Oceans

Chumbe Island Coral Park is a short video about an island in East Africa, off the coast of Zanzibar that has an eco-resort, which provides environmental education for local students.  A ranger from Chumbe Island introduces a group of Muslim students to eco-architecture and rainforest ecology and also takes them snorkeling on the pristine coral [...]

Lucy Marcus | 2011 | 20 min. | USA

Part 3: Iowa & the Gulf of Mexico discusses the Mississippi Delta—terminus of America’s mightiest river, nursery of one of the nation’s premier fisheries, and lately an unfortunate poster child for ecological disaster—is getting help from an unlikely team of people, in an unlikely place. More than a thousand miles upstream, in the cornfields of [...]

Ralf Meyer, Karen Anspacher-Meyer | 2011 | 25 min. | USA

Part 4 of Ocean Frontiers follows the fishing community of Port Orford, which is taking control of their destiny, by conducting their own brand of conservation. They are protecting ocean habitat and conducting local science projects to sustain their fishing quotas, as well as protecting upstream forests to save their salmon—a farsighted perspective that considers their [...]

Ralf Meyer, Karen Anspacher-Meyer | 2011 | 25 min. | USA

Over the past 200 years human beings have poured more than two trillion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. As ‘The Changing Sea’ illustrates, carbon dioxide isn’t just changing the climate on land, it’s transforming the ocean in ways that haven’t been seen for millions of years. Is mass extinction the inevitable fate [...]

Erna Buffie, Merit Jensen Carr | 2010 | 52 min. | Canada

Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang have been collecting plastic debris off one beach in Northern California for over ten years. Each piece of plastic Richard and Judith pick up comes back to their house, where it gets cleaned, categorized and stored before being used for their art. The couple make sculptures, prints, jewelry and [...]

Tess Thackara, Eric Slatkin | 2011 | 8 min. | USA

Scientists predict that by the year 2048, there will be no more fish in the Pacific Ocean. Filmed in five countries that border the Pacific, ‘Overfished’ explores each nations unique challenges that threaten the hundreds of millions of people that depend on the Pacific for survival. From a diving operation in Fiji that is attracting [...]

Brian Cavallaro | 2011 | 13 min. | USA

Rock out with Hammerheads, Great Whites, Leopard Sharks, Galapagos Sharks, White Tip Reef Sharks, and the worst name of all – Soupfin Sharks. Sharks: the coolest animals on the planet happen to be some of the most important for the health of our oceans. They have 6 senses(we only have 5), they have thrived since [...]

Jeff Litton | 2011 | 4 min. | Ecuador