Oceanic traveller, humanitarian worker, and Community Scholar Carol Devine explores our relationship to oceans through three of her sci-art projects.

Human health and wellbeing is closely tied to oceans. They are the source of most of our planet's water and half our oxygen. Oceans absorb carbon dioxide; regulate climate and weather patterns; allow us to transport goods; and provide protein, livelihoods, and medicinal products for communities globally. Yet humans continue to treat the ocean like an unlimited resource and a garbage can.

From the Arctic to the Antarctic, Carol Devine illuminates the far-reaching impact of harmful oceanic practices on species health, human health, and humanitarian issues, and sheds light on innovative actions across the world that work to protect the oceans.

Speaker Bio

Carol Devine is Community Scholar of Health, Environment & Climate Change at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and a Humanitarian Affairs Advisor with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Canada. She co-leads a project on climate, environment and health for MSF and has contributed to the 2018 Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change. Carol is also a writer, conceptual artist and social scientist who has led and participated in ocean pollution and research initiatives in the UK, Arctic and Antarctic.

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Image Credit: Icebergs in the High Arctic / Carol Devine / 2008 / Brocken Inaglory / From the series Black Carbon, Not Cool