This long-term program will improve environmental literacy and reduce illegal practices such as illegal dumping, overfishing, and irresponsible tourism in Vietnam by encouraging stricter policies and a general increase in environmental awareness. The team conducted Interactive educational activities and adapted workshops for local school curricula to fill knowledge gaps. They also developed reef monitoring and research techniques to both generate ecotourism, and to serve as a long-term reef monitoring dataset for local government to use for better Marine Protection Area regulations.

SOA El Salvador is a youth-run organization that enables millennials to become leaders in preserving the health and sustainability of our oceans. Through this grant, they have formalized their hub's structure, grown their membership, and created a leadership team tasked with creating a set of services that can support 20-100 members. This year they offered a beach cleanup campaign and educational activities for members of the public, and created reliable patterns and processes for holding quarterly chapter meetings.

Smart Catch offers a high-speed digital network for data collection and “eyes in the net” from the trawl net to the wheelhouse to the cloud.

This project generates ocean awareness in Argentina, where only a small portion of the population lives near the coast. They developed two series of podcasts focused on Argentinian coastal wetland ecosystems as well as sharks, rays, and chimera species found in the Argentinian Sea. They also partnered with Proyecto Sub and Proyecto Arrecife to create a photographic record of cartilaginous fish species and marine coastal wetlands in the region.

This project leverages journalism and storytelling tools to put a spotlight on the challenge of illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) activities as well as marine pollution and its dangers to the ocean and society. Leaders trained 15 journalists in Ghana to use storytelling to educate, persuade, and influence ocean-related policy decisions by elevating ocean discussions to the top of the national agenda, while also deploying a digital campaign to educate residents across West Africa on the dangers of marine pollution, and improve practices of waste management.

The Sea Our Seas Docuseries includes six short documentaries that highlight the oceans, marine resources, and problems and challenges facing effective ocean management in Trinidad and Tobago. The topics addressed include: fisheries, pollution, coral reefs, ghost gear, the Blue Economy, and climate change.

Loggerhead Marinelife Center and the Haiti Ocean Project provided Haitian youth with the resources and knowledge to develop Haiti's first children's book on the importance of protecting sea turtles. This book was written and illustrated by Haitian students and distributed throughout Haiti’s fishing communities to educate and empower youth as future leaders in ocean conservation.

Sweetwater Wetlands Park is an important part of the Gainesville, FL community. However, it is located near a GRU water treatment facility where exposure risk to pollutants and contaminants is high. This project uses analytical chemistry methods and instrumentation in a lab to detect various compounds in Sweetwater in collaboration with the University of Florida Environmental Toxicology Lab. The goal is to produce a study of these compounds and other pollutants in Sweetwater and present findings to the public.

A project in partnership with the Cameroon Ministry of Environment, Nature, and Sustainable Development to raise awareness among fishermen to improve fishing practices with the aim of conserving the endangered sea turtles. Over 3,000 fishermen in 4 fishing communities took part, including 30 fishermen association leaders who agreed to serve as ambassadors for the project and to continue to spread awareness in their community.