All smiles! I won the bid with NOAA/NMFS to create an educational rockfish kids science book & poster!! Drawings of canary rockfish, yellow eye rockfish & bocaccio coming soon!
Nothing like catching a big fish contract!
Photo throwback to catching the biggest fish in Palau
For no good reason there is a prevalent fallacy spread through many areas of the third world that a boy’s education in more important than a girl’s. This was a harsh fact for a liberal, educated California girl to come to terms with in my travels. This is also the reason I began a program in the East Indies, The Mermaid Islands Corp.; to help educate girls.
The powerful First Lady Michelle Obama has gracefully started a campaign to raise awareness to the 62 million girls denied access to education. Mermaid Scientist and Mermaid Islands embody this spirit and certainly my band of sea fans do too! So, just in case you missed it, this is the First Lady’s message:
“In school, we learn that our voices matter. Tweet or Instagram a black and white portrait and share what you learned in school: “In school, I learned ____. #62MillionGirls don’t have that chance.””
In support of this inspiring program and with my optimistic hope that the more we talk about the importance of educating girls, the more girls will gain access to an education and consequently whole universes of possibilities! Check out 62milliongirls.com to see all the cute little kid celebrity photos, my favorite has got to be Mindy Kaling.
here is mine:
“In school, I learned how to be a scientist. #62MillionGirls don’t have that chance.”
Looking throughout old sketchbooks of rockfish and found these from my NOAA/NMFS days as a Research Fisheries Biologist. Fun, fun, fun…. contemplating Quillback Stock Assessment. oh the memories of analyzing all the West Coast spatially enabled trawl data for groundfishes, making conclusions about Rockfish Conservation Areas and other such mer-things.
Prints, T-shirts, phone covers, mugs, rugs, pillows and more are all available through Society 6. There are hundreds of options! Click the images to enter the shop or email me for custom orders: claudia@mermaidislands.com