Featuring Alex Rose, Science Editor, Ocean Geographic Magazine & Co-Founder, Sea Americas

Alex Rose has been part of the Ocean Science Radio family for nearly a decade — you may remember her reporting live from MACNA, the Marine Aquarium Conference of North America, back in 2016. Today she's back, this time in the guest chair, with something considerably bigger on the horizon.

Alex is the Science Editor of Ocean Geographic Magazine, founder of ocean conservation company Blue Ring, an Explorers Club Fellow, a professional violinist, and now co-host and producer of Sea Americas — a cinematic expedition documentary series following the world's largest all-female dive team as they document the most threatened marine sanctuaries across the Americas.

In this conversation, Andrew and Dr. Frances Farabaugh sit down with Alex to talk about what it means to dive with purpose in a moment of accelerating loss — from the functionally extinct reef-building corals of the Florida Keys, to the surprisingly intact reefs of Cuba, to the political headwinds threatening the protected waters these stories depend on. They also dig into the Sea Americas Seed & Spark crowdfunding campaign, the conservation model behind Blue Ring, and what it actually feels like to cry underwater while trying to document a dying reef.

Hope, Alex reminds us, needs to be a verb. Let's actively hope.

Links:

Sea Americas: seaamericas.com

Blue Ring: bluering.blue

Ocean Geographic: ogsociety.org

Mission Blue (Netflix)

Last episode featuring Alex Rose - https://oceanscienceradio.simplecast.com/episodes/macna