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Our Mission
Blue Ocean
is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to promoting awareness & conservation of the marine
environment through education and research in New England.
We are based in
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with a small office on Pleasant Street in
downtown Portsmouth. Blue Ocean Society was founded by two
whale watch naturalists, Jen (Hafner) Kennedy and Dianna Schulte, who
were frustrated with the lack of translation of open ocean research into
information that could be used by the public. We strive to learn more
about the Gulf of Maine, and particularly an important habitat called
Jeffreys Ledge, and then bring our research to the public through a
variety of outreach programs. We hope by sharing information with
the public and resource managers, more people will be inspired to learn
more about the marine environment and help protect it.
We accomplish our mission
through education, research and conservation.
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We educate the
public about the marine environment through school and group
presentations, presentations aboard local whale watch and
sightseeing boats, tide pool excursions and beach cleanups, and
providing a variety of educational materials.
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We research local
marine life, particularly endangered marine mammals, through data
collection aboard local whale watch vessels. We also collect
data on marine pollution aboard vessels and during our beach
cleanups. This data is available to the public and for schools
to be used in classroom projects. We work with other local
whale research organizations including Allied Whale at the College
of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor and the Provincetown Center for
Coastal Studies in Provincetown, MA in sharing data and catalogs.
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We are actively involved in marine conservation through our beach
cleanup and Adopt-a-Beach programs. We also work for conservation
through creating awareness of the marine environment and threats to
the environment with our educational programs, beach cleanups, internships and
volunteer opportunities; keeping our members informed about threats
to the Gulf of Maine and its marine life and gaining data that will
help us determine which areas endangered species are using, and
which areas most need to be protected.
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