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Loggerhead Marinelife Center Announces

2024 Go Blue Awards Finalists

Loggerhead Marinelife Center (LMC) has announced for Cetacean Research and
the finalists for its prestigious 15th Annual Go Blue Conservation (CCRC),
Awards, with presenting sponsor Tampa General Hospital and director and principal
(TGH). The Go Blue Awards recognizes individuals, investigator of Cook
businesses, and nonprofits that promote, implement, or Islands Whale Research
contribute to a “blue” lifestyle of marine conservation, (CIWR). This nurse-
while making significant impact improving and protecting turned-whale biologist
our oceans, beaches, and wildlife. Tickets are on sale to has spent the better part
attend the awards dinner at the center on Friday, Jan. 26, of three decades studying
2024, at 6 p.m. humpback whales in
The Eleanor Fletcher Lifetime Achievement Award Rarotonga, Cook Islands,
was named for the Loggerhead Marinelife Center’s aiding in the creation
founder who was an innovative pioneer in marine of a 2-million-square-
conservation. Eleanor Fletcher educated thousands of kilometer whale sanctuary
children about sea turtles and initiated cultural change and educational research
to preserve and protect the species. The recipient of this center in Rarotonga.
award exemplifies a lifelong, extraordinary commitment • Todd Steiner ─ founder
to marine conservation education through their work or and executive director of
volunteer activities. Turtle Island Restoration
• Jim Toomey ─ Creator of the daily comic strip Ne t wo rk, a n oc e a n
Sherman’s Lagoon, which is syndicated in more than advocacy and research nongovernmental organization with • Marina Barto ─ president and cofounder of Surface71,
150 newspapers across 20 countries and in six languages. offices in California, Texas, and Hawaii. For more than a nonprofit organization run solely by students to raise
Sherman’s Lagoon combines two of Jim’s lifelong 30 years, Steiner and Turtle Island Restoration Network awareness about plastic pollution and ocean conservation
passions: art and marine life. His cartoon books have sold have been leading advocates for the world’s oceans and throughout Palm Beach County schools.
more than 500,000 copies worldwide. Jim has received marine wildlife. • Cash Daniels and Ella Grace Galaski-Rossen ─
the prestigious Environmental Hero Award twice from • Scott Vogel ─ an LMC program assistant and founders of the nonprofit The Cleanup Kids. Since they
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration hospital interpreter, Vogel has lived a life of volunteer were 7 and 6 years old, respectively, Cash and Ella have
(NOAA) “for using art and humor to conserve and protect activism and education. He has a lifelong passion for shown exemplary leadership skills and passion toward
our marine heritage.” ocean conservation, and has been active in promoting marine life conservation.
The Blue Ambassador of the Year Award recognizes a stewardship to future biologists and conservationists. • Asa Miller ─ a 16-year-old junior at Edgemont Jr./
person who has made significant contributions to ocean The Blue Hatchling Youth Award recognizes a student Sr. High School in Scarsdale, N.Y., Asa is a coral reef
conservation through volunteering and work-related up to the 12th grade who has contributed to marine restoration specialist, diver, and filmmaker, particularly
efforts. The finalists are: conservation through volunteer activities. The finalists
• Nan Hauser ─ president and director of the Center are: Loggerhead News on page 14

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