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Volume 25 / No.1 / February 09 VOLUME 24 / NO.1 / JANUARY 08 VOLUME 25 / NO.1 / FEBRUARY 09 The Surfrider Foundation is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated TRACKING THE EBB AND FLOW OF to the protection and enjoyment of the world’s oceans, waves and beaches, for COASTAL ENVIRONMENTALISM all people, through conservation, activism, research and education. Publication of The Surfrider Foundation A Non-Profit Environmental Organization P.O. Box 6010 San Clemente, CA 92674-6010 Phone: (949) 492-8170 / (800) 743-SURF (7873) Web: www.surfrider.org / E-mail: [email protected] 109 victories since 1/06. The Surfrider Foundation is striving to win 150 environmental campaigns by 2010. For a list of these victories please go to: www.surfrider.org/whoweare6.asp Chief Executive Officer Washington Field Coordinator Jim Moriarty Shannon Serrano Chief Operating Officer California Policy Coordinator Michelle C. Kremer, Esq. Joe Geever Director of Chapters Washington Policy Coordinator Edward J. Mazzarella Jody Kennedy Environmental Director Ocean Ecosystem Manager Chad Nelsen Pete Stauffer The array of up to 18 spines on the Could crop residue help us ease the Director of Marketing & Communications Oregon Policy Coordinator top of the lionfish can deliver a painful, suffocation of our oceans or just cause Matt McClain Gus Gates sometimes nauseating—though not more damage? Director of Development Save Trestles Coordinator deadly—sting. Steve Blank Stefanie Sekich Assistant Environmental Director Ventura Watershed Coordinator Mark Rauscher Paul Jenkin Direct Mail Manager Controller Jenna Holland Toni Craw Global Grants Manager Accounting Assistant Lori A. Booth Ryan Johnson Membership Manager Cash Receipts/Mail Order Olaf Lohr Jill Tierney Director of Global Relations Content Manager Lia Colabello Tracey Armstrong Coastal Management Coordinator Marketing Manager Rick Wilson Laura Mazzarella Water Quality Coordinator Communications Manager Mara Dias Alexis Henry Central Coast Regional Manager Community & Events Manager Sarah Corbin Vickie McMurchie Florida Regional Manager Membership Coordinator Ericka D’Avanzo Sarah Vanderheiden One man’s quest cross the Atlantic in a human-propelled submarine could end Northeast Regional Manager Membership Assistants up a boon for marine science too. John Weber Emily Hughes & David Rey Legal Manager Office Administrator NEW KING OF THE REEF JUNGLE Angela Howe, Esq. Kirstin Harvey (LOW) So Cal Field Coordinator Chief Financial Officer Nancy Hastings Christopher Keys, CPA Lionfish (considered an invasive species in the US) are wreaking havoc Puerto Rico Field Coordinator Director of Technology in South Atlantic waters. They’re native to the Indian and South Pacific Leon Richter Alan Hopper oceans, where fish such as sharks, eels and large groupers keep them in Oregon Field Coordinator Technology Consultant check. However, in Atlantic waters the locals haven’t evolved to be wary Charlie Plybon Mark Babski of them so lionfish quickly dominate the reefs they colonize. A 2008 study indicated a single lionfish on a small patch of reef in the Bahamas could 2009 BOARD OF DIRECTORS MAKING WAVES STAFF wipe out nearly 80 percent of native fishes in just five weeks. Lionfish are Chair Wing Lam Managing Editor – Tracey Armstrong believed to have made their way into these parts via the aquarium trade. C.J. Olivares Greg Perlot Layout/Design – Casey Holland Vice-Chair Michael Marckx Contributors: Ed Mazzarella, Chad Nelsen, BALES OF CROP RESIDUE TO REDUCE CO2 POLLUTION? Vipe Desai Sergio Mello Tracey Armstrong and Lia Colabello (LOW) Secretary Tony Radaich Take 30 percent of global crop residues—the stalks and such left after Michelle Duval Steve Shipsey harvesting—turn that into bales and then sink them into the ocean and Board Brooke Simler Smith FOUNDING ADVISORY BOARD what do you have? A new way to reduce the build up of global carbon Sean Ahlum Shaun Tomson Yvon Chouinard Tom Curren dioxide in the atmosphere by up to 15 percent a year, say some experts. Meg Caldwell David Wilmot Steve Pezman Jericho Poppler Bartlow However, at what price to our ocean environment? Organisms living in the Laura Cantral Bruce Johnston D. Dwight Worden ocean sediments where the bales fall will no doubt be affected to start. A separate but related British experiment was recently halted due to 2009 ADVISORY BOARD environmental concerns. Scientists were attempting to fertilize the ocean Advisory Board Chairman Advisory Board Manager with iron sulphate to stimulate the growth of plankton (which in turn Shaun Tomson Jim Kempton would potentially take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere). Somehow dumping more things into our ocean just doesn’t seem like the best solution to help save our environment, but scientists are exploring any and every option at this point. Stay tuned. HUMAN-PROPELLED SUBMARINE TO CROSS