California State Parks is celebrating World Ocean Week this week with Parks Online Resources for Teachers and Students (PORTS), a free distance-learning program.
As part of the week-long celebration, State Park divers while underwater in Whalers Cove at Point Lobos State Park Reserve, south of Monterey, spoke Wednesday with the winners of the World Ocean Day logo contest for K-12 schools.
Throughout the week, activities include arts and crafts programs, story time read-along, PORTScasts and virtual underwater sessions with divers. Krey said they've been doing these from classrooms across the coast with topics like tidepools and jellyfish, in line with what they're learning in school. PORTScasts, created in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, gives free, live, public broadcasts to students, teachers, and families.
For Erika Delemarre, Marine Protected Area project and outreach coordinator, diving came from a childhood love of the ocean. Patrick Webster, a volunteer diver on the State Parks dive team who started diving in 2009 and was joining Delemarre underwater, said during his career that he has seen huge climate change impacts on the ocean but also people trying to make a difference.
A lot of that does come down to decisions that national and state governments are making, like creating protected areas, according to Delemarre. For individual actions, it's about supporting what protections are in place and respecting them, for example not fishing or collecting shells in protected areas.
"So wherever you find yourself in the world, if you're inland, if you're on the coast, if you're in the mountains, wherever you find yourself, getting involved about local community-based work helps protect that whole network that we're talking about with the 30x30," Webster said.
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