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Blue Convergence Fund is a grant-making organization that supports research partnerships and strategic outreach - bringing together interdisciplinary experts, managers, policymakers, and communities around issues in ocean and coastal sustainability.
🦑 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...
🦑 Join us on Mon, Mar 16 for an evening of poetry with our own @emilyknight.bsky.social. Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🦑 Thank you to all who filled out our Request for Information to inform our Ocean Biodiversity program! Next up - we'll be releasing a Request for Proposals on Monday, Mar 2 and Informational Webinar all about it on Wednesday, Mar 4 at 2pm ET/1pm CT/11am PT.
📅 Register: lnkd.in/eH4gxYDC
🦑 Our Feb newsletter is out! Dive into our Ocean Biodiversity program as we prepare to release a Request for Proposals (RFP) on Mon, Mar 2. And as a bonus.. a virtual poetry reading! mailchi.mp/blueconverge...
Our February newsletter from @blue-convergence.bsky.social is out - join us for Ocean Biodiversity (forthcoming RFP!) and a little poetry! mailchi.mp/blueconverge...
🦑 Our latest newsletter is out! Dive into our Ocean Biodiversity program - which has a forthcoming Request for Proposals: mailchi.mp/blueconverge...
🦑 A reminder that our Ocean Biodiversity Request for Information is still open through Feb 15. As we develop a Request for Proposals - we will hold an informational webinar about it on Wed, March 4.
✍ RFI: forms.office.com/Pages/Design...
📅 Webinar registration: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🦑 Join us on Monday, March 16, 8pm ET/5pm PT for another virtual poetry reading featuring contributors The Nature of Our Times - hosted by our own @emilyknight.bsky.social
Register: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🦑 We've had two virtual listening sessions for Chesapeake Bay and Mobile Bay - today we have our final for Puget Sound. Even if you can't make it or are not in any of those regions, you can still provide input on ocean biodiversity - respond to our RFI: forms.office.com/Pages/Design...
🦑 Today we'll have our first listening session for the Chesapeake Bay region. But we also currently have out a written Request for Information - if you are unable (or even if you're able) to attend any listening session you can still share with us your perspective!
forms.office.com/Pages/Design...
🦑 Our first virtual listening session for Ocean Biodiversity is tomorrow for the Chesapeake Bay region and it's looking like we'll get a great turnout.
📅 Chesapeake Bay: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📅 Mobile Bay:
zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📅 Puget Sound: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🦑 OPEN – OCEAN BIODIVERSITY REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
JAN 15 – FEB 15
To inform future funding, we want to understand people's experiences of ocean biodiversity - what it is, what it provides, and how (and whether) it shows up in community sustainability:
forms.office.com/Pages/Design...
🦑 The best way to keep up with Blue Convergence Fund in 2026? Sign up for our newsletter: blueconvergence.org/newsletter-s...
🦑 On the value of community engagement - ideas emerge that never would have otherwise.
Webinar 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wk...
Webinar 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjJo...
🦑 From Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean - Richard Dacosta on the importance of community exchanges. When people can learn from each other, our challenges seem more solvable and less daunting.
Webinar 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wk...
Webinar 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjJo...
🦑 Special edition newsletter announcing virtual public listening sessions for our Ocean Biodiversity program in Chesapeake Bay, Mobile Bay, and Puget Sound. Join us to share local needs around better stewarding ocean biodiversity for people and nature.
mailchi.mp/blueconverge...
🦑 And that's a wrap on the Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean webinar series. We've learned so much and will continue sharing insights like this from Juliano Palacios Abrantes.
Nov 7 recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wk...
Dec 11 recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjJo...
🦑 STARTING SOON (3pm PT/6pm ET/11pm GMT): Our final webinar on Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean. We have learned so much from these experts about how much can be done (it's a lot). Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🦑 "It's not just what you do, it's how you do it." - Jake Kritzer, NERACOOS
You can do the right research, but it still won't inform management, and this quote captures why. Research and community engagement must be integrated on a common platform of mutual respect throughout.
🦑 TODAY: Final webinar on Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean. At our first (Nov 7), experts like Sarah Lester provided her vision for what is needed next.
Register for today: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Recording (Nov 7): www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wk...
🦑 Expert Laurel Field on creating hotspots of refuge as well as acute impacts, enabling managers to act now to target protections and areas of sustainable use. Final webinar on Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean tomorrow (Thurs) at 3pm PT/6pm ET/11pm GMT. Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🦑 Get to know our Grants and Operations Manager, Mohammed Alhammami in our latest newsletter. He makes us function and has a fascinating background in Arab Studies, International Development, and Public Policy.
mailchi.mp/blueconverge...
🦑So many insights from Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean... it can be done, and these researchers are showing us how. We'll host a final webinar tomorrow at 3pm PT/6pm ET/11pm GMT.
📅 Register for Dec 11: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🎦 Recording from Nov 7: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wk...
🦑 Meet the people behind our organization - get to know our Grants and Operations Manager, Mohammed Alhammami in our latest newsletter. mailchi.mp/blueconverge...
THURS: Final webinar on our Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean. We're now featuring insights from experts like Fresia Villalobos Rojas who is working among communities to link actionable research with management in the Eastern Tropical Pacific.
Register for Thurs: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🦑 TOMORROW! Join @jasonlandrum.bsky.social and @emilyknight.bsky.social for the launch of our Ocean Biodiversity program. Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
