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Loggerhead Marinelife Center Announces

2024 Go Blue Awards Finalists

Loggerhead Marinelife Center (LMC) has announced and Hawaii. For more than
the finalists for its prestigious 15th Annual Go Blue Awards, 30 years, Steiner and Turtle
with presenting sponsor Tampa General Hospital (TGH). Island Restoration Network
The Go Blue Awards recognizes individuals, businesses, and have been leading advocates
nonprofits that promote, implement, or contribute to a “blue” for the world’s oceans and
lifestyle of marine conservation, while making significant marine wildlife.
impact improving and protecting our oceans, beaches, and • Scott Vogel ─ an LMC
wildlife. Tickets are on sale to attend the awards dinner at program assistant and hospital
the center on Friday, Jan. 26, 2024, at 6 p.m. interpreter, Vogel has lived a
The Eleanor Fletcher Lifetime Achievement Award was life of volunteer activism and
named for the Loggerhead Marinelife Center’s founder who education. He has a lifelong
was an innovative pioneer in marine conservation. Eleanor passion for ocean conservation,
Fletcher educated thousands of children about sea turtles and has been active in promoting
and initiated cultural change to preserve and protect the stewardship to future biologists
species. The recipient of this award exemplifies a lifelong, and conservationists.
extraordinary commitment to marine conservation education The Blue Hatchling Youth
through their work or volunteer activities. Award recognizes a student
• Jim Toomey ─ Creator of the daily comic strip up to the 12th grade who
Sherman’s Lagoon, which is syndicated in more than 150 has contributed to marine
newspapers across 20 countries and in six languages. conservation through volunteer
Sherman’s Lagoon combines two of Jim’s lifelong passions: activities. The finalists are:
art and marine life. His cartoon books have sold more than • Marina Barto ─ president
500,000 copies worldwide. Jim has received the prestigious and cofounder of Surface71,
Environmental Hero Award twice from the National Oceanic a nonprofit organization
and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) “for using art and run solely by students
humor to conserve and protect our marine heritage.” to raise awareness about
The Blue Ambassador of the Year Award recognizes a person plastic pollution and ocean
who has made significant contributions to ocean conservation conservation throughout Palm
through volunteering and work-related efforts. The finalists are: Beach County schools.
• Nan Hauser ─ president and director of the Center for • Cash Daniels and Ella
Cetacean Research and Conservation (CCRC), and director and Grace Galaski-Rossen ─
principal investigator of Cook Islands Whale Research (CIWR). founders of the nonprofit The
This nurse-turned-whale biologist has spent the better part of Cleanup Kids. Since they were
three decades studying humpback whales in Rarotonga, Cook 7 and 6 years old, respectively,
Islands, aiding in the creation of a 2-million-square-kilometer Cash and Ella have shown
whale sanctuary and educational research center in Rarotonga. exemplary leadership skills
• Todd Steiner ─ founder and executive director of Turtle and passion toward marine
Island Restoration Network, an ocean advocacy and research life conservation.
nongovernmental organization with offices in California, Texas, • Asa Miller ─ a 16-year-old junior at Edgemont Jr./Sr.
High School in Scarsdale, N.Y., Asa is a coral reef restoration Loggerhead Marinelife Center on page 17
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