About This Site
Our website launched in October 2008. Designed by Green Team, the website's home page contains an 18-box grid of images contributed by a team of professional photographers.
The grid's movement is tied to Buoy Station 44018 located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts (Google map). The buoy, maintained by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Data Buoy Center, measures wave heights which are then transformed into a timing formula that controls the grid's movement.
Photographs were generously contributed by the following friends of Blue Ocean:
David Doubilet is one of the world's foremost underwater photographers. He has has photographed more than 60 stories for the National Geographic Magazine where he is currently a Contributing Photographer-in-Residence. David has documented our changing underwater world since his first assignment with the Geographic in 1971. In addition to the Geographic, David’s work continues to appear in countless publications worldwide and he is a contributing editor and feature columnists for the Behind the Shot in Sport Diver Magazine (US) and Seascapes and Dive Magazine (UK).
Alan Duckworth is Blue Ocean Institute's Research Scientist.
Nick Hall is a Seattle-based freelance photographer whose clients include Geographical Magazine, Edible Seattle and Edible Brooklyn Magazines, Confluence Watersports, Blue Ocean Institute, Birdlife International, Trout Unlimited, Oxford University, and the Great Himalayan National Park Service. Nick is former Seafood Program Manager of Blue Ocean Institute.
James and Jennifer Healey are New Jersey residents who have traveled widely throughout the Caribbean.
Wolcott Henry is a professional photographer who has captured reef images and human impacts on coral reefs in much of his work. Trained in sports photography, Wolcott is a contract photographer with the National Geographic Society and has collaborated with Dr. Sylvia Earle on three marine photography books. His images have appeared in Time, Mother Jones, and Ocean's Illustrated, among others.
Yves Lancet
Lindblad Expeditions is a New York-based expedition travel company that stresses environmental stewardship in its voyages to remote and pristine regions of the world, including the Galapagos Islands, Alaska, Baja California, the Arctic and Antarctica.
National Marine Fisheries Service is a federal agency that works to maintain living marine resources through conservation, fisheries management, and the promotion of healthy marine ecosystems.
National Marine Sanctuaries - The mission of NOAA's National Marine Sanctuaries is to serve as trustee for the nation's system of marine protected areas. NMS focuses on conservation and biodiversity as well as maintaining the ecological integrity and cultural legacy of marine protected areas.
Carlos Navarro is a Lindblad undersea specialist and naturalist whose images have appeared in National Geographic magazine. Navarro is a biochemical engineer specializing in marine biology who has lived on the shores of the Sea of Cortez for most of the past 18 years.
Patricia Paladines is the Program Manager for Blue Ocean Institute's Education Program.
Chris Paparo is a Marine Biologist at Atlantis Marine World in Riverhead.
Photoshot is a web-based collection of photography that includes photos of the natural and marine world, as well as many other genres of photography.
Jack and Rikki Swenson/Expedition Gallery are photo expedition leaders for Lindblad Expeditions. Their images have appeared worldwilde in advertising, books, magazines and calendars produced by publishers such as National Geographic, Smithsonian, Audubon, BBC Wildlife, Time-Life, and many others.
John Todaro is a Long Island-based photographer whose images have appeared in The New Yorker, Men's Journal, Town and Country, Decor, Metropolitan Home, Elle Canada and other magazines.
Dr. Cynthia Tuthill is Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer at SciClone Pharmaceuticals.
David Witting
