Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education
Terry Tempest Williams Student Dialogue 2011:"Ocean Conservation and Sustainability"
To print a full-size copy of this year's Terry Tempest Williams Student Dialogue poster please click here. In order to help educate those looking to attend this year's Dialogue, we have put together an informational page for those interested in learning more about "Ocean Conservation and Sustainability." Below you will find the biographies of this year's panelists, links to informative websites, and access to other informational materials. Meet the Panelists!
Sheila has been with the Monterey Bay Aquarium for 20 years, working in Education and Membership before taking her current position with Seafood Watch. As the Seafood Watch program’s Senior Manager of Outreach and Education, Sheila manages the team responsible for developing programs for and communicating with consumers, advocates, chefs and education partners. The Outreach team works with over 200 partners and 2,500 advocates nationwide to spread the word and promote healthy oceans by encouraging ocean-friendly seafood choices.
Vikki Spruill Vikki N. Spruill is president and CEO of Ocean Conservancy, becoming just the fifth person, and the only woman, ever to hold that title in the organization's 40-year history. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Ocean Conservancy—the nation's largest organization dedicated to restoring the health and resiliency of the ocean. Prior to her appointment at Ocean Conservancy in December 2006, Ms. Spruill was president and founder of SeaWeb, a non-profit organization that uses strategic communications techniques to advance ocean conservation. Ms. Spruill led a team there that in 11 years designed and executed innovative programs that led to stronger ocean conservation policies as well as industry and behavior change. Prior to SeaWeb, Ms. Spruill spent 15 years in public relations, including five years as a senior vice president at Ruder Finn, one of the largest independently held public relations firms in the world, where she was responsible for client management and new business development. Ms. Spruill is a member of the board of directors for Sky Truth, and of the boards of directors for Tides Network and Tides Center, and she sits on the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program Advisory Committee. She currently chairs the principals group of COMPASS, the Communications Partnership for Science and the Sea. Ms. Spruill serves on the Advisory Committee for the Ocean Hall of the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum and the Conservation Committee of the SeaChange Investment Fund. She is also a member of the Pew Fellows Advisory Committee, the Ad Council Advisory Committee and represents Ocean Conservancy's membership in the Clinton Global Initiative. Ms. Spruill founded FoundationWorks, a nonprofit organization working with foundations to enhance effectiveness for foundations and grantees. She graduated cum laude from Loyola University in New Orleans with a bachelor's degree in communications and a minor in religious studies. Ms. Spruill received her master's degree in communications from the University of West Florida. Informational ResourcesThe Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education offers a list of online resources to be used by students, facility or anyone who is interested in ocean conservation and sustainability. Sylvia Earle has been at the front of deep ocean exploration for four decades. She's led more than 50 undersea expeditions, as a tireless advocate for our oceans and the creatures who live in them. You can see her engaging TEDx talk at: http://www.tedprize.org/sylvia-earle/ The Ocean Conservancy was founded in 1972, with goals to promote healthy and diverse ocean ecosystems, and to oppose practices that threaten oceanic and human life. The Conservancy's list of priorities includes "Restore Sustainable American Fisheries," "Protect Wildlife from Human Impacts," "Conserve Special Ocean Places," and "Reform Government for Better Ocean Stewardship." www.oceanconservancy.org The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program helps consumers and businesses make choices for healthy oceans. Their recommendations indicate which seafood items are "Best Choices," "Good Alternatives," and which ones you should "Avoid." You can visit their website to get information as well as a pocket guide to eating sustainable seafood: http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/ The Environmental Protection Agency's Oceans and Coastal Protection Division (OCPD) envisions clean and safe oceans and coasts that sustain human health, the environment, and the economy. The mission of OCPD is to protect and restore our ocean and coastal ecosystems by promoting watershed-based coastal management, preventing pollution of the marine environment, monitoring and assessing coastal conditions, and establishing effective partnerships. http://water.epa.gov/type/oceb/ The Environmental Defense Fund is leading the way toward creative, practical solutions to the most critical problems facing our oceans. Their team of scientists and economists work with key stakeholders in U.S. and Caribbean waters to give fishermen a financial stake in fisheries, safeguard biologically rich areas and build new markets for sustainable seafood. www.edf.org/oceans Oceana is the largest international organization working solely to protect the world's oceans. Oceana wins policy victories for the oceans using science-based campaigns. Since 2001, they have protected over 1.2 million square miles of ocean and innumerable sea turtles, sharks, dolphins and other sea creatures. View the following link to take a look at Panelist, Vikki Spruill, speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative's Annual Meeting held on September 20-22, 2011. For Vikki's part in the breakout session called "Waste to Wealth," go to the 40:40 mark. http://www.livestream.com/cgi_breakoutseminar2/video?clipId=pla_959b8a5f-c127-46e3-a9a8-76057473fdba Past Dialogues
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Thursday, November 4, 2010 at 7:00 pm In our 5th installment of the Terry Tempest Williams Student Dialogue, we explored the oft-overlooked issue of e-waste and the people and places it effects. Panelists included Jim Puckett of the Basal Action Network, Eric Otto, Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities, and Jessica Mendes, graduate student at FGCU. The event was co-moderated by Center student assistants Ariel Chomey and Jordan Yingling, and a special invocation was given by Miccosukee elder, Andy Buster. |
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Young People, Communication, and Sustainability New York Times bestselling author Ishmael Beah returned to FGCU to participate in our fourth Terry Tempest Williams Student Dialogue. Panelists included Arabella Daniels of the Student/Farmworker Alliance, Cruz Salucio of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, and Center Advisor Jacob Scott. Jacob participated virtually from Bristol, England using telecommunication software. FGCU President Wilson G. Bradshaw welcomed the panelists and offered opening remarks. The event explored digital collaboration toward sustainability, critical engagement with consumer media, and the theme of hope, despair, and the future in environmental rhetoric. You can access a six-part video of the panel discussion on YouTube by clicking here! Feel free to continue the dialogue using the "comment" feature.
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 Food Systems and Climate Change at Florida Gulf Coast UniversityTuesday, October 11, 2007, 7:00 pm The third Terry Tempest Williams Student Dialogue developed the previous year’s theme of food, ethics, and sustainability by exploring food practices within the context of carbon neutrality at Florida Gulf Coast University.
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Food, Ethics, and Sustainability Tuesday, September 16, 2006, 7:00 pm The second Terry Tempest Williams Student Dialogue was a panel discussion with participants from The Humane Society of the United States, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, California Student Sustainability Coalition, and Worden Farm. The panel discussed ethical and environmental aspects of food, including animal welfare, social justice. |
 Social Justice and Human Rights in Immokalee, Florida
Tuesday, October 18, 2005, 7:00 pm The inaugural Terry Tempest Williams Student Dialogue was a panel discussion with participants from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Guadeloupe Center of Immokalee, Harvest for Humanity, FGCU Professor Ingrid Martinez Rico, Pace Center for At-Risk Girls, and the Student Farmworker Alliance. The panel discussed issues of social justice and human rights in the Southwest Florida farming community of Immokalee, Florida. The panel was moderated by Dr. Maria F. Roca. Oanness Arthur Priztker, Director of Yat Kitischee Native Center, gave the closing response. |
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