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Loggerhead Marinelife Center Celebrates Strides

In Marine Conservation At 15th Annual Go Blue Awards

Loggerhead Marinelife Center (LMC) honored local
and national achievements in marine conservation during
its prestigious 15th Annual Go Blue Awards presented
by Tampa General Hospital. This year, four individuals,
businesses, and nonprofits were recognized with
exemplifying a “blue” lifestyle of marine conservation.
Each award recipient has significantly impacted,
improved, and protected our oceans, beaches, and wildlife.
The 2024 Go Blue Awards and their recipients are:
Eleanor Fletcher Award (Lifetime Achievement):
Jim Toomey, Alexandria, Va. ─ Toomey is the creator
of the daily comic strip “Sherman’s Lagoon,” which
is syndicated in more than 150 newspapers across 20
countries and in six languages.
Blue Ambassador of the Year Award: Nan Hauser,
Brunswick, Maine – Hauser is president and director
of the Center for Cetacean Research and Conservation
(CCRC), and director and principal investigator of Cook Rebecca Mott with Inwater Research
Islands Whale Research (CIWR). Group Jim Toomey Asa Miller
Blue Hatchling Youth Award: Asa Miller, Hartsdale,
N.Y. ─ A 16-year-old high school junior, Asa is a Blue Business of the Year
coral reef restoration specialist, diver, and filmmaker, Award/Nonprofit of the Year
particularly known for his work and research in his Award: Inwater Research
homeland of Cuba. Group, Jensen Beach, Fla.
─ The small, nonprofit
organization is dedicated
to rescuing and researching
numerous marine species,
i n c l u d i n g se a t u r t l e s,
elasmobranchs, and bony
fishes.
For more information on
this year’s winners, please
visit marinelife.org/goblue.

Photos by Tracey Benson
Photography

Andy Dehart, president and CEO of Loggerhead Marinelife Center