V2: Community

stories about culture, heritage, nature, and the sea.

Welcome to Community

Community blends cultural, scientific, and social ideas exploring how communities shape and are shaped by our blue spaces. Ten stories celebrating our shared responsibility for oceans, rivers, and lakes that unravel the impact of community on our connection with the deep blue.

Welcome Article

The Tse-whit-zen disaster: one incomplete dock, millions of dollars, and hundreds of disrupted burial sites

Written by Kara Denner, MSc Archaeology student at the University of Edinburgh The Pacific Northwest, encompassing the U.S. states of...

Mikoko (mangroves): The community efforts to restore a mangrove ecosystem in Mida Creek, Kenya

Written by Imara Bella Thorpe, Mida Creek Conservation Community Journey through the mangroves... You are exploring a secret passage,...

The role of NGOs in coastal communities: a Latin American viewpoint

MarViva's Katherine Arroyo-Arce explores the importance of NGOs learning from coastal communitites, such as the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica.

Expanding biodiversity knowledge through community and collaboration

Written by Emma Bolton and Nadine Greenhalgh, Basecamp Research Oceans and their rich biodiversity have long been integral to humanity’s...

Inside the SCUBA diving community of Egypt’s Red Sea

Written by Alicia Johnson, Centre of Maritime Archaeology and Underwater Cultural Heritage, Alexandria, Egypt Experience Egypt Imagine...

Harmonising nature and community through art in Cornwall’s secret underwater gardens

Written by Tara Williams, a marine biologist and PhD postgraduate researcher at the University of Exeter. Photography by Shannon Moran....

Other volumes...

Volume 01: Osmosis

Volume 03: Gen Sea

Coastlines are evolving as sea level rises; but what’s our strategy?

Silenced seavoices: the stolen, looted, and hidden histories of our oceans

A tale of ocean literacy: increasing humanity's connection with the ocean

Ocean connections; transcending time, cultures and generations