BLUE WATER AUSTRALIA SUMMIT 2023
JUNE 8TH from 8:30am to 5:00pm ACST
Ambassadors and Guardians of the Oceans
The Leadership of Ambassadors and Guardians of the Oceans will address, the Blue Water Summit 2023 specifically on our two global challenges – that our Climate and our Oceans are indivisibly linked; and that plastic is the villain for healthy oceans.
These issues will be explored by individuals, drawn locally and from across the world, who show amassing leadership in articulating a need for respect – a respect for the Oceans, demonstrated by action. These Ambassadors and Guardians are film makers and philosophers, academics and activists, and individuals whose lives are linked to the Oceans.
The Blue Water Summit 2023 will welcome their narratives and share the inspiration derived from these stories.
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PROGRAM 2023
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Program Outline 2023
- Opening Address and Welcome to Country
- A Global Network of Ocean Carers
- Stories from Individuals for whom the ocean is life
- Organisations which can activate citizens
- Our Climate and our Ocean are mutually inclusive
- Large-scale ocean circulation and its influence on regional & global climate
- Ocean health is our health – seagrass beds and the accelerating efforts to harness and store more carbon dioxide
- Planet vs Plastic
- Addressing the GPGP- great pacific garbage patch and other waste dumps
- Circulate economy is a rescue economy – working both sides of the problem
BLUE WATER SUMMIT 2023 - LEADERSHIP by AMBASSADORS AND GUARDIANS OF THE OCEANS
9:00 am Opening Address followed by Welcome to Country
- Introduction: William Ehmcke, Blue Water Institute
Key note: Dr Sue Close, Minister for Climate, Environment and Water, Sth Australia
A GLOBAL NETWORK OF OCEAN CARERS (part 1)
10:00 am Ocean Ambassadors – Stories from Individuals for whom the ocean is life
- Capt Peter Hammarstedt, Sea Shephard, West Africa region
Sarah Ward, Dalian Marine University Underwater and maritime cultural heritage
Andrew Stevenson, Director of “Where the Whales Sing”
OUR CLIMATE AND OUR OCEAN ARE MUTUALLY INCLUSIVE
11:00 am Ocean health is our Health: seagrass beds and the accelerating efforts to restore natural habitat
- Sea Grass Restoration : Dr Alice Jones Senior Lecturer in Resilience Ecology, Future Coasts Lab, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of SET, ANU
KI Oyster Reef Restoration Project: Alex Comino, Coasts Project Officer
Reef Life Survey : Jamie Hicks, Marine Ecologist, Marine Science, Science and Information branch, Strategy, Science and Corporate Services
12:00 pm Large-scale ocean circulation and its influence on regional & global climate
- Matthew England, Scientia Professor of Ocean & Climate Dynamics, University of New South Wales
12:30 pm Lunch break
01:00 pm Marine education program launch
- Shelley Paull PhD, Marine Coordinator, National Parks and Wildlife Service South Australia
PLANET VS PLASTIC
1:30 pm Addressing the GPGP- great pacific garbage patch and other waste dumps
- Ben Lecomte: In 2019 Ben swam through the highest concentration of ocean plastic in the world, The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, recording data for science.
Babet De Groot , PhD Candidate in Government and International Relations, University of Sydney, researching the global governance of marine plastic pollution, including the United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee
Geena Harnisch, ANZPAC Plastics Pact Program Coordinator at Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO)
2:30 pm Circulate economy is a rescue economy – working both sides of the problem
- Doug Woodring, Founder Ocean Recovery Organisation
Joao Sousa, Senior Programme Developer, The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
A GLOBAL NETWORK OF OCEAN CARERS (Part 2)
3:30 pm Ocean Ambassadors – Stories from Individuals for whom the ocean is life
Heidi Tait (CEO & Founder), Tangaroa Blue Foundation, an Australia-wide not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the removal and prevention of marine debris.
Lisa Blair – Sails the World, who in 2017 became the first woman to sail solo around Antarctica. Author Facing Fear an inspiring true story.
4:30 pm Closing Remarks
- TBC Aaron James. Professor of Philosophy, University of California, and publisher of ‘Surfing with Sarte’
Currently panellists are being invited through an expression of interest in participating in Blue Water Summit 2023
BLUE WATER AUSTRALIA SUMMIT 2022
JUNE 8TH from 8:30am til 5:00pm ACST
Program Outline 2023
The Blue Water Australia Summit will stream up to 8 hours broadcast of discussion gathering from environmental thought leaders, ocean advocates, storytellers, with a focus on the Great Southern Oceans.
