Team BEACH Webinar Series
The Team BEACH webinar series aims to bring sea turtle conservationists together to learn from behavior change specialists and to discuss their own successes and challenges in developing and implementing behavior change methods in their own projects. Each webinar focuses on a different topic relating to behavior change and features a keynote presentation given by a specialist in the field, case studies from the community, and an open discussion. To receive announcements about upcoming webinars and events, subscribe to the Team BEACH listserv.
Recordings to all webinars can be found below.
Webinar # 5 (June 2022): Speaking truth to plastics: A tipping point from awareness to action
Full time activist and founder of The Last Plastic Straw movement, Jackie Nuñez discusses solutions to plastic pollution and her efforts in teaching people of all ages how to be an agent for change in their communities.
Webinar #4 (April 2022): Discovering Diverse Pathways to Change Behaviors for Conservation
Dr. Lily Maynard, director of global conservation at the Cincinnati Zoo led us through behavior change tools for motivating conservation in this engaging, interactive webinar.
Webinar #3 (March 2022): Behavior Change in Fisheries
Dr. Nicolas Pilcher from the Marine Research Foundation gave a keynote presentation about his work convincing fishers in Malaysia and beyond to implement Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs) and Michel (Tony) Nalovic from CRPM Guyane spoke about how his long-time efforts with TEDs in French Guyana.
Webinar #2 (August 2021): Developing and Assessing Short Duration Conservation Outreach Programs.
This session included a keynote presentation by Dr. Joe E. Heimlich from Center of Science and Industry (COSI) and case studies by Kendra Cope from Coastal Connections, Inc, and Bruno Giffoni from Fundação Projeto Tamar.
Webinar #1 (May 2021): Introduction to Team beach
The Team BEACH coordination team introduced the goals and vision for the Team BEACH network and asked participants for input on future directions and needs for the initiative. We also heard case study presentations from network members Rachel Smith from Disney Conservation, Renee Bumpus from Houston Zoo, and Irene Kelly from NOAA fisheries.