Rickenbacker Marina with Rescue a Reef ICC2024
Join our Rescue a Reef coral restoration team for the world’s largest, one-day volunteer effort for our oceans and waterways, and show your commitment to reducing marine debris, along with millions of volunteers from across the globe!
We will provide garbage bags, gloves, data collection cards, and a souvenir tote bag with this year’s marine animal theme, penguins! *Community Service hours also provided.
Registration + waivers are required to participate.
- You can complete the online waivers in advance to help expedite check-in on the day of.
- However, if you are under 18 and coming without a parent or guardian, you must have a parent/guardian print and sign the waiver HERE in advance, and bring it with you to the cleanup.
This year’s Penguin T-Shirts are available for purchase here: www.bonfire.com/miami-icc-2024. Order before August 30 if you want to guarantee your shirt arrives before the cleanup.
Important details:
- Download the Ocean Conservancy’s CleanSwell app to participate in the Citizen Science activity to log, tally and measure the impact of your cleanup.
- Dress for the weather and wear appropriate footwear. This is a rocky shoreline site, and you should wear closed-toed shoes, no flipflops or sandals are permitted.
- Sunglasses, hat, and sunscreen and recommended.
- If you have your own reusable working or gardening type gloves, bring them. We will be providing gloves but cannot guarantee they will be in your size.
- Some volunteers like to use a bucket during a cleanup. Ask your local Chinese, Burger or Bakery/Donut shop if they get food service items in 5-gallon buckets that they would like to donate for use during your cleanup!
- Please bring water in a reusable container. Let’s reduce waste and refuse single-use disposable plastic water bottles.
Spearheaded globally by the Ocean Conservancy, VolunteerCleanup.org organizes Miami-Dade County’s local participation in this worldwide event with 60+ shoreline cleanups around the county and is made possible by the generous support of our presenting sponsor The Brady Hunter Foundation, with additional support from The Benjamin & Gloria Joannou, Jr. Family Conservation Fund, Blackstone Charitable Foundation, Citadel, Related Group, City of Miami Beach, Miami-Dade County RER-DERM, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Miami Ironside, Save The Manatee, Waste Management and Watersports Association.
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What Should Volunteers Bring? - Closed Toed Shoes, Water in a Resuable Bottle, Sunscreen, Insect Repellent, Garbage Bags, Hat & Sunglasses
What Will Be Provided? - Gloves, Garbage Bags, Water Refills, Buckets
Meeting Spot Details - Our team will have a check-in booth set up at 9am to the left of the Marina entrance. Please look for our table and Rescue a Reef logo!
Parking Info - Parking at Rickenbacker Marina will be free, but carpooling is strongly suggested.
Organizer
The University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School’s coral conservation program unites researchers, students, and community members in coral research and restoration.