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Leveling the Playing Field

Leveling the Playing Field

ocean-related academic and career opportunities between students from underrepresented communities and those from communities that traditionally have had access to greater resources. Ocean Connect is committed to providing students from all backgrounds an equal...

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Featured Connection: Aquaculture

Featured Connection: Aquaculture

The Business of Feeding the World According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, approximately 4.5 billion people get a significant source of their daily protein intake from fish. But that doesn’t mean billions of people are going down to...

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Craft Your Own Internship or Research Opportunity

Craft Your Own Internship or Research Opportunity

Check out our four-part video tutorial series Creating Your Own Opportunity. Creating Your Own Opportunity shows you how to create your own ocean-science-related internship or research opportunity when you have not been able to secure a spot in a more formal program....

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The Week in Climate Change News

The Week in Climate Change News

A (non-comprehensive) list of interesting and relevant climate change, climate policy, and environmental justice stories. Europe’s Swing to the Right Threatens Global Climate Policy. Many populist, nationalist and far-right parties have attacked environmental, climate...

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World Oceans Day 2024

World Oceans Day 2024

On World Oceans Day, people everywhere can unite to celebrate and take action for our shared blue planet, with one ocean and one climate, which connect us all. Get together with your family, community, and /or your company, and join with millions of others around our...

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Featured Connection: Ecotourism

Featured Connection: Ecotourism

As a multi-trillion-dollars business, travel, and tourism is a vitally important part of the economy. Pre-COVID, the travel and tourism industry was responsible for over 330 million jobs and contributed over 10 percent to the global gross domestic product.  But...

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Internship & Research Opportunities

Internship & Research Opportunities

The Opportunities Database contains information on ocean-related academic programs, awards, contests, enrichment programs, externships, internships, fellowships, grants, research projects, scholarships, summer programs, and training programs available to students from...

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The Week in Climate Change News

The Week in Climate Change News

A (non-comprehensive) list of interesting and relevant climate change, climate policy, and environmental justice stories. In a historic move, Vermont becomes 1st state to pass a law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay for climate change damages. Vermont has passed...

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Featured Connection: Biotechnology

Featured Connection: Biotechnology

Technology Comes Alive Biotechnology, simply put, is technology that utilizes the biological systems found in living organisms (or the living organisms themselves) to develop and make new commercial products. While cutting-edge developments in areas such as cloning...

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How Safe is Your Drinking Water?

How Safe is Your Drinking Water?

A recent study found that the increasing frequency of droughts, heatwaves, storms, and floods is threatening the availability of water and its quality across the world. Researchers from Utrecht University in the Netherlands analyzed 965 cases of river water...

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Summer 2024 Opportunities

Summer 2024 Opportunities

New internships, research programs, fellowships and acdemic programs are being added to the Ocean Connect Opportunities Database on a daily basis. Some of the recent additions include research programs in the following areas: Sustainability Environmental Science...

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