Please join us on November 18th at 6:00 PM via ZOOM for the 2021 GOMMEA Annual Meeting and special presentation by Dr. Barry Rock on “Detecting Marine Plastic Debris from Earth Orbit”. The meeting will be made available starting at 5:45pm and begin promptly at 6:00pm. At that time we will have our annual meeting of the membership and vote on this year’s Board of Directors and Officers. We will then introduce our special speaker and host a Q&A session at the end, wrapping up by 7:30pm.

Attendance to the GOMMEA Annual Meeting is FREE for members but you must register in order to receive the meeting link.

To renew your membership, login at http://gommea.org/account.
If you are not yet a member, sign up at: http://gommea.org/membership.

Once logged in, visit http://gommea.org/gommea-annual-meeting-2021 to register for the Annual Meeting.

Please register by November 16th.

Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conservation

October 22, 2021: Join us for our 2021 Virtual Symposium, presented by the New Hampshire Coastal Program and Gulf of Maine Marine Education Association

Learn about current initiatives that are protecting marine life and our ocean environment, and how you can help!

This year’s event will be virtual via Zoom. We’re planning an exciting afternoon of speakers who will talk about issues related to the Gulf of Maine.  The Symposium will run from 1-5 PM, and will be followed by our Fall Intern Research Symposium from 5-6 PM.

Registration: https://blueoceansociety-974650.square.site/product/blue-ocean-symposium-registration/110?cs=true&cst=custom

UNH’s Ocean Discovery Day will take on a new look this year! Instead of our traditional in-person event, we will host the Ocean Discovery Challenge, a marine-focused interactive scavenger hunt! This virtual event will take participants on missions either online or in-person, where they will be challenged to make discoveries about our oceans, seacoast, and estuaries.

The Ocean Discovery Challenge will take place November 1 – 15, 2021.

It is free and open to the public, especially fun for school groups, clubs, and families.

Participants join the scavenger hunt via the smartphone/mobile app GooseChase. The scavenger hunt is a collection of “missions” that participants complete to earn points. Players can track their progress as well as others’ through the online leader board. Those with the most points at the end of the game will be eligible for cool prizes!

https://marine.unh.edu/ocean-discovery-day

Register soon!

HURRICANE HEROES STEM WEEK CHALLENGE REGISTRATION

Join GOMMEA on a Whale Watch, one of the field trips for the 2021 NMEA Conference.

We’ll depart from the harbor in Rye, NH at 2:00 (Granite State Whale Watch).

Registration is through the NMEA website:

https://www.marine-ed.org/conference/2021/fieldtrips

Gulf of Maine EcoArts: Current Project

The first Gulf of Maine EcoArts project  is a multi-year art/science/educational initiative that focuses on the changes in biodiversity in the Gulf due to climate change and other human impact.

Making art, and out of the activity of making art, awakening a sense of connection–to the teeming life in the Gulf of Maine, to the science and the scientists who are busy seeking ways to sustain that life, to the students, teachers, climate activists, and fellow artists who are collectively inviting us to take up our destiny as stewards—this is what the project is all about.

Goals: To promote stewardship and awareness by reconnecting people with the natural world – to our neighbors in the Gulf of Maine. We are all related to and connected with each other.  We are the Wild.

The central piece – a fictional Ecosystem: A 12’x24’x30’ sculpture, film installation featuring a 24 foot North Atlantic Right whale, and a selection of other endangered and threatened marine denizens, will be designed and built by six professional Maine sculptors and filmmakers and about two hundred students ranging from middle-school through college level.

The sculpture will be made with 95% beach debris and recycled, re-purposed materials.

First venue: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, Maine – Summer/Fall  2021.

http://www.gulfofmaineecoarts.org/the-project/