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Rosalie Bay on the Rumcast and another month of hijinks on Dugongs and Seadragons

Posted on December 10, 2024 By Andrew Thaler
Rosalie Bay on the Rumcast and another month of hijinks on Dugongs and Seadragons
Blogging

Listen to Kernean George, Marcella Harris, and Brett Steigerwaldt on The Rumcast talking about the Rosalie Bay Distillery: Dominica’s First-of-Its-Kind Rum Distillery. Meanwhile, the Cephalosquad seems have largely forgotten that multiple party members are missing and have wandered of to a fancy castle to start an entirely different mission.

This Rum Protects the Ocean: the world’s first conservation distillery is open for business.

Posted on November 15, 2024November 15, 2024 By Andrew Thaler
This Rum Protects the Ocean: the world’s first conservation distillery is open for business.
Conservation, Featured

Five years ago, a small team of ocean scientists, conservationists, sea turtle patrollers, and distillers came up with a radical idea to create a sustainable, long-term funding model for Dominica’s Sea Turtle Conservation Organization and Ocean’s Forward. From dozens of meetings, market analyses, and viability assessments, the Rosalie Bay Distillery was born. The distillery would … Read More “This Rum Protects the Ocean: the world’s first conservation distillery is open for business.” »

Conservation, Technology, and the Future of the Seafloor: My 2023 science year in review.

Posted on January 4, 2024January 4, 2024 By Andrew Thaler
Conservation, Technology, and the Future of the Seafloor: My 2023 science year in review.
Academic life, Science

2023 felt like a year where I was just treading water. I barreled through it so fast that I barely registered everything that we accomplishes (and just how much is left to finish). This was a kludge year for me, with lots of small projects instead of one, big, overarching project. Onwards! Deep-sea Mining remains … Read More “Conservation, Technology, and the Future of the Seafloor: My 2023 science year in review.” »

Saving sea turtles in Dominica with a conservation-first Rum Distillery

Posted on February 18, 2021November 15, 2024 By Andrew Thaler 1 Comment on Saving sea turtles in Dominica with a conservation-first Rum Distillery
Saving sea turtles in Dominica with a conservation-first Rum Distillery
Conservation

In the hours before dawn on one mid-October morning, I climbed into the jumpseat of a C-131 cargo plane, and began a long, complicated journey to the island of Dominica. It was 2017 and Hurricane Maria had cut a swath of destruction across much of the Caribbean, but it was Dominica that first bore the full force of the storm as it roared into the Americas.

When I began working with Jake Levenson (Oceans Forward) early the year before, we were developing a marine conservation and robotics program to bring to students on the Island, but the storm changed everything. Though my first trip to Dominica was far different from what we had planned, it was the beginning of a long partnership with Levenson, the Dominica Sea Turtle Conservation Organization, and friends and colleagues from Dominica and around the world committed to marine conservation and answering the big question: can a small island create a model for financially sustainable marine conservation that is resilient to both the changing climate and the ever-shifting winds of ecotourism?

From that question, and over many conversations with stakeholders, experts, funders, and community leaders, the Rosalie Conservation Center–a center of learning and research as well as a fish hatchery and a rum distillery–was born.

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