Whalefest Monterey 2020: Wallace J Nichols

Marine mammals have well-documented economic, ecology and education value. But they are also important to emotional health. In a world of increasing anxiety, distraction and disconnect,whales and dolphins are therapy for those who need them most, and everyone else. A full accounting of ocean, water and wildlife’s cognitive, emotional, psychological, social, physical and spiritual benefits can build a bigger, wider and more diverse blue mind movement and help fix what’s broken in nature and ourselves.

Author of the New York Times bestseller “Blue Mind”, J.is changing the way the world engages with water and rethinking all the ways people spend time near, in, on or under it. He is a driving force in creating common knowledge about how water is medicine for those who need it most and sharing Blue Mind science and ethos across many sectors in contemporary culture.

J is currently Chief Evangelist for Water( CEH2O) at Buoy Labs, a Senior Fellow at the Middlebury Institute for International Studies' Center for the Blue Economy, a Research Associate at California Academy of Sciences and co-founder of Ocean Revolution, an international network of young ocean advocates, SEE the WILD, a conservation travel network, Grupo Tortuguero, an international sea turtle conservation network, and Blue Mind, a global "movement of movements" sharing the new story of water.