World Ocean Journal

WORLD OCEAN JOURNAL is a digital magazine on ocean culture and solutions to today’s ocean issues. Each volume includes essays, interviews, art, exhibits, and more, profiling the vital impacts of the ocean on our lives.

Volume 7
Release date: November 2020
This issue will be devoted to Solutions. We'll feature work by emerging ocean leaders doing real, grassroots exploratory work. We are excited to compile individual projects and groups working on practical solutions into one innovative and surprising collection.

WORLD OCEAN JOURNAL Volume 7, part one
SOLUTIONS
Released December 2020
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Volume 6
Release date: December 6, 2019
The essays gathered in this issue are taken from the more than 530 transcripts for our weekly audio feature, World Ocean Radio. Some of the essays are journalism; some are opinion; others are lyrical reflections; some are poetry; all are derived from the wide, deep, and dynamic ocean, the sea that connects all things.
 

WORLD OCEAN JOURNAL Volume 6
REFLECTIONS ON THE WORLD OCEAN
Released December 2019
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Volume 5
Released January 2019
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WORLD OCEAN JOURNAL Volume 5
OCEAN LITERACY
Released January 2019
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In this issue of Volume 5 of the WORLD OCEAN JOURNAL:
- The Essential Principles of Ocean Literacy, Defined
- Supporting Content for Each Principle
- Graphs, Charts and Diagrams of the Water Cycle
- The Facts About Sea Level Rise
- The Coastal Zone
- Visualizing Climate and Weather
- Encyclopedia of Life
- Marine Protected Areas and the Species We Don't Know
- Mapping the Ocean Floor
- Alternative Maritime Education Around the World
- Global Citizen Science Initiatives
- Much More
 

WORLD OCEAN JOURNAL Volume 4
Released November 2017
OCEAN AND HUMAN HEALTH
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WORLD OCEAN JOURNAL Volume 4
OCEAN AND HUMAN HEALTH
Released November 2017
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Contributors to Vol 4 of the WORLD OCEAN JOURNAL include:
- Arizona State University
- Atlantic Holdfast Seaweed Co.
- Chris Clarke
- Folia Water
- John Kerry, Secretary of State
- Sandra Kynes
- Iceland Ocean Cluster
- Jessica Macdonald
- Dr. Harshad Malve
- New England Ocean Cluster
- Ocean Health Index
- Peter Neill, W2O
- Robert Jones, Nature Conservancy
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- Scuba Diver Life
- Thor Sigfusson
- Dr. Gregory Stone
- Nishan Degnarain
- US Global Change Research Program
- Wallace J Nichols

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WORLD OCEAN JOURNAL Volume 3
WATER IS LIFE
Released December 2016
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WORLD OCEAN JOURNAL Volume 2
ISLANDS
Released June 2015

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Contributors to Volume 2 of the WORLD OCEAN JOURNAL:
- Peter Neill: Thinking Like an Island
- Pres. Tommy Remengesau: Keynote at the UN Healthy Oceans Forum
- Ghislaine Maxwell: UNESCO Garbage Patch State
- Lincoln Paine: Review of Atlas of Remote Islands
- Joe Quirk & The SeaSteading Institute: Can Floating Islands Save the Ocean?
- Fogo Arts: Residency-Based Contemporary Art from Newfoundland, CA
- The Blue Halo Initiative: Barbuda--Using the Ocean Without Using it Up
- Lewis Pugh: No Man Is an Island

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WORLD OCEAN JOURNAL Volume 1
(Released January 2014)
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