The Alaska SeaLife Center's marine fundraising gala (yep, we're a nonprofit!) was on Februray 18th this year and the AmeriCorps girls were in full volunteer mode for it! We got to help out with registration, presenting project information, helping with data entry, running around for the auction, and cleaning up. It was a long night up in Anchorage, but we got to see Jeff Corwin speak and meet a lot of important people here in Alaska. One of the big projects we were working on for the auction was helping to create marine debris bottles with Dyan Ferren, a local artist in Seward. These pieces of art had marine debris and sand collected from all over the world and were titled "Beach in a Bottle." They were awesome and helped promote the conservation department's GYRE project. If you didn't already see this video about the project, defintely watch it (I promise, it's worth it):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE6tPtj8ejc
But, the night was a lot of fun and the Alaska SeaLife Center raised a lot of money from many generous people!
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Go marine debris bottle team!
Bottles set up for auction at the gala |
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| Jeff Corwin speaking |
Julie meeting Jeff Corwin
Krista, Kira, Kasi, & Sara volunteering at the gala
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