SeaQuest: Environmental Communication 

SeaQuest is an international symposium, a three-week course focused on environmental communication. Every summer we bring together high school and secondary school students from all over the world, over Zoom, to discuss and learn about the most pressing issue of our time: climate change and the ocean.

This summer we are learning once again about the central Pacific, a vast network of nations and their people which is rarely covered in school curriculums in the Global North, yet these nations are on the front lines of sea level rise, global warming, and global concerns about coral reef bleaching, fisheries depletion, whale migration, and shark population declines. We learn about the issues—the marine science, the policies, the cultural history—and we explore ways to effect change by reaching out to broader audiences, most specifically with an issue of our magazine SEA Writer.

This is not a Zoom course where you sit and watch lectures. We keep the group small so we can have breakout rooms, discussions, activities, peer-review, and be able to converse and directly ask questions of our experts. Our summer schedule is not entirely set, but expect visits from the likes of plastics researcher Dr. Kara Lavender Law, coral reef scientist Dr. Heather Page, USCG Captain and Pacific enforcement specialist Christopher Nolan, Hawaiian reef fisheries expert and writer Dr. Shreya Yadav, and Tahitian educator and naturalist Herehia Sanford.

Seminars meet Monday-Friday, 6:00-8:30 p.m. ET with approximately 5 hours of additional project work per week. No prerequisites required aside from fluency in English, enthusiasm, and a strong internet connection.