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About Us
Blue Ocean is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to promoting awareness & conservation of the marine environment through education and research in New England.
We are based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with a small office on Pleasant Street in downtown Portsmouth. Blue Ocean Society was founded by two whale watch naturalists, Jen (Hafner) Kennedy and Dianna Schulte, who were frustrated with the lack of translation of open ocean research into information that could be used by the public. We strive to learn more about the Gulf of Maine, and particularly an important habitat called Jeffreys Ledge, and then bring our research to the public through a variety of outreach programs. We hope by sharing information with the public and resource managers, more people will be inspired to learn more about the marine environment and help protect it.
We accomplish our mission through education, research and conservation.
We educate the public about the marine environment through school and group presentations, presentations aboard local whale watch and sightseeing boats, tide pool excursions and beach cleanups, and providing a variety of educational materials.
We research local marine life, particularly endangered marine mammals, through data collection aboard local whale watch vessels. We also collect data on marine pollution aboard vessels and during our beach cleanups. This data is available to the public and for schools to be used in classroom projects. We work with other local whale research organizations including Allied Whale at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor and the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, MA in sharing data and catalogs.
We are actively involved in marine conservation through our beach cleanup and Adopt-a-Beach programs. We also work for conservation through creating awareness of the marine environment and threats to the environment with our educational programs, beach cleanups, internships and volunteer opportunities; keeping our members informed about threats to the Gulf of Maine and its marine life and gaining data that will help us determine which areas endangered species are using, and which areas most need to be protected. |
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