Panels
Super South Summit
March 31, 2026
I was invited to speak on a panel at the second annual Super South Summit in Atlanta. The summit focuses on climate issues and opportunities in the southeast, and our panel was focused on communicating the realities of climate change without making our audience feel disillusioned and hopeless and thus disengaging from the issue. Our panel was me, two professors, and Maiya May, the host of PBS’s Weathered.
Blue Tech Week
November 6, 2018
At the 10th Annual Blue Tech Week in San Diego, organized by the Maritime Alliance, I was a speaker and moderator of a panel on fishing and netting gear alternative solutions. Blue Tech Week brings together scientists, policy makers, and entrepreneurs as they promote blue tech and blue jobs. I also moderated a panel for Blue Tech Week in 2020.
PAGI
October 1-4, 2018
The Plastics Awareness Global Initiative (PAGI) was a multidisciplinary symposium hosted at Scripps that hosted international scientific experts on marine plastics, as well as members of the industry, nonprofit and art/activism sectors. There were two panels open to the public, the second of which I moderated. I also ran a four day working group of scientists that will result in a peer-reviewed paper.
The Benioff Ocean Initiative is an innovative program at UCSB aimed at finding and funding real solutions to ocean problems. One of the first problems they are tackling is marine debris, and one of the first events they held was a summit on marine debris before California voted on the statewide plastic bag ban. This summit brought together scientists, economists, educators, and activists. This article is a synopsis of the panel, written by Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Benioff Plastic Summit
October 12, 2016