The Blue Water Australia Summit is designed to encourage our global family to think broadly about the ongoing effects on our ocean’s population, climate change — and how changes within the Southern Ocean have far reaching impacts worldwide. Our Oceans operate as a single interconnected organism and what impacts locally affects globally.
PROGRAM 2022
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“Bringing a voice to our Oceans and Waters”
(ORIGINALLY BROADCAST ON JUNE 8T 2023 – CLICK TO VIEW DISCUSSION )
8:30 am Welcome to the Blue Water Summit
Traditional Ceremony – Welcome to Country
Opening Remarks and acknowledgement of partnerships
9:00 am Discovery and Recovery
The Age of Discovery and Recovery of Antarctica
Taking a retrospective view of the first 20 years (1901 to 1922) of Antarctic exploration and research and coinciding in 2022with the 100 year anniversary of the Explorer Shackleton’s death.
Speakers Include:
Tim Jarvis, Adventurer
Peter Maddern, Publisher
Mike Libecki, National Geographic Explorer
Discussions
10:00 am Establishing Marine Parks for Restoration
To achieve parity with land set aside for conservation, the area of marine parks needs to double ocean-wide, accommodating for both current uses and future sustainability needs. And to protect specialist breeding grounds there is an immediate necessity to further the establishing of new, plus extending of existing, Marine Protection Areas (MPA) in the Antarctic waters.
Speakers Include:
Lyn Goldsworthy, AM – PhD Candidate and long-time Antarctic and high seas activist, IMAS
Tim Jarvis, Adventurer
11:00 am From Hunter to Harvest
A Hungry World likes Fish too Much
How is fishing and specifically sustainable fisheries together with evolving Aquacultures, in their many forms and locations, transforming opportunities to feed a hungry world?
Speakers Include:
Dr Kate Rodda, Program Leader, Aquaculture Environment Program, PIR
Derek Walker, Chairman, KutiCo
Matthew Blyth, Director ‘Australian Wild Prawn’
12:00 pm Regenerative Wealth for the Oceans
An introduction with explanations of the new boundaries for the emerging Blue Economies – from harvesting tidal areas to extraction and synthesising new-age materials from marine life.
Speakers Include:
Rob Lewis; Marine Scientist
Dr. Pia Winberg, Chief Scientist, Phycohealth
Jilly Middleton, Lead Marine Campaigner, Environment Tasmania
1:00 pm Musical interlude / Lunch
Heather Lander, Cellist, performing Humpback Harmony
1:45 pm A Cure for Ocean Blindness and Improving Ocean Literacy
Tools and Technologies to See and Hear the Ocean
When we see the ocean, especially at sunset, all looks at peace. For our knowledge of the oceans to expand and be more meaningful, we need to ‘look’ below the surface, engaging with C21st tech to remove our blindness.
Speakers Include:
Alan Noble, Philanthropist, AusOcean
Dan Monceaux, Danimations
Dr Prue Francis, Deakin University
Discussions
2:45 pm Citizen Science to the Rescue
The oceans cover over twice that of land on earth and are no way as accessible. And yet for something so vast, our base knowledge is poor, and we are not schooled in Ocean Literacy. Yet citizen science is on the raise, recruiting thousands of researchers armed with passion and social media, to collaborate with stakeholders and to support new answers to old questions.
