Donor dollars drive the science and science effects change in management practices, conservation strategies, and actions that balance the needs of citizens and marine life. Investment in the SeaDoc Society is investment in the collective life of the Pacific Northwest's inland waters marine ecosystem, and in the vision that, together, we will secure a healthy and sustainable ecosystem. Donor-investors can act on their own deepest values and achieve profound and lasting impact through the SeaDoc Society.

Invest in Ecosystem Health!

• To make an electronic donation through the website – up to $1,000.00 USD -- please use our online gift form.
• To send a donation via the mail, please download a pledge card and designate your gift to the “UC Regents to benefit the SeaDoc Society”  The mailing address for donations is:
  • The SeaDoc Society
    Wildlife Health Center
    University of California
    One Shields Avenue
    Davis, CA 95616
• To donate to the SeaDoc Society via transfer of securities or property please contact Kelly Nimtz, kjnimtz@ucdavis.edu, (530) 752-7024.
   

New in 2008: Join the Wildlifers!

The SeaDoc Society is a 501c 3 organization; Tax ID Number: 94-6036494

For more information contact:

Kelly Nimtz
Assistant Dean for Development
UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
(530) 752-7024
kjnimtz@ucdavis.edu

In 2007, an innovative public/private financial partnership created an endowment to ensure that the SeaDoc Society will have a program and lead scientist based in the Puget Sound Georgia Basin in perpetuity. Private donors Ron and Kathleen McDowell and the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine made this Pacific Northwest Fund possible. The goal is to build the endowment to $20 million by 2015 to support scientific research and translation of that research to improve the health of the Puget Sound Georgia Basin marine ecosystem and the wildlife it supports. If you would like to learn more about this endowment or make a contribution, please contact Kelly Nimtz at (530)752-7024.

The health of the Pacific Northwest's inland marine waters is deteriorating rapidly. We will never restore it to Lewis and Clark's experience- "salmon so thick you could cross the rivers on their backs." But the longer we wait to take directed, effective measures to restore the inland waters to a healthy, vigorous ecosystem, the more likely the decline will become permanent damage impossible to reverse. The quality of life we've come to expect in the Pacific Northwest will also decline; our lives are intimately linked to the products and experiences provided by this unique marine ecosystem.

Conditions call for immediate and effective action based on solid, reliable information to shape decisions on relevant issues affecting millions of people living in the Pacific Northwest. This is not a time for short-term, stop-gap interventions, best-guesses or special-interest agendas.

The marine ecosystem is a fascinating world! Here are some resources and activities that can help all of us make a positive difference in the health of our marine wildlife.

Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth’s Last Dinosaur, by Carl Safina. MacArthur fellow and John Burroghs Award-winner Safina (Song for the Blue Ocean) presents a compelling and beautiful description of the plight of ocean-dwelling turtles. Safina lectured in November on Orcas Island as part of the Marine Science Lecture Series co-sponsored by the SeaDoc Society and YMCA Camp Orkila. His eloquent and realistic voice lets the rest of us see the challenges and the beauty of our marine ecosystems.

50 ways to save the ocean, by David Helvard. Helvard, founder of Blue Frontier, offers simple, fun and innovative ways to enjoy, conserve, clean and protect our ocean and to learn and share more about them. Way #1: “Go to the Beach – Enjoy the sand and the water and leave as clean or cleaner than you found it.”

Chasing Clayoquot: A Wilderness Almanac, by David Pitt-Brooke. (SeaDoc Society Member recommendation – Thanks, Ginger!) Naturalist Pitt-Brooke takes his readers on 12 excursions to Clayoquot Sound in Vancouver Island, a place that receives precipitation 202 days of the year, averaging 3.3 meters annually. By kayak, helicopter, and on foot, he explores the rocky shoreline and its inhabitants. Proceeding month by month, he describes, for example, the spawning of schools of herring in March; then, in April, he chronicles how the entire eastern Pacific population of California gray whales migrates the length of North America's Pacific coast. In May "shorebirds appear by the tens of thousands, spend a few nights and move on." In June Pitt-Brooke visits the intertidal zone and reveals that anemones can live up to 100 years. The calendar year concludes with a concentrated history of west coast Vancouver Island, beginning with Don Juan Perez in 1774 and ending with 2001, when Clayoquot Sound is designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. Pitt-Brooke's study of a beautiful landscape is quiet and engaging throughout, and meant to be relished slowly. Rebecca Maksel Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

Because our marine wildlife can’t speak for themselves, we give an objective voice to the causes for their declines. The SeaDoc Society is a non-profit program of the Wildlife Health Center, a center of excellence at the world-renowned UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. The Wildlife Health Center develops and administers innovative programs that create solutions for threatened wildlife and their ailing ecosystems around the world.
 
The SeaDoc Society is funded through a public-private partnership that leverages the intellectual and organizational capital of UC Davis and relies on individuals, foundations and contracts for funding.  Your donation will make a positive contribution to a healthy and sustainable ecosystem for ourselves and generations to come…both wildlife and human.