Blue Convergence Fund
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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.
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🦑 Our latest newsletter is out, featuring our new Ocean Biodiversity portfolio under the leadership of Program Director Jason Landrum and Director of Outreach & Engagement @emilyknight.bsky.social. Join us: us14.campaign-archive.com?e=__test_ema...
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🦑 A warm welcome to #WIOMSA2025! We are so glad to be here, if you are too, be sure to catch up with our own Sarah Close and Dominque Kone!
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🦑 Join us on Thurs, Nov 6, 8pm ET for an evening poetry reading from The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America's Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders. Register: bit.ly/4gJedgS
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🦑 September newsletter: New Ocean Biodiversity portfolio directed by our own Jason Landrum, invite to a virtual poetry reading hosted by our own @emilyknight.bsky.social, and an invite to a two-part webinar series on Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean. Check it out: bit.ly/42cvsBa
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🦑 Will you be at hashtag #WIOMSA2025? Remember to find our Program Director Sarah Close and Program Officer Dominique Kone. This conference is a wonderful opportunity to understand how science is informing management and policy across the Western Indian Ocean.
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🦑 Our latest newsletter is out, featuring our new Ocean Biodiversity portfolio under the leadership of Program Director Jason Landrum and Director of Outreach & Engagement @emilyknight.bsky.social. Join us: us14.campaign-archive.com?e=__test_ema...
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🦑 Our September newsletter is out and announcing our new Ocean Biodiversity portfolio, a poetry virtual event, and more: mailchi.mp/blueconverge...
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🦑 We're doing something a little different at BCF - we're holding a virtual poetry reading hosted by our own @emilyknight.bsky.social. Come celebrate our oceans and other natural wonders on Thursday, November 6, 8pm ET/5pm PT/2pm HT!

Register via zoom: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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🦑 They are on the leading edge - showing us that yes, MPAs can confer climate resilience but only if climate is explicitly addressed in management frameworks. That takes attention, capacity, and robust investments - but it can be done.
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🦑 Join us for a virtual learning series featuring a suite of researchers working at the intersection of local coastal communities and provincial and national managers to integrate climate adaptation measures into MPA management.

Nov 7: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Dec 11: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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As you sail off into your weekend, remember the best way to keep up with all things BCF is to sign up for our monthly newsletter: blueconvergence.org/newsletter-s...
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🦑 For us at BCF, open discussion is key. At the 5th UN Foundations Dialogue, our Executive Director, Charlotte Hudson joined other funders from all over the world in Tokyo, Japan to discuss our progress now that we are the halfway point of the UN Ocean Decade (2021 - 2030).
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🦑 Check out The Nature of Our Times – an anthology of poetry about America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders – featuring a poem by our own Director of Outreach and Engagement, @emilyknight.bsky.social!

Get your copy: natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org
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🦑 We are coming to #ClimateWeekNYC! If you will be there, connect with our Executive Director, Charlotte Hudson. We just wrapped up a call for proposals for Climate Resilient Fisheries and had a massive response. And that's not we have planned... #ClimateAction #Sustainability
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🦑 Some of our team members are traveling to #WIOMSA2025 in Mombasa, Kenya! Going to be there? Be sure to meet our own Sarah Close, Program Director, Dominique Kone, Program Officer. They are the thought leaders behind our international climate resilient fisheries portfolio.
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🦑 The speakers that will be featured have been working the past few years have been working in communities all over the world to develop knowledge and lay the groundwork for co-governance of MPAs. It will yield great lessons learned on a critical topic!
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🦑 Join us for a webinar series on Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean!

Webinar 1: Friday, Nov 7 8am PT/11am ET/3pm GMT
Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Webinar 2: Thursday, Dec 11 3pm PT/6pm ET/10pm GMT
Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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🦑 Join us for a webinar series on Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean!

Webinar 1: Friday, Nov 7 8am PT/11am ET/3pm GMT
Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Webinar 2: Thursday, Dec 11 3pm PT/6pm ET/10pm GMT
Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Wow. We are beyond excited to dig into the many proposals we received for our Climate Resilient Fisheries RFP! Thank you to all who worked so hard on your proposals - we promise to handle them with care. To keep an eye out for updates: blueconvergence.org/newsletter-s...
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Our Aug newsletter is out! Final reminder to submit to our RFP for Climate Resilient Fisheries by cob Sept 4, upcoming webinar series of Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean, and last but certainly not least - welcome Jason Landrum to the team!
mailchi.mp/blueconverge...
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🦑 Miss our Q&A webinars about our Request for Proposals for engagement grants under our Climate Resilient Fisheries portfolio? Some resources!

RFP webpage: blueconvergence.org/2025-fisheri...
Informational webinar on the RFP: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwoT...
2025 Climate Resilient Fisheries Engagement Grants - Blue Convergence Fund
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🦑 On our reading list - a new paper on monitoring the amazing array biodiversity among California's kelp forests. This work is filling critical research needs in the newly designated Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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This week from our partners and friends @compassscicomm.bsky.social! 🦑
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✨ Upcoming Workshop: Communicating Risk ✨

Every day, we all make decisions that require us to consider risk, but it can be challenging to communicate risk to others in compassionate, meaningful ways. Join us Aug. 8: buff.ly/2kO29Hr

#CommunicationSkills #SciComm #Risk #RiskComm