🦑 Join the International Alliance to Combat Ocean Acidification for a vibrant panel discussion about Communicating OA in a Changing World. Our own @emilyknight.bsky.social will join other experts.
Register: www.oaalliance.org/events/webin...
🦑 Join @emilyknight.bsky.social for a virtual panel on communicating ocean acidification in a changing world. OA is an issue that can feel overwhelming - but in telling our stories of action and agency - we learn there's much we can do.
Wed, Apr 22, noon ET: www.oaalliance.org/events/webin...
🦑 Thank you to all that applied to our Ocean Biodiversity Request for Proposals focused on Mobile Bay, Chesapeake Bay, and Puget Sound! Check out this blog to understand why we believe ocean biodiversity matters - for people and nature: blueconvergence.org/launching-ou...
🦑 Check out our new Cross Currents blog posts:
✍ Awarded Projects from the 2025 Climate Resilient Fisheries Engagement Grants Request for Proposals
✍ Ocean Biodiversity – For People and Nature
✍ One Ocean, One Future: Insights from WIOMSA on Co-Management
blueconvergence.org/cross-curren...
🦑 Check out our new Cross Currents blog posts:
✍ Awarded Projects from the 2025 Climate Resilient Fisheries Engagement Grants Request for Proposals
✍ Ocean Biodiversity – For People and Nature
✍ One Ocean, One Future: Insights from WIOMSA on Co-Management
blueconvergence.org/cross-curren...
If you’re curious about how people in different geographies are tackling climate resilient fisheries, read our Cross Currents Blog by Dominique Kone about our newly funded engagement projects: x.gd/oyz9L
🦑 Closing in a little over 2 hours (noon ET) - our Ocean Biodiversity Request for Engagement Proposals. We've already received a number of great ideas - get yours in if you work in Mobile Bay, Chesapeake Bay, or Puget Sound: blueconvergence.org/2026-ocean-b...
🦑 Our Apr newsletter is out, including the first 11 projects in our Climate Resilient Fisheries program, a reminder about the deadline for our Ocean Biodiversity RFP (Apr 15 at noon ET), and a link to the recording for the Nature of Our Times virtual poetry reading.
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🦑 At noon ET tomorrow (Wed), our Ocean Biodiversity Request for Proposals closes. If you work at the interface of research, policy, and management to better steward ocean and coastal resources in Mobile Bay, Chesapeake Bay, and Puget Sound - consider applying:
blueconvergence.org/2026-ocean-b...
Our Climate Resilient Fisheries Program funds projects and supports engagement efforts that advance the science and practice of climate resilient fisheries around the world. Click here to learn about our first cohort of funded projects: x.gd/fMTV3
🦑 Just two days left - our Ocean Biodiversity Request for Proposals closes noon (ET) on Wed, April 15. Our focus is on three regions of the US: Mobile Bay, Chesapeake Bay, and Puget Sound. To learn more: blueconvergence.org/funding/
BCF is funding 11 expert teams around the world to bolster the resilience of fisheries and fishing communities. These projects will bring diverse groups, knowledge, and perspectives together to tackle this challenging issue.
💻 Blog: x.gd/Zl2of
🌊 Program Page: bit.ly/climate-fish...
🦑 Our April newsletter is out - in it we announce 11 new projects in our Climate Resilient Fisheries program (the outcome of our 2025 Request for Proposals), and a reminder that our Request for Engagement Grants for Ocean Biodiversity closes next Wed (Apr 15) at noon ET.
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We’re thrilled to announce 11 new projects advancing climate resilient fisheries funded from our 2025 Climate Resilient Fisheries Engagement RFP:
✍ Blog: x.gd/Zl2of
🐟 Program Page: bit.ly/climate-fish...
Be on the lookout to join a webinar series to learn more about these projects.
🦑 On Wed, Apr 15 - our Ocean Biodiversity Request for Engagement Projects will close. This opportunity is focused on bringing together knowledge holders and decision-makers to make biodiversity information more useable in management.
Learn more: blueconvergence.org/funding/
🦑 REMINDER: Our 2026 Ocean Biodiversity Request for Proposals is still open. Deadline for proposals is Wednesday, April 15, by noon ET/11am CT/9am PT.
📣 All info here: blueconvergence.org/2026-ocean-b...
🦑 Ocean biodiversity not only feeds us, but it also inspires us.
@emilyknight.bsky.social shares a bit of her poetry and her experiences working across communities to illuminate how ocean biodiversity is actually at the center of our lives.
blueconvergence.org/launching-ou...
🦑 Our own Dominique Kone discusses the ways in which we can bring scientific research and local knowledge together to not only paint a richer picture of our coasts but enhance climate resilient fisheries.
blueconvergence.org/one-ocean-on...
🦑 What creates the enabling conditions for ocean and coastal sustainability? What are approaches that bring diverse minds together to accelerate action? These are the kinds of questions the BCF team and our grantees will explore in the new Cross Currents blog.
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🦑 We are putting out a special edition newsletter – our new Cross Currents blog is now live. This will be a space for us to explore the belief that drive BCF’s mission: That ideas and solutions for our oceans and coasts are stronger when diverse minds come together.
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🦑 Jaleel Shujath is a poet and Ph.D. candidate in Urban Sustainability and Water Resources... he is also a featured reader at our virtual poetry reading on Mon (Mar 16) evening at 8pm ET.
Jaleel Shujath:
natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/what-the-gan...
Register:
zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🦑 Our special edition newsletter came out today announcing the new Cross Currents blog, sharing the recording from the 2026 Ocean Biodiversity Request for Proposals Informational Webinar, and reminding you to join us Monday evening (8pm ET) for a virtual poetry reading.
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🦑 Lucille Lang Day is the author of 7 poetry collections and 4 chapbooks... she is also one of our featured poets at the The Nature of Our Times virtual poetry reading (Mon, Mar 16, 8pm ET).
✍ At Lake Tahoe:
natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/at-lake-tahoe/
📅 Register:
zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🦑 One of our featured poets next week (Mon, Mar 16, 8pm ET), William Allen. Read his poems, Soundscape Pando and At Tivoli Bays, in The Nature of Our Times online gallery.
✍ William Allen:
natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/tag/william-...
📅 Register for the reading:
zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🦑 IN ONE WEEK (Mar 16, 8pm ET), our own @emilyknight.bsky.social will host a virtual poetry reading featuring contributors to The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America's Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders.
Register: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🦑 Reminder that later today we will hold an Informational Webinar about our Ocean Biodiversity Request for Proposals for Chesapeake Bay, Mobile Bay, and Puget Sound.
Request for Proposals details: blueconvergence.org/2026-ocean-b...
Informational Webinar registration: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🦑 If you have questions about the RFP – joins for an Informational Webinar on Wednesday, March 4 at 2pm ET/1pm CT/11am PT. Do register even if you can’t attend to ensure you receive the recording: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🦑 Our Ocean Biodiversity RFP for three regions in the US – Chesapeake Bay, Mobile Bay, and Puget Sound – is now open. We will focus on themes in each region, including shared challenges, such as making existing biodiversity information usable. RFP details: blueconvergence.org/2026-ocean-b...
We will hold an Informational Webinar about the Request for Proposals for Ocean Biodiversity on Wednesday, March 4 at 2pm ET/1pm CT/11am PT. Join us: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Our Ocean Biodiversity Request for Proposals is now open! We are seeking engagement projects that mobilize knowledge for action in three regions – Chesapeake Bay, Mobile Bay, and Puget Sound. Learn more: blueconvergence.org/2026-ocean-b...