Events
Upcoming Events
Past Events
NOAA Central Library: Preview of the Global Deep-Sea Capacity Results
June 22, 2022
Dr. Katy Croff Bell and Dr. Maud Quinzin, Capacity Assessment Project Manager presented the preliminary results of the 2022 Global Deep-Sea Capacity Assessment at the NOAA Central Library Series.
Slack for Good/Ocean Discovery League Partnership Launch
July 22, 2021
To launch the partnership with Ocean Discovery League, Slack hosted an employee Town Hall with Dr. Katy Croff Bell and other leading experts from National Geographic Society and Polynesian Voyaging Society to highlight the opportunities created by diversifying the voices driving climate action. Learn More
Dr. Katy Croff Bell Testifies Before Congress
June 5, 2019
On Wednesday, June 5, 2019, Dr. Katy Croff Bell testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, & Technology Subcommittee on Environment on the topic of Ocean Exploration: Diving to New Depths and Discoveries. Watch her full testimony below, and read or download her full official remarks here.
The Atlantic International Research Centre Summer Series
August 27, 2020
Dr. Katy Croff Bell, presented on Deep Sea Exploration: Past + Present + Future at the AIR Center. Deep sea exploration today is inefficient, elite, and expensive. As a result, we don’t fully understand how to wisely use and protect the ocean, so that we may thrive today and into the future.
2019 National Geographic Explorers Symposium
February 11, 2019
On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, linguistic anthropologist Sandhya Narayanan, paleoanthropologist and stand-up comic Ella Al-Shamahi, oceanographer Katy Croff Bell, and carnivore ecologist Rae Wynn-Grant—amazing explorers who are pushing the boundaries of scientific knowledge and inspiring the next generation—presented on "Expanding the Field of Exploration."
Previous Events
From 2017 to 2021, the Open Ocean Initiative at the MIT Media Lab hosted several gatherings and pursued multiple project initiatives. In 2021, Open Ocean spun off to become Ocean Discovery League to continue this work.
In February 2018, we convened 200 explorers, innovators, artists, scientists, and storytellers in collaboration with NGS at an event called Here be Dragons. Our goal was to identify the uncharted territories that still exist in ocean exploration and storytelling.
All Hands on Deck, held at the MIT Media Lab, was the 2018 National Ocean Exploration Forum. Its goal was to imagine creative new ways to make the ocean so pervasive in modern culture that everyone has a positive association with the sea.
The Open Ocean Seminar Series was a curated speaker series focusing on new technologies and capacity building approaches for deep sea exploration. Seminars were held biweekly in the spring of 2019 and spring, summer, and fall of 2020.