EVEN KNOW OF
OUR PLASTIC USE COUNTS
AND WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
PROTECT WHAT YOU LOVE
https://www.sas.org.uk/
BLUE THE FILM
Check out this website and trailer – parents may want to check imagery first
“BLUE is a cinematic song for our oceans; beautiful, intimate and grand. Fearlessly truth-telling, yet passionately hopeful. See this film and you will want to rise up with the waves.”
— GREENPEACE AUSTRALIA
MOVIE NIGHT SUGGESTIONS
6-8pm Tonight!
https://howesoundguide.ca/celebrate-howe-sound-atl%E1%B8%B5a7tsem/
CBC Nature of Things: The Kingdom of the Tide (44:08)
https://gem.cbc.ca/media/the-nature-of-things/season-59/episode-13/38e815a-0123967b3a0
Mission Blue (Sylvia Earle – 1 hour 36 minutes)
Recommended by Georgia Strait Alliance
https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/70308278
GET OUT TO THE OCEAN AND SAFELY EXPLORE
WHAT’S UP WITH THE TIDES
https://www.tide-forecast.com/locations/Squamish-British-Columbia/tides/latest
WHAT’S YOUR OCEAN COMMITMENT
NOW OFF TO THE OCEAN….
But Not Before…
HUGE OCEANS OF GRATITUDE
To ALL Who Contributed, Collaborated, Supported and Shared Their Voices.
And to all those in our community and around the globe, making a difference for our planet and our Oceans.
To the Ones Working Hard Behind the Scenes, and their families, who have quietly shared their voices through action…YOU ROCK!!!
My Family (Paul, Anika and Piper - for everything under the sun), My Friends and Family (who have listened to countless ideas…you know who you are!) John Teitzel (kickin the creative web build), Anne MacKenzie (SWOC Comms), Ryan Massey (Educational Liaison), Kirsten Sollid, and Shawna Wagner and Kevin Trotter (MQE Wave of Change), Tina Currie (SUP wonder), Norm Hann (STAND), Mayor Karen Elliott (supporting this SWOC), Jackie Hildering (saying yes!), Ruth Simons, Bridget John, Fiona Beaty…
And So Many More…Extra Special Thanks!
THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR JOINING US, IN A SQUAMISH WAVE OF CHANGE.
Many Waves, Create Greater Change.
Please keep visiting these pages and exploring this treasure trove of resources.
Grow the Wave. Create Change. Connect. minna@bluemar4change.com
Jackie Hildering