Niza is leading a research project to understand the adaptive strategies fishing cooperatives in Mexico are utilizing to maintain fish populations as climate changes. Her goal is to provide these strategies in an open-source database to inform US fisheries along coastal California and beyond.

"Coastal Mama" aims to reduce the use of plastic sachets in Pasaran, a small island in Indonesia, while helping women who have lost their jobs during the pandemic. First, they will do research to understand which single-use products/items are most used by households and local shops. Then, they choose 30 mothers on the island to participate in workshops on upcycling and initiating refill stations with local shops. People will pay for these products but they are cheaper than standard, less sustainable ones. Shop-owners (who are women) will get some portion of the profit.

The Dive into Marine Science project educated 100 youths ranging from primary to university students on ocean literacy and advocacy. Through environmental data collection and interpretation along the Bijilo Beach, this project focused on building the knowledge and understanding of aquatic ecosystems in The Gambia. Every year Gambia Ocean Heroes commemorates International Coastal Clean-Up Day (ICCD) with a massive clean-up along the 80 km coastline in collaboration with 7 community-based organizations. Every year they have over 1000 volunteers.

As many threatened shark species inhabit Peruvian waters with one of the largest fisheries in the region that is poorly managed, SOA Hub Perú and Coalición Tiburón Perú developed a shark conservation campaign. SOA Peru will conduct research, then develop audiovisual materials to highlight the importance of shark conservation and share them through social media platforms, murals and printed materials.

Founded in 2014, FlyWire provides technology to track what happens on an individual fishing vessel, such as where the vessel sails, where it fishes, what is caught, and how much, seamlessly capturing critical fisheries data at sea. Integrated hardware is installed on-vessel to monitor catch, handling, efficiency, and vessel performance using video, GPS, and other sensors throughout the fishing trip. When the vessel returns, data are uploaded to the cloud, then AI processes big data sets for human review to finally generate reports for key stakeholders.

SOA Pacific Islands is proposing to organize their second Regional Youth Conference which will target youth ocean leaders/individuals from all over the Pacific to participate in the Conference. They will host the conference physically in Fiji and have youth participants from other Pacific Island Countries join in virtually for a 2-day session on Ocean Health & Sustainability. They will then host a mangrove planting and beach clean-up activities in at least 6-10 PICs as follow-up to the conference in the same week. The conference will be lined up together with the Regional Conference of Youth and SOA Pacific Hub will lead the sessions on Ocean with the overall team, a outcome document will be drafted and later presented to delegates from COP26.

A group of researchers, led by Trent Tresch, conduct multiple deep-sea dives to study the six gill sharks and the presence of microplastics at depths of 1000-2,500 feet off of Roatan, Honduras. The footage and findings from their research is shared through a display at a local museum, and SOA is partnering with them to share their project to raise awareness of the ways human impacts are being felt even at the depths of the ocean.

This is a continuation of an SOA University of Florida Hub project that SOA funded in 2020. They are working with an ecotoxicology lab on campus to collect water samples in a local wetland area - Sweetwater Wetlands - and test them for various contaminants. The results are communicated through community outreach events on and off campus.

This will be a continuation of the same data journalism training that Gideon and SOA Ghana conducted last year, which successfully trained 15 journalists that published articles spotlighting illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing activities as well as marine pollution and its dangers to the ocean and society. This year he will do the same; conducting a training built around expert mentorship from 4 expert journalists. The ultimate objective is to influence ocean-related policy decisions by elevating ocean discussions to the top of the national agenda. The project will also deploy a digital campaign involving 10 short videos and 20 infographics to promote the articles and to educate residents across West Africa on the dangers of marine pollution, and improve practices of waste management. The digital campaign is expected to reach 100,000 people online.