I've recently started a partnership with The Ocean Alliance, which is the ocean research and conservation organization founded by renowned cetacean biologist Dr. Roger Payne. The Ocean Alliance owns the research vessel Odyssey, which recently completed a 5 year, around-the-world voyage to study sperm whales and the effects of pollution on marine life. PBS has hosted a fascinating interactive web site about her voyage, and you can see it at http://www.pbs.org/odyssey/ . I'm working on some exclusive new designs for The Ocean Alliance, and I'll post them here as they become available. In the meantime, please visit their web site at http://www.oceanalliance.org/ , and support this very worthwhile organization. Thank you.

I've also recently been in touch with another ocean conservation organization called Oceanic Defense. Per their request, I sent them some of my images for their use to help fund their campaigns. They took prints of those images to the ABC Green Forum on the Oceans in Miami, Florida in mid-August 2009, and got Forum attendees Dr. Sylvia Earle and Jean-Michel Cousteau (son of Jacques Cousteau), to sign the prints, and then the prints will be auctioned off to raise funds to support their work. Another notable attendee who signed some of my prints is Rob Stewart, an underwater photographer and filmmaker who made the film "Sharkwater", a documentary on sharks and the devastating effects of the unregulated shark finning industry on shark populations and the marine ecosystem. To find out more about "Sharkwater" go to http://www.sharkwater.com/ . I'm now a strategic partner with Oceanic Defense, and I am working closely with them to create new images that will raise awareness of perils to the marine environment and it's inhabitants. To find out more about Oceanic Defense, please go to http://www.oceanicdefense.org/index.html . You can also visit their Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/OceanicDefense?ref=nf . Thank you.