Gulf to Gulf

Overview

The Gulf To Gulf Project seeks ways to address climate change by integrating Art and Science. Through combined global efforts, we must re-green the earth 36% by 2030 to mitigate global warming for human survival. Fish will be our progress indicators in this global, Gulf To Gulf initiative. The project will involve its participants in artistic, educational and collaborative actions and initiatives to attain these goals.

The project has emerged from a collaboration between James White, INSTAAR, Eugene Turner, LSU, artist Aviva Rahmani and technologist James Bradley, WebServes. The Gulf To Gulf website is dedicated to the relationship between consciousness-building about climate change, environmental restoration work, and motivating people to act. It will include the work of students, academics, scientists, and allied professionals. As a portal, the website will aggregate the allied and complementary activities of its core collaborators and those individuals and organizations that support their work or common objectives.

GulftoGulf.org is being developed through a technology partnership with nonprofit, WebServes (WS), a 501(c)3 technology services provider. As such, WebServes will host, develop and launch the GulftoGulf.org website as a public web portal to deliver relevant information, media content and announcements of activity and events related to Gulf To Gulf project. WS will host the website and provide the design and programming for its initial launch in 2013. Content will be derived from the activities of the project collaborators.

 

Why Restoration?

Ecological restoration is an intentional activity that initiates or accelerates the recovery of an ecosystem with respect to its health, integrity and sustainability. And, Ecological restoration is the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed.

Discourse

There is regular discourse from the Gulf to Gulf team uploaded to Vimeo discussing many related topics. Click the button below to view this rich content on Vimeo:

The Team

Aviva Rahmani Ecological Artist Affiliate at INSTAAR, UCB, and researcher with University of Plymouth, UK, Rahmani’s Ghost Nets (www.ghostnets.com), and Blue Rocks (2002) restored over 26 acres of wetlands in the Gulf of Maine. Her transdisciplinar

Aviva Rahmani Ecological Artist Affiliate at INSTAAR, UCB, and researcher with University of Plymouth, UK, Rahmani’s Ghost Nets (www.ghostnets.com), and Blue Rocks (2002) restored over 26 acres of wetlands in the Gulf of Maine. Her transdisciplinary artworks, are shown and published internationally.

R. Eugene Turner Coastal & Environment Scientist R. Eugene Turner is a Chaired Professor, Distinguished Research Master and Distinguished Faculty at Louisiana State University. He is sometimes an oceanographer with feet in the watershed, and at oth

R. Eugene Turner Coastal & Environment Scientist R. Eugene Turner is a Chaired Professor, Distinguished Research Master and Distinguished Faculty at Louisiana State University. He is sometimes an oceanographer with feet in the watershed, and at other times a wetland ecologist.

James White Paleo-Climatologist Jim White is a paleoecologist and Professor at the University of Colorado (CU). He is the Director of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, and is the founding Director of Environmental Studies Program at CU.

James White Paleo-Climatologist Jim White is a paleoecologist and Professor at the University of Colorado (CU). He is the Director of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, and is the founding Director of Environmental Studies Program at CU. His research interests revolve around human impacts on the environment.

James Bradley Technologist James Bradley is a consultant, educator, user experience designer and software developer. He founded and directs the technology services nonprofit, WebServes. He teaches UX design, digital media and web-related courses at

James Bradley Technologist James Bradley is a consultant, educator, user experience designer and software developer. He founded and directs the technology services nonprofit, WebServes. He teaches UX design, digital media and web-related courses at NYU SCPS and Hunter College (CUNY).

Interactive Map

Gulf to Gulf intends this mapping to demonstrate how to connect the dots of climate change activism between people, locations, environmental work and its webcasts: interactive map