- Millennium Oceans Prize 2018 Presented by the Millennium Campus Network, this prize celebrates youth activism that advances marine and freshwater conservation and sustainable use of marine resources. It funds the execution of a concrete campaign idea to rally youth leaders across the globe to advocacy and leadership for oceans and freshwater systems.
About
Jodi Robertson discovered a passion for scuba diving in high school, when she took her first dive on a trip to Colombia. Now a certified dive master with more than 100 logged dives, Robertson is focused on protecting marine ecosystems. Disheartened to discover that scuba diving can be detrimental to marine habitats, Robertson earned a Scholars Independent Research Fellowship to study effective methods for educating divers to reduce their impact.
Based on this research, Robertson began developing Raising Fins, a program to educate others about sustainable diving practices. She will use the Millennium Oceans Prize’s $5,000 award to further the work of Raising Fins—creating a set of principles to promote environmentally conscious dives and working with dive certification agencies worldwide to implement them.