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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
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granddaughter of Eleanor Fletcher; Greg Marshall, marine
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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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Photos by Loggerhead Marinelife Center

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