Oceana aids at the blue carpet

The Ocean Heroes Award was created by Oceana in 2009 to recognize an exceptional personal commitment to ocean conservation.

The first winner, announced on World Oceans Day, June 8, 2009, was John Halas, a marine biologist and manager of the Upper Region of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

Halas, who won a $500 Nautica gift certificate and an outgoing voicemail greeting by Ted Danson, has been working to protect coral systems in Florida since 1981. He developed an environmentally friendly anchor and mooring buoy system that prevents damage to coral reefs and has worked to implement this anchorage system in 38 countries.

Bob Schoelkopf was the runner-up for his work rescuing and rehabilitating seals, dolphins, sea turtles and other marine animals in New Jersey. Shark expert Andy Dehart earned the third most votes for his work educating the public about sharks.

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Avatar up for Nine Oscars

Avatar is the story of an ex-Marine who finds himself thrust into hostilities on an alien planet filled with exotic life forms. As an Avatar, a human mind in an alien body, he finds himself torn between two worlds, in a desperate fight for his own survival and that of the indigenous people. More than ten years in the making,Avatar marks Cameron’s return to feature directing since helming 1997’s Titanic, the highest grossing film of all time and winner of eleven Oscars® including Best Picture. He transforms the environments and characters into photo realistic 3D imagery that will transport the audience into the alien world rich with imaginative vistas, creatures and characters.This is a movie that will entertain the whole family over and over again –© 20th Century Fox

Avatar, Wins Golden Globes Best Movie Best Director

Avatar is the story of an ex-Marine who finds himself thrust into hostilities on an alien planet filled with exotic life forms. As an Avatar, a human mind in an alien body, he finds himself torn between two worlds, in a desperate fight for his own survival and that of the indigenous people. More than ten years in the making,Avatar marks Cameron’s return to feature directing since helming 1997’s Titanic, the highest grossing film of all time and winner of eleven Oscars® including Best Picture. He transforms the environments and characters into photorealistic 3D imagery that will transport the audience into the alien world rich with imaginative vistas, creatures and characters.This is a movie that will entertain the whole family over and over again –© 20th Century Fox

Ocean Acidification: Oceana advertising campaign in Copenhagen

Because ocean acidification threatens all marine life, Oceana has invested in an advertising campaign to highlight the most urgent goal:  reducing CO2 emissions to achieve atmospheric levels of 350 parts per million (ppm) or less as soon as possible.
The three advertisements that Oceana will display in Copenhagen, Denmark, throughout the entire United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting, are depicted here:

Global warming is increasing ocean temperatures and raising sea levels, creating a host of problems for the oceans and ocean wildlife.Recent discoveries have revealed that global warming is not the only problem for the oceans resulting from the massive amounts of carbon dioxide we are releasing into the atmosphere.

These excessive amounts of carbon dioxide are actually changing the chemistry of the oceans, making them more acidic.www.oceana.org

Arianna Huffington and Deepak Chopra, M.D. Honored at Oceana Partner Awards Gala

Celebrity attendees included January Jones, Neal Gray CEO CTNDigital, Morgan Freeman, Ted Danson

Deepak Chopra,Keri Selig, Arriana Huffington, Ed Begley Jr.,Zach Galifianakis, Jusin Bartha

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