The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum is pleased to present through its Maritime Distinguished Speaker Series Fish Reef Project’s update on Sea Cave® with Chris Goldblatt , Founder and CEO of the Fish Reef Project. Join SBMM on Thursday, February 15, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. on an update to Fish Reef Project’s 2020 lecture at SBMM where they announced the creation of their novel blue technology, Sea Cave®. From then until now Fish Reef Project has perfected the Sea Cave® technology and has deployed it in seven locations, mainly for kelp restoration. The 55 acre reef kelp restoration in Baja California is of relative importance as the ecosystem is a near exact match to the Channel islands and local coastal ecosystem.
About the Speaker
Chris Goldblatt is founder and CEO of Fish Reef Project and is the inventor of Sea Cave®. His mission is to ensure long-term ocean health by turning empty seafloor into thriving marine ecosystems home to millions of marine animals. He has more than 40 years of fishing and diving experience in addition to being an early pioneer of the sustainable seafood movement. Along with Inventing FertileUrchin, a biotech fertilizer made from purple and red urchins waste shells, Goldblatt has contributed to several marine related publications and is the author of the Luke Dodge Ocean Adventure series. Goldblatt received his bachelor of science in fisheries and business from Cal Poly Humboldt, and has been a guest lecturer at UC Santa Barbara and an International Seabed Authority observer, contributor, and speaker since 2014. In 2018, he was the Invited Guest Speaker at the Civil Society Forum of the Blue Economy Conference in Nairobi, Kenya.
The Maritime Distinguished Speaker Series is sponsored by Marie L. Morrisroe.