- With the team of The Outside Foundation, created a long-term initiative to capture oyster shells and use them to create reef for new oysters to grow, funded by a grant from Patagonia
- The initiative required educating the public of the need to recycle shell, reaching volunteers to participate in shell bagging and oyster reef building eventsĀ
- Created partnerships to establish a new oyster shell collection site
- Hand painted the oyster shell recycling collection trailer that is used to collect shell at events like community oyster roastsĀ
- Organized and participated in volunteer events, bagging oyster shells and then (with the assistance of SCDNR) transporting the bagged shell to on-water locations where it is installed as new reef
![Signage used at events to educate on the need to recycle shells](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/c205ac9456653da5f04690395cf3f26c/72cbb48b-c3a3-4719-8426-2e6c3ab5519f_rw_1200.jpeg?h=e54a31277296db32dd02702d79fb8ccb)
Signage used at events to educate on the need to recycle shells
![Original illustration used for Shell Bagging volunteer events](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/c205ac9456653da5f04690395cf3f26c/fd094237-7656-440f-a76d-6591f012f49c_rw_1920.jpeg?h=f69c7e9cdcc537dc9d17bc63bf3e7404)
Original illustration used for Shell Bagging volunteer events
![Hand painted collection trailer](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/c205ac9456653da5f04690395cf3f26c/3e9f274f-591e-4259-9a69-946317379e8e_rw_1920.jpeg?h=939a30e283677992ca7ecd75588913ab)
Hand painted collection trailer
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![Volunteers building an oyster bed](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/c205ac9456653da5f04690395cf3f26c/9d0afe3a-5eea-4e0d-a61b-1f02db16d090_rw_1920.jpeg?h=169b09c6649b0125b6b75b200401f134)
Volunteers building an oyster bed
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![Flyers used to educate public at oyster roast events](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/c205ac9456653da5f04690395cf3f26c/2cd17ebd-6efe-4e0c-bc11-9b43ef1211e4_rw_1200.jpeg?h=46ab0c0b1399b520e73fba6224b851de)