{"id":330,"date":"2015-11-23T13:43:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T18:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/science\/?p=330"},"modified":"2024-01-30T15:55:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T20:55:27","slug":"spc-alumni-sylviaearle-oceanographerenvironmentalist-wearespc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/science-mathematics-educational-information\/spc-alumni-sylviaearle-oceanographerenvironmentalist-wearespc\/","title":{"rendered":"SPC alumna @SylviaEarle Oceanographer\/Environmentalist #WeAreSPC"},"content":{"rendered":"

This December, we will celebrate a momentous occasion \u2013 SPC\u2019s 150,000th graduate. What does an SPC graduate look like? Check out our graduate and alumni stories<\/a> and be prepared to be inspired. Help us spread the word and share your own story today on social media by adding the hashtag #WeAreSPC<\/a> to your posts and tweets on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n

SPC alumna Sylvia Earle is an award-winning oceanographer, aquanaut and author. A National Geographic explorer-in-residence, Earle is most recently known for her work to safeguard the oceans with Mission Blue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Earle’s Mission Blue initiative aims to increase protected areas of the ocean from today’s level of four percent up to 20 percent by the year 2020. St. Petersburg College is proud of Sylvia Earle and many of our alumni and current science students who are committed to learning about how to save the planet.<\/p>\n

“I wish you would use all means at your disposal – films, expeditions, the web, new submarines – to create a campaign to ignite public support for a global network of marine protected areas; Hope Spots large enough to save and restore the blue heart of the planet,” said Earle in this 2009 TED Prize presentation.<\/p>\n

The images alone on this presentation are riveting.<\/p>\n