Download the 2024 Valerie Taylor Ocean Prize guidelines
Download the 2024 Valerie Taylor Ocean Prize entry form
Blue World invites you to enter the 2024 Valerie Taylor Ocean Prizes. With a prize pool totaling $30,000, we aim to support a range of initiatives across NSW that focus on ocean protection and marine conservation engagement.
Valerie Taylor, a renowned diver, photographer, and trailblazing conservationist, has dedicated her life to protecting and inspiring support for our ocean and marine life. These annual prizes have been established to honour her achievements and ignite action for ocean protection and restoration.
Australians share a strong connection with the ocean. However, the marine and coastal environments are increasingly pressured by factors including climate change, marine pollution, species loss, coastal development and increased human activity.
We welcome your ideas to conserve our ocean, instill wonder and engage our communities in ocean stewardship, throughout the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.
The aims of the Valerie Taylor Ocean Prizes
- To make a direct impact on ocean protection and restoration.
- To create wonder, inform and activate our communities to protect and care for our oceans and particularly NSW marine eco-systems.
The prizes will be assessed according to the following criteria:
- The focus and potential impact of the project, with reference to the above aims.
- The feasibility and cost effectiveness of the project.
- Innovation and creativity of the project.
- Entrants’ potential to manage and evaluate an effective project.
- Partnerships, community engagement, collaboration, interdisciplinary approaches.
Judging
The Blue World Board once again welcomes Emily Jateff to the judging panel.
Emily Jateff is the Senior Curator of Maritime Trade and Industry and inaugural Curator of Ocean Science and Technology at the Australian National Maritime Museum, where she develops programs and collaborates with science, industry and community to create content for the museum’s public-facing activities in ocean sciences, technologies, climate change and sustainability. She leads the museum’s ten-year program in support of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. Emily is also the Chair of Inspiring NSW.
Prize Announcements
The prize winners will be announced in August 2024, as part of Science Week celebrations. Many thanks to the Australian National Maritime Museum for their support of our gala announcements evening.
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Download the 2024 Valerie Taylor Ocean Prize guidelines
Download the 2024 Valerie Taylor Ocean Prize entry form
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