This article is part of the blog series ‘Meet the members’ in which you’ll get to know the EMSEA members, what drives them and what inspires them. They’ll share their experience, their good practices, their challenges. They’ll talk about what ocean literacy means to them and how they hope to reach it. Today we meet Géraldine Fauville, once co-founder of EMSEA and now Associate Professor at the...

Based in Alexandroupolis (Greece), not far from the Evros delta and lagoons, Thanos brings environment into primary education. Persuading future teachers to make their pupils more environmentally conscious is part of his job, he says, ‘especially since technically, they don’t have to’. Since environmental science in general and ocean literacy in particular are all too often absent from school...

This article is part of the blog series ‘Meet the members’ in which you’ll get to know the EMSEA members, what drives them and what inspires them. They’ll share their experience, their good practices, their challenges. They’ll talk about what ocean literacy means to them and how they hope to reach it. Today we meet Diogo Geraldes, manager of education, guest engagement and experience at Oceanário...

This article is part of the blog series ‘Meet the members’ in which you’ll get to know the EMSEA members, what drives them and what inspires them. They’ll share their experience, their good practices, their challenges. They’ll talk about what ocean literacy means to them and how they hope to reach it. Today we meet Elisabet (Eli) Bonfill i Molina, co-founder of Plàncton/Plàncton Diving and ProBlue...

This article is part of the blog series ‘Meet the members’ in which you’ll get to know the EMSEA members, what drives them and what inspires them. They’ll share their experience, their good practices, their challenges. They’ll talk about what ocean literacy means to them and how they hope to reach it. Today we meet Russell Arnott, the driving force behind the UK-based Incredible Oceans. 

Meet Chris P. Nwachukwu, founder of Green Promise Initiative.

Mariana holds a PhD in Marine Biology, her research interests include the characterisation and drivers of benthic communities, and materials produced by marine invertebrates and their application.
Marina is currently a researcher working at the Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies.

Meet Robert Rocha, Associate Curator of Science and Research at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts, USA.