Speakers Include:
Gretta Pecl, Marine ecologist, REDMAP
Jane Bamford, Artist
Tony & Phyll Bartram, KI Dolphin Watch
3:45 pm First Nation Sea-stories
Lesson from Traditional ways
First Nation dwellers used and valued the sea, and future success will benefit from gaining an understanding of forgotten skills and Aboriginal knowledge, lore, and customs for greater community engagement with Our Oceans
Speakers Include:
Mickey O’Brien; Cultural advisor
4:45 pm Closing Remarks / future direction
William Ehmcke, Co-founder, Blue Water Institute
PANELLISTS
FOR the Blue Water Australia Summit 2022
9:00 Discovery and Recovery : The Age of Discovery and Recovery of Antarctica
Tim Jarvis, Adventurer
Tim Jarvis, Adventurer
Peter Maddern, Publisher
Mike Libecki, Explorer
Lynda Goldsworthy
Antarctic Conservation Policy, IMAS University of Tasmania
11:00 From Hunter to Harvest: A Hungry World likes Fish too Much
Dr Kate Rodda, Program Leader
Aquaculture Environment Program
Derek Walker, Ngarrindjeri leader
Indigenous Land and Sea Corp
Matthew Blyth
Director ‘Australian Wild Prawn’
Rob Lewis, Marine Scientist
cience Without Bounds
Jilly Middleton
Lead Marine campaigner, Environment Tasmania
Musical interlude ‘Humpback Harmony’
Performed by Heather Lander, Cello
A Cure for Ocean Blindness and Improving Ocean Literacy: Tools and Technologies to See and Hear the Ocean
Alan Noble, Philanthropist
Dan Monceaux, Danimations
Dr Prue Francis
Senior Lecturer in Marine Science, Deakin University Marine Science Centre
Gretta Pecl, Marine ecologist
Jane Bamford, Artist
Tony Bartram, KI Dolphin Watch
First Nation Sea-stories
Mickey O’Brien; Cultural advisor
PROGRAM 2021
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8:00 am Welcome to the Blue Water Summit – Greg Reitman
8:15 am Indigenous Elder Ceremony
Performance by: Jewell Praying Wolf James & Sit Ki Kadem, Lummi Nation
8:30 am Opening Remarks – Dr. Wallace Nichols
8:45 am Keynote Amir Dossal, President Global Partnerships
9:00 am Innovation to Packaging: A World Beyond Plastic
Moderator: Lina Constantinovici, Founder, Innovation 4.4
Panellists: Joao Sousa, IUCN, Susan Koehler, CMO, Footprint, Kevin Quandt, VP, Supply Chain & Sustainability, Sweetgreen
10:00 am Global Intervention: Ending Plastic Pollution
Moderator: Kelly Gallagher, Producer, Jammin’ Planet Productions
Panellists: Tim Grabiel, EIA Int’l, Larke Williams, US State Dept, Erin Simon, Head, Plastic Waste + Business, WWF, Melissa Wang, Scientist, Green Peace Int’l
11:00 am What It Makes to be Oceans Hero
Moderator: Daisy Kendrick, Ocean Generation
Panellists: David Rothschild, The Lost Explorer, Captain Oonya Layolle, Oceans activist, Andrea Crosta, Sea of Shadows, Jo Ruxton, Ocean Generation
12:00 pm The Future of Antarctica & Protection of the Southern Ocean
Moderator: Ashlan Cousteau, Journalist & Explorer
Panellists: Phillipe Cousteau, TV Host, Author, Cassandra Brook, Professor, Environmental Studies, University, Colorado University, John Weller, critically acclaimed Antarctica writer, photographer, and filmmaker
1:00 pm Regenerating Wealth for the Oceans
Moderator: Christopher Salata, ICV
Panellists: Andrea Neal, Bring Back the Blue, Aaron Berger, Innovation 4.4, Millicent Pitts, Ocean Exchange
2:00 pm Ocean Coastline Health & A Changing Climate
Introduction: United Nations Secretary – General Special Envoy to the Ocean Ambassador Peter Thomson
Moderator: Jessie Turner, International Alliance to Combat Ocean Acidification
Panellists: Dr. Justine Kimball, California Ocean Protection Council, Mr. Espen Ronnberg, Climate Change Advisor, SPREP, Dr Michael Acquafredda, NOAA Ocean Acidification Program, Mr. Matias Alcalde, Director, Chile California Council, Garth Nagel, US Navy, Senior Planner
Music Break 15 minutes- Garth Stevenson, Musical Performance, Whale Sounds
3:15 pm Sacred Story of the Oceans
Moderator: Shivani St. George, UN NGO representative
Panellists: Kalani Souza, Olohana Foundation, Puna Dawson, Hawaiian Elder, Tessa Theresa, Water Steward
4:15 pm Films for Social Change
Moderator: Greg Reitman
Panellists: Sally Aitken, Filmmaker, Tina Dalton, Producer, Valerie Taylor, Underwater Photographer
5:00 pm Closing Remarks / Awards Ceremony
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