Promoting Ocean Preservation And Stewardship With Amber Sparks And Emily Hazelwood
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Today, we sit down with marine scientists Amber Sparks and Emily Hazelwood, Co-Founders of Blue Latitudes. Blue Latitudes is a women-owned small business and marine environmental consulting firm that focuses on enhancing the traditional concept of ocean stewardship.
Amber is a marine environmental scientist and oil and gas consultant with a background in technology and public outreach. She combines her skills with Emily, a marine conservation biologist and offshore energy consultant who has extensive experience in project management.
Since 2015, Blue Latitudes has been working to develop sustainable, innovative, and economic solutions for environmental challenges that encompass the offshore energy industry. By uniting science, policy, and communications, Amber and Emily are aiming to provide real results for the offshore industry as a whole…
Tune in now to learn about:
- How Emily and Amber got started in their pursuits toward marine conservation.
- How to turn oil rigs into ecologically sustainable reefs.
- What makes oil platforms work so well for artificial reefs.
- How oil rig operators react to this type of work.
Visit www.rig2reefexploration.org now to learn more about Amber and Emily's work with Blue Latitudes!
Episode also available on Apple Podcast: http://apple.co/30PvU9C
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| 0:30.0 | This is the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | The Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:36.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast, |
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| 0:43.0 | I have two guests today, versus Emily Callahan. |
| 0:45.0 | She's a marine conservation biologist, and offshore energy consultant, |
| 0:49.0 | and an entrepreneur at blue latitudes. |
| 0:52.0 | And then I have Amber Sparks, which is also a marine conservation biologist, |
| 0:55.0 | an environmental consultant, and an entrepreneur. |
| 0:57.0 | She's a co-founder of Blue Latitudes LLC. |
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