COLLABORATORS

2025
 

W2O cultivates new and existing partnerships and collaborations with a number of groups engaged in ocean health and discovery. By celebrating the successes of other organizations and engaging in relevant and meaningful collaborations, we are continuing to expand and imagine new solutions and advance public understanding of the ocean. A rising tide truly lifts all boats.

JENA DECLARATION
The Jena Declaration is built upon the premise that information is not reaching the people that need it most: those directly affected by climate change, shifting ocean patterns, and increasingly unpredictable systems response. In essence: a top-down strategy to inform and communicate the change required is not working. To reach key demographics, The Jena Declaration calls for a new strategy to achieve living sustainably everywhere, through integration and partnerships globally to further amplify their efforts and ours, using World Ocean Forum and World Ocean Explorer as two outlets that explore concepts, conversations, and innovations to secure our future. W2O is partnered on initiatives that bring their collaborators together to share stories and solutions of bottom-up strategies that are working to create a sustainable future for next generations.

AMERICAN SHORELINE PODCAST NETWORK
ASPN is a national media company aggregate of ocean news and podcast resources, engaging audiences with a wide range of ocean topics by a wide variety of podcast hosts. WORLD OCEAN RADIO podcast can now be found on the ASPN channel; we're excited to be part of this ongoing conversation to further our mutual goal of getting responsible, science-based ocean information to audiences around the world and empowering an informed coastal citizenry. Visit coastalnewstoday.com/all-podcasts to learn more. We also encourage you to subscribe to Coastal News Today, the ASPN news platform: coastalnewstoday.com.

OUTLAW OCEAN MUSIC PROJECT
Where Music Meets Journalism
All music in this project is based on THE OUTLAW OCEAN, a New York Times best-selling book by Ian Urbina that chronicles lawlessness at sea around the world. The reporting touches on a diversity of abuses ranging from illegal and overfishing, arms trafficking at sea, human slavery, gun-running, intentional dumping, murder of stowaways, thievery of ships, and other topics. The music is an act of solidarity across geography and language, and an attempt at storytelling from written word to music. It is a captivating collection of inspired songs. Take your pick: listen to ambient tracks, classical, electronic or hiphop.
Learn more: theoutlawoceanmusic.com

CLIMATE CHANGE INSTITUTE
Promoting resonsible stewardship of human, natural and financial resources
The World Ocean Observatory partners with the Climate Change Institute to distribute visualization of comprehensive data reconstructions of past climate using a global array of ice cores, examination of modern instrumental data, and predictions for future climate. Peter Neill, director of the W2O, received a faculty appointment with the CCI in 2016 and represents the World Ocean Observatory as fellow Research Associate.
Learn more: climatechange.umaine.edu

HEARTS IN THE ICE
2 Women, 1 Trapper's Hut, 9 Months, 6 Science Projects, 1 Mission
Sunniva Sorby and Hilde Fålun Strøm - the first women in history to overwinter in Svalbard solo. Hearts In The Ice aims to bridge science and global citizens by building stories and sharing knowledge to inspire action, so we all play a participatory role in protecting our planet.
Learn more: heartsintheice.com

INTERNATIONAL MARITIME FILM FESTIVAL
An annual juried contest of films celebrating the heritage, spirit of adventure, and ingenuity of boats and waterborne pursuits
Each year the World Ocean Observatory hosts the International Maritime Film Festival held online in fall. IMFF is a celebration of maritime heritage, spirit of adventure, concern for the environment, and ingenuity of boats and waterborne pursuits. Interested filmakers can submit materials via FilmFreeway.
Learn more: maritimefilmfestival.com

KUJATAA WORLD HERITAGE
A 21st century app designed to interpret an ancient
sub-Arctic farming landscape in Southern Greenland
In partnership with the Arctic Futures Institute and the Greenland National Museum & Archives, the W2O developing a smart phone app for the interpretation of the astonishing historical landscape and artifacts located in Kujataa--Greenland's most recent UNESCO World Heritage Site. Kujataa is a stunning, extraordinary landscape that is perfectly preserved as a ruin that imbues spirituality and a reverence for Nature. These are remote places, accessible only by boat with no cell or wireless service, and places where expensive signage does not endure in the harsh weather conditions. The Kujataa app will help to transcend these limitations and will provide visitors to the ruins with specific information in English, Greenlandic, and Danish. IOS only. Android version coming fall 2022.
Learn more: app/kujataa-world-heritage

OCEAN HEALTH INDEX
How healthy is the ocean?
From tourism and recreation to clean waters and biodiversity, from carbon storage and natural products to artisinal fishing opportunities and sense of place, the OCEAN HEALTH INDEX  measures all that we value about the ocean, providing us with a holistic view of how to manage sustainably for future generations. In the coming months, in collaboration with the Ocean Health Index, the W2O is proud to be highlighting the fourteen goals and sub-goals of the Index and how countries are measuring up using the 2020 Index numbers. Read more about that collaboration here.

SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE
A virtual aquarium deep sea exhibit
In 2021 the W2O embarked on exciting new collaboration in support of the WORLD OCEAN EXPLORER virtual aquarium. Funded by the Schmidt Ocean Institute, the virtual DEEP SEA exhibit to showcase encounters and discoveries during Schmidt's many deep sea expeditions, most specifically their Australia Campaign in 2020. These expeditions of deep sea environments, seamounts, sub-marine canyons and coral ecosystems brought to light a cache of new species and information that will be made available in Explorer's Deep Sea exhibit.