CELEBRATE WORLD OCEAN DAY
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| Coral reef off the Kona coast of Hawai'i that I took while SCUBA diving down there over spring break. |
Hi Everyone!
I am still in Colorado, two days until I leave for Hawai'i, but just because I am momentarily in a land locked state does not mean I can't begin to unleash my marine scienceness on y'all. As you all might have guessed from the title of todays blog June 8th is a huge day for our oceans. It is a day that should not only be celebrated by those who are involved with marine science or live by the ocean, it should be celebrated by all people of the world because the ocean is a vital part of all of our lives whether we realize it or not.
Our oceans cover more than 70% of the earth surface and provide a large number of environmental services. The ocean provides humans with food, absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere so we are able to breath, sustains climate and temperature through its current patterns and it even provides us with a portion of the oxygen that we breath, therefore even if you do not live near the ocean you are attached to it in some way or another. These reasons and many others, in my eyes, gives everyone a wonderful reason the celebrate the ocean today on world ocean day!
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| Magnificent coral outcropping. The pastel colors are due to the early morning sun shining through the water at a different angle. This too was taken off the Kona coast. |
I could use this space to tell you all about what the ocean does for us and how we need to celebrate it but I know that I would get board reading all those words so I have decided to post a few videos. Hopefully they will help y'all understand what the ocean does for us and share with you images that help you understand why I am so enamored by the ocean.
The first video is from the National Geographic website. I have the site set as my home page when I open the internet...I know kinda dorky... but the ocean portion of the site is absolutely amazing! (along with the rest of the site of course) National Geographic has yet to fail in amazing me. It is constantly updated with the latest discoveries, explorations and of course incredible photographs pertaining to the oceans. I highly recommend checking it out if you have time! :) The video is a little odd because it is a promotion for a group but I thought it was very informative as well so I hope you enjoy it!
The second video is from TED talk which everyone should get excited about because it is an incredible website with thousands of incredible videos. The speaker is Enric Sala and in his video he describes how we can begin to restore our oceans to their natural state and shares the economic benefits of doing such restoration. This video is a little long but if you have time I highly encourage you to watch it! :) There are also many other ocean TED talks done by many different scientists that you can check out if your interested.
Let me know what you all think about the videos and if there is anything else you would like to see in my blogs :) I promise it will get even more interesting once I am actually in Hawai'i.
Aloha and don't forget to celebrate the oceans! :)
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