LET'S MAKE A BETTER, CLEANER WORLD
Putting the brakes on plastic trash
CONTAMINATION ALERT
PLASTIC-FREE ALTERNATIVES
Here are some ideas to help reduce unnecessary plastic products and packaging in your life and our environment.
OUR NEWEST LEARNING GAMES
Are you still sharp? Test your memory with this free Concentration card matching game.... no signup or download, just play! (Beat the record of 38 seconds and win a real deck of encylopedic playing cards.)
THE LOBSTER STUDY
We're testing for contaminants that might be harmful to humans or to the marine ecosystem. This study compares the chemical compositions of lobsters from California, Canada and Australia.
GOLETA RECEIVES OCEAN ECOLOGY AWARD
The Ocean Ecology Award is given to organizations that take a leadership role in eliminating unnecessary plastic waste.
HELP US FIND SEA STARS
In 2013-2014, 99% of some sea star species along much of the North American Pacific coast experienced a massive die-off. THE SEA STAR SURVEY is a search for sea stars along the Pacific Coast.
MARINE BINGO
It's the fastest, funnest way to learn to love the ocean... and retain what you learn. The complete educational game set includes 25 bingo cards, 52 encyclopedic sea animal flash cards/playing cards, seashell bingo markers, and an online teaching program with tools including powerpoints, videos and instructions for different games.
The things we have admired were beginning to decay. We said, 'we have to do something. We have to enter the fight... protect what you love.'
We're speaking out for the ocean.
You can, too.
We are people who care deeply about the ocean and the food products that come from it. We want to help preserve the ocean for future generations.
In addition to our research, educational media and cleanup campaigns, we want to engage the public to reduce single-use plastic waste and get future ocean caretakers excited about marine science and ocean ecology.
Yes, we are a California Public Benefit Company (ID# 5312804), designated 501(c)(3).
As a member-based action company, we intend to:
- Get the next generations excited about the ocean
- Enable resources for community involvement in ocean ecology
- Use the most advanced technologies to understand and monitor ocean health
- Detect and help to eliminate sources of contamination
- Publicly promulgate clear test results on marine and seafood samples
- Support other nonprofits focused on ocean and environmental remediation
- Apply environmental policy pressure on companies and legislators
- Remind people to think about the ocean, and what we flush into it
Ocean degradation refers to the rapid changes in water and sea life chemistry that have occurred in the past few decades, due to contaminants ranging from petroleum and nuclear waste to the vast quantities of sewage dumps and chemical pollutants which affect all sea life and Earth's ecosystem at large.
Ocean crimes are activites that destroy ocean life and violate international policies.
Today, ocean crimes are largely overlooked, and human industry continues to contaminate the water and seafood products with petrochemicals, radiation poisoning, microplastics and toxic metals like mercury. All major ocean products are at risk of contaminants,
including tuna, salmon, crab, lobster, shrimp, scallops, clams, and even Fillet-O-Fish sandwiches.
Our mission is helping to preserve and protect Pacific Ocean ecosystems of the U.S. West Coast. Our work involves research focused on marine life chemistry, reducing the flow of toxic materials into our ocean, and producing educational materials for the next generations of environmental caretakers and marine scientists. Scroll through our recent activities!
You don't have to be a Watchdogs member to follow our pledge. Watchdog members agree to:
- Do no harm. Try to avoid adding to environmental pollution that contributes to ocean degradation.
- Share information. Show others how to avoid contaminating the marine environment. (But don't be annoying.)
Fish are important.
Anyone can be a Marine Watchdog!
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