One of our favourite things to do is to take the ocean to inland communities. While you can never be more than an hour from the coast in the UK, amazingly 1-in-5 UK children have never even seen the sea. So last weekend, we took our ocean dome to Xplore! Science Discovery Centre's Wonder Day in Wrexham, North Wales. While we didn't meet Ryan Reynolds <doh>, we did chat to over 950 people about the wonder of our ocean and educate people about #oceanplastic! When it comes to #oceanliteracy and engaging people with the ocean, we aim to remove as many barriers to access as possible; free, easy to get to, family events offer a perfect opportunity to talk with people that wouldn't ordinarily identify as being ocean advocates. We also aim to change the dialogue around the ocean; often, ocean education is a tide of depressing facts that leaves audiences numb or hopeless. We know that passion and enthusiasm is contagious and being that all the coolest animals live in the ocean, we foster a respect for the marine environment by showcasing the awesome creatures that live there. After all, people protect what they respect. #oceaneducation #marineeducation #STEMlearning
Incredible Oceans
Events Services
The science and art of communicating about life below water: training, education, festivals and events
About us
Changing climate, plastics, pollution, acoustics, over-fishing: our ocean is known to be under intense pressure, yet surveys show that many people are unaware of these topics and less that 1 in 5 children in the UK have visited the coast. We believe that if people better understand & feel passion for the ocean, they will care more about solutions. That’s where Incredible Oceans fits in. Our expertise is in communication, community engagement & outreach to diverse audiences. We are a non-profit company that matches the truth of science with the emotional power of culture & art to make knowing about our marine world vibrant, appealing & accessible. We draw on our strong maritime heritage whilst also using the sciences of mind & brain to appeal to the values & motivators that influence people’s decision-making, causing positive behavioural change. Our proven expertise is in developing and delivering festivals & events, large and small where, funded by corporate sponsors, science institutions and agencies, we provide interactive, fun & robust environmental art and science for demographics not necessarily attracted to science or environment; ‘non-self-selecting audiences’. Our skills are commissioned by scientific, advocacy & corporate organisations to help them better communicate critical environmental issues. Our team train & mentor organisations’ staff & individuals, to deliver effective communication, with participants, artists, creative experts, community groups and organisations, co-designing and co-producing innovative outreach activities. Our education work, funded by grant-giving bodies, reaches young people through educationalists, teachers and media; collaborating to produce impactful video content, schools visits & links to resources for the classroom. We are a collaborative platform working with others to educate about UN Sustainable Development Goal 14 'Life Below Water'.
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http://www.incredibleoceans.org/
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- Events Services
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- 2-10 employees
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- London
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- Nonprofit
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- 2016
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This is we spent #WorldOceanDay! What did you get up to?!
Oceanographer; science presenter; communications trainer; plant science advocate
I always enjoy #WorldOceanDay especially as it always coincides with Cheltenham Festivals, #CheltenhamScienceFestival. This year, I ran a day of #sciart schools’ workshops showcasing the importance of creativity in science by getting pupils to draw different objects under the microscope. In the evening, Tammy Horton from National Oceanography Centre brought along a selection of #deepsea creatures and together, we ran a still-life drawing art class. Tammy even brought along a never-before-seen deep-sea shrimp and showcased how to taxonomically record a new species. Such a privilege to be one of a handful of people to see this! And on the next day, I gave a sold out show in Cheltenham Town Hall to 1000 7-to-11-year-olds about ocean myths and the real sea creatures that inspired them! #sciencecommunication #oceanliteracy #publicengagement #STEAM
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We're super excited to have Elissa ABOARD! Looking forward to a summer of bringing the ocean out to communities across the UK.
It’s a-BOAT time I announce that I’ve joined Incredible Oceans as a Project Manager and Presenter 🩵 I would love to SEA you if you’re at Blue Earth Summit in Brighton tomorrow, if so, give me a WAVE! I SHORE am excited to attend events this Summer with our Ocean Dome. Sling me a line if you’d like to book a WHALEY fun educational day for your little hatchlings or a TURTLEY JAWsome away day for your business! 🐋 #newjob #oceanconservation #underthesea #savethesea #marineconservation #education #professionalpirate #imonaboat
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One of our directors just published this paper looking at the effects of climate change on phytoplankton. Enjoy!
Oceanographer; science presenter; communications trainer; plant science advocate
Our latest paper is out in Frontiers In Marine Science! So what did we do? Well... #climatechange is heating the upper ocean making the top layer warmer so increasing the temperature difference between the upper ocean and cooler, deeper water. If you're a microscopic phytoplankton cell, this means that you can get stuck lower down (where there's less light) so you grow slower. But if you're a phytoplankton cell that can float or swim, you can get into this nice warm, bright, upper layer and grow quickly. So climate change is changing which phytoplankton species can live where. And we wanted to test this. So... we ran some experiments at Umeå University Marine Science Centre in Sweden. We pumped a natural #phytoplankton population from the #BalticSea into a set of massive tanks (called #mesocosms - each one held 2 tons of water!). We set up different conditions in the tanks; some were calm and others were mixed up (turbulent). And we measured how the phytoplankton adapted to this new environment - which species did well, and which ones not so well. In doing this experiment, we also came up with a new way of making turbulence in the lab, which we think is much better than all the other ways people makes turbulence in the lab. Big thanks to co-authors Mehdi Cherif, Danielle Wain, Lee Bryant, Emily Slavin, and Henrik Larsson as well as all the people that helped us with the experiment: Andreas Lorke, Sonia Brugel, Siv Huseby, Annie Cox, Anastasia Tsotskou, Elaine Fileman and the folks at Yokogawa Fluid Imaging Technologies. https://lnkd.in/eE_3_UxM #marinebiology #marinescience #marineecosystems #marineresearch #climateresearch