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      loggErhEad nEwS from page 18                        The Blue Business of the
                                                        Year Award/Nonprofit  of
        • Scott Vogel ─ an LMC program assistant and hospital   the Year Award  recognizes
      interpreter, Vogel has lived a life of volunteer activism and   a business or nonprofit
      education. He has a lifelong passion for ocean conservation,   that  has  made outstanding
      and has been active in promoting stewardship to future   contributions to promoting
      biologists and conservationists.                  conservation or restoration
        The Blue Hatchling Youth Award recognizes a student up   of marine life or ecosystems
      to the 12th grade who has contributed to marine conservation   through its work, outreach,
      through volunteer activities. The finalists are:  practices, products, or
        • Marina Barto ─ president and cofounder of Surface71,   technology. The finalists are:
      a nonprofit organization run solely by students to raise     •  Inwater  Research
      awareness about plastic pollution and ocean conservation   Group ─ a small, nonprofit
      throughout Palm Beach County schools.             organization  dedicated  to
        • Cash Daniels and Ella Grace Galaski-Rossen ─ founders   rescuing and researching
      of the nonprofit The Cleanup Kids. Since they were 7 and 6   numerous marine species,
      years old, respectively, Cash and Ella have shown exemplary   including sea turtles, elasmobranchs, and bony fishes. Inwater   more than 100 nonprofit organizations within the music
      leadership skills and passion toward marine life conservation.  has a strong focus on marine conservation and education, with   festival, and raised over $4 million for ocean conservation
        • Asa Miller ─ a 16-year-old junior at Edgemont Jr./Sr.   research projects spanning across both coasts of Florida.  research, efforts, and education.
      High School in Scarsdale, N.Y., Asa is a coral reef restoration     • Rock the Ocean’s Tortuga Music Festival ─ founded in     • Upwell Turtles ─ a nonprofit committed to supporting
      specialist, diver, and filmmaker, particularly known for his   2013 with the mission of raising funds and awareness for   the research, data collection, conservation, and management
      work and research in his homeland of Cuba.        ocean conservation, Tortuga and Rock the Ocean have hosted   of open ocean habitats in the recovery of threatened or
                                                                                                           endangered marine turtles. Upwell launched the “Lost Years
               LET US HELP YOU                                                                             hopes of protecting and preserving habitats.
                                                                                                           Initiative,” a satellite study that tracks sea turtle migration in
                                                                                                             The finalists have been evaluated by an esteemed panel of

                                                                                                           select finalists and winners. This year’s judges include Sally
         Ship Your Valuable Packages & Furniture                                                           independent judges who will review the submitted criteria to
                                                                                                           Murray, daughter of LMC Founder Eleanor Fletcher; Susan
                                                                                                           Murray, deputy vice president of Oceana U.S. Pacific and
                                                                                                           granddaughter of Eleanor Fletcher; Greg Marshall, marine
         •  CLOTHING          •  SCULPTURES                  •  CUSTOM PACKING AND CRATING                 biologist and filmmaker; Joel Sartore, longtime contributing
         •  DISHES            •  ARTWORK                     •  ESTATES PACKING AND                        photographer to National Geographic magazine and author
                                                                                                           of The Photo Ark: One Man’s Quest to Document the World’s
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                                                                                                           into the Scuba Diving Hall of Fame; Dr. Wallace J. Nichols,
                                                                                                           marine biologist and author; Sylvia Earle, Ph.D., president
                               WE PACK AND                                    FREE                         and chairman of Mission Blue and a National Geographic
                                                                                                           Society Explorer in Residence; and Brian Skerry, award-
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                                                                             LOCATION                      producer.
                                                                                                             To purchase tickets or to sponsor the Go Blue Awards,
                                                                                                           visit marinelife.org/connect/goblue.
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