Our World – Underwater Scholarship Society in North America

  On mission with Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation and the International League of Conservation Photographers representing iLCP, photographer Michele Westmorland and I had the unique opportunity to shoot the turquoise waters where Tahiti’s famous black pearls are grown.   Pearls come in a rainbow of colors, but Gambier has the reputation for the [...]

The Living Ocean Foundation team is hard at work at Hao Atoll, far flung in the Tuamotu Islands of French Polynesia. We’re six days into the first EVER comprehensive reef assessment for this beautiful coral atoll. Normally I would feel right at home on the fish team counting schools, but this cruise has a twist. [...]

Scholars are all about teamwork!  Thank you to Oscar for writing this awesome blog about our time together being archaeologists in the Dominican Republic.   After the cold and dark waters of North Carolina, Megan and I boarded planes headed for the Dominican Republic.   We were going to work with Dr. Charlie Beeker from [...]

How much do we really know about the planet’s coral reefs? Destinations like Hawaii or Cayman get millions of visitors every year, but have you heard the latest from Mangareva Atoll or Navassa Island? Could you find them on a map? (No Google cheating) The Khaled bin Sultan Living Ocean Foundation is circling the globe [...]

Hey friends and followers! I recently saw Jill Heinerth’s new documentary film We Are Water and you need to too!  Check out the We Are Water trailer (and my debut as an associate producer)!   We Are Water is both a passionate expose’ of today’s out of control water usage and an imaginative exploration of [...]

In the middle of November I hopped on a plane for Las Vegas and the 2012 DEMA show!   This event was my chance to reconnect within the industry and schedule plans for the second half of my scholarship year. DEMA was also the first chance since April to connect with my partners-in-crime– European Scholar [...]

Hi friends and followers! I decided to mix up the model a little and write to you before an experience rather than after. With the holidays fast approaching I was wishing for a white Christmas- a VERY white Christmas! Santa seems to be smiling on me this year and in only a few hours I [...]

  I spent an inspiring week in Monterey, California attending the BLUE Ocean Film Festival and Conservation Summit. In only its third session BLUE has already grown to be the premiere ocean event of its kind and collected the highest talent from the science, media, film-making, conservation, and public communities. In a week jammed by [...]

Today kicks off November. The leaves are turning and temperatures around the states are creeping down from balmy summer nights to brisk winter mornings.  I, too, left summer behind on my roadtrip up the West coast from sunny southern California to the much damper Pacific Northwest. I’m checking in with you this week from Friday [...]

More from Megan’s adventures:   While I was in Rhode Island I had the chance to spend several days at the Inner Space Center, part of the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography.  The ISC is the control home-base for ocean exploration occurring globally on the R/V Nautilus and NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer. As [...]