COLLABORATORS

2026. W2O cultivates new and existing partnerships and collaborations with a number of groups engaged in ocean health and discovery. By celebrating the successes of other organizations and engaging in relevant and meaningful collaborations, we are continuing to expand and imagine new solutions and advance public understanding of the ocean. A rising tide truly lifts all boats.

JENA DECLARATION
The Jena Declaration is built upon the premise that information is not reaching the people that need it most: those directly affected by climate change, shifting ocean patterns, and increasingly unpredictable systems response. In essence: a top-down strategy to inform and communicate the change required is not working. To reach key demographics, The Jena Declaration calls for a new strategy to achieve living sustainably everywhere, through integration and partnerships globally to further amplify their efforts and ours, using World Ocean Forum and World Ocean Explorer as two outlets that explore concepts, conversations, and innovations to secure our future. W2O is partnered on initiatives that bring their collaborators together to share stories and solutions of bottom-up strategies that are working to create a sustainable future for next generations.

AMERICAN SHORELINE PODCAST NETWORK
ASPN is a national media company aggregate of ocean news and podcast resources, engaging audiences with a wide range of ocean topics by a wide variety of podcast hosts. WORLD OCEAN RADIO podcast can now be found on the ASPN channel; we're excited to be part of this ongoing conversation to further our mutual goal of getting responsible, science-based ocean information to audiences around the world and empowering an informed coastal citizenry. Visit coastalnewstoday.com/all-podcasts to learn more. We also encourage you to subscribe to Coastal News Today, the ASPN news platform: coastalnewstoday.com.

OUTLAW OCEAN MUSIC PROJECT
Where Music Meets Journalism
All music in this project is based on THE OUTLAW OCEAN, a New York Times best-selling book by Ian Urbina that chronicles lawlessness at sea around the world. The reporting touches on a diversity of abuses ranging from illegal and overfishing, arms trafficking at sea, human slavery, gun-running, intentional dumping, murder of stowaways, thievery of ships, and other topics. The music is an act of solidarity across geography and language, and an attempt at storytelling from written word to music. It is a captivating collection of inspired songs. Take your pick: listen to ambient tracks, classical, electronic or hiphop.
Learn more: theoutlawoceanmusic.com
 

SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE
A virtual aquarium deep sea exhibit
In 2021 the W2O embarked on exciting new collaboration in support of the WORLD OCEAN EXPLORER virtual aquarium. Funded by the Schmidt Ocean Institute, the virtual DEEP SEA exhibit to showcase encounters and discoveries during Schmidt's many deep sea expeditions, most specifically their Australia Campaign in 2020. These expeditions of deep sea environments, seamounts, sub-marine canyons and coral ecosystems brought to light a cache of new species and information that will be made available in Explorer's Deep Sea exhibit.