Naturalist Night: One People One Reef

August 25 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM | CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Price: $12 adults / $6 children | Members 50% off.

Location: Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History

Micronesian outer Island communities are on the front lines of ecological and cultural change, and are facing declines in critical reef resources, and the benefits that healthy reefs provide. One People One Reef is a unique collaboration between a team of western scientists, local practitioners, chiefs and leaders, and community members to combine our collective knowledge to address these ocean challenges. We will discuss the approach, and the unprecedented results (multi-faceted) we are seeing in these remote islands of Yap state, Federated States of Micronesia–and why it matters to ocean conservation everywhere.

About the speakers:

Nicole Crane is a Senior Conservation Scientist with the Oceanic Society, and a faculty in Biology at Cabrillo College. She is one of the Principal Investigators of the One People One Reef project, with a focus on working with communities to manage reefs and resources.

Giacomo Bernardi is a faculty in the EEB Department at the University of California Santa Cruz, with a focus on fish ecology and evolution. He is the ‘fish man’ on the One People One Reef team.