ATLANTIC (HIGH) An inventor from Georgia, USA and a marine biologist from West Chester University in Pennsylvania have teamed up to attempt something pretty incredible. They will try to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a human-propelled submarine. Inventor Ted Ciamillo plans to pedal nearly 2,000 nautical miles from the Cape Verde islands to Barbados at a depth of around six and a half feet. He will surface at night to sleep under a tent erected on top of the sub. The body of the 16-foot-long vessel has a stainless steel frame, a polycarbonate shell and a dolphin-fin propulsion system made from aluminum and titanium. The Lumocet is undergoing sea trials and the voyage is set to begin in November. Cover photo by Thor Jonsson 2 | www.surfrider.org I was reminded of this comparison the other day when I was helping some out-of-town friends with options for their family vacation in Southern California. The family of four could buy a 3-Day Disneyland pass for $640, or they could spend a day at the beach “for free.” They chose the beach, and I spent a few hours with them and noticed how the entire family became closer, having an absolute ball in the water and leaving with sand in their toes and smiles across their faces. Spending a day at the beach was “free.” The truth is, nothing is free. Everything has a cost. Sometimes that cost equates to currency, sometimes it equates to our time and resources. All of us, including you, that support Surfrider Foundation, believe that our The wild economic ride we’re all on is causing us to adopt a new oceans, waves and beaches should be set of lenses to look at the world; this is perhaps the single largest accessible for all people to enjoy, and positive result to come from the global economic crisis. should also be protected. All of us invest a part of ourselves in that idea. You may be a Just a few years ago the dollar (or your local currency) didn’t carry member and invest your money in this idea. the weight it does now. For example, you were probably more willing You may also invest your time, energy and to buy a car or a $4 cup of coffee than you might be today. Consumer expertise in your local Chapter. Whatever spending seemed to be on an endless upward trajectory. Spending your investment, you make it because in your seemed to live outside the laws of gravity and (looking back with mind, our coasts hold value. 20/20 hindsight) common sense. Over the last six months, the prices of housing, gas and other goods have fluctuated to the point of We appreciate those contributions as it confusing us. This brings me to the subject of value. enables us to keep the lights on and make a difference all over the world. More than Value [val-yoo] –noun that, we appreciate the fact that you have 1. Relative worth, merit, or importance: the value of a associated real value in our mission. One of college education; the value of a queen in chess. the crispest examples of the value we offer 2. Monetary or material worth, as in commerce or trade: can be found in the 109 victories we’ve won This piece of land has greatly increased in value. over the last three years. The collective value 3. The worth of something in terms of the amount of other we associate with Surfrider is literally the things for which it can be exchanged or in terms of some power of this entire effort. medium of exchange. Origin: 1275–1325; ME < OF, n. use of fem. ptp. (cf. valuta ) So as we continue to weave our way through of valoir < L valere to be worth these murky and squishy economic times, Source: Dictionary.com let’s keep it in the front of our minds that our coasts have a value that is priceless. They Time is the most valuable thing in my opinion as it outweighs money, should not be marginalized or purchased, status, worth and everything else. Nothing is as scarce as a minute of but should be appreciated for their pure, our lives. natural beauty. An extension of this idea is what we do with our time and the value Let’s also remember that the return we gain from doing it. Here is where Surfrider Foundation comes in. (enjoyment) on investment (protection) equation is among the strongest in our lives. What is the value of going skiing or going to the movies? How do Now close this newsletter and get some sand those values compare with the value of walking along your favorite in your toes. Go experience “free” in more beach or surfing your home break? The challenge to these questions ways than one. is that the latter examples, many times, are assigned a value of zero since they are offered for “free.” —Jim Moriarty, Chief Executive Officer Making Waves | 3 CRAIG COPOLLA On December 18th the holidays came early for beach lovers around State Park and Trestles supporters turned out in droves to make their the world, especially those that hold a special place in their hearts for voice heard and oppose the 241 toll road extension.
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