Award Categories
Before making your nomination, please carefully review the award categories below.
Eleanor Fletcher was an innovative pioneer in marine conservation who was primarily self-taught. She educated thousands of children about sea turtles and initiated cultural change to preserve and protect the species. Like Eleanor Fletcher, the recipient of this award exemplifies a lifelong, extraordinary commitment to marine conservation education through their work or volunteer activities.
- Provide a description of the nominee's activities as they relate to marine conservation.
- Describe how the nominee's efforts directly or indirectly benefit marine life and/or marine conservation.
- What are the specific results of the nominee's efforts?
- List any of the nominee's outstanding contributions to marine conservation.
The recipient for this award exemplifies significant contributions to ocean conservation through volunteering and work-related efforts. Nominations should address the following:
- Provide a description of the nominee's activities as they relate to marine conservation.
- Describe how the nominee's efforts directly or indirectly benefit marine life and/or marine conservation.
- What are the specific results of the nominee's efforts?
- List any of the nominee's outstanding contributions to marine conservation.
This award recognizes a student up to the 12th grade who has contributed to marine conservation through volunteer activities. Nominations should address the following:
- Provide a description of the nominee's activities as they relate to marine conservation.
- Describe how the nominee's efforts directly or indirectly benefit marine life and/or marine conservation.
- What are the specific results of the nominee's efforts?
- List any of the nominee's outstanding contributions to marine conservation.
This award recognizes a business or nonprofit that has made outstanding contributions to promoting conservation or restoration of marine life or ecosystems through its work, outreach, practices, products, or technology. Nominations should address the following:
- Describe the nominee's marine conservation activities and accomplishments which have produced a positive impact and/or significant change.
- How does the nominee's corporate culture benefit marine life and marine conservation?
- Does the nominee support and encourage employees to actively participate in volunteer activities related to marine conservation?
- Describe the nominee's products or services that support marine life and marine conservation.
Make A Nomination
Use the form below to make nominations For The Fifteenth Annual Go Blue Awards on January 26, 2024.
Nominations closed on Tuesday, October 10, 2023. Thank you for your submissions.
Judges
Go Blue Awards Nominations are open to the public and are judged by an independent panel of judges. The esteemed panel of judges that will select this year’s finalists and winners includes:
Lad Akins
Curator of Marine Conservation, Frost Science
Dr. Sylvia Earle
Marine biologist and Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society
Greg Marshall
Filmmaker & Inventor of Crittercam, National Geographic
Sally Murray
Daughter of Loggerhead Marinelife Center Founder Eleanor Fletcher
Susan Murray
Granddaughter of Eleanor Fletcher & Oceana Pacific Deputy Vice President
Dr. Wallace “J” Nichols
Marine biologist, author, water-lover, turtle nerd, explorer, movement builder
Joel Sartore
Photo Ark Founder, National Geographic Photographer & Contributor
Brian Skerry
Award-winning National Geographic photographer
About The Go Blue Awards
The Go Blue Awards program was created to recognize individuals and businesses that directly or indirectly support LMC’s mission to promote conservation of ocean ecosystems with a special focus on threatened and endangered sea turtles. Previous Go Blue Award recipients include Dr. Guy Harvey, Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation; Dr. Sylvia Earle, Mission Blue; Hardy Jones - Executive Director, Bluevoice.org; Nathaniel Reed, Everglades Foundation; Dr. Edith Widder, Ocean Research & Conservation Association; Florida Power & Light Company; Gary Adkison, U.S. Shark Foundation; International Game Fish Association; and Coral Restoration Foundation.
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