Challenges beneath the waves | Bob Davidson | TEDxRainier

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Learn about the challenges that our curiosity and engagement can do more to address. Ocean acidification, starfish wasting disease, and plastics pollution are having enormous impacts on our nearby and global waters. See what people are doing and what we can do to understand and respond to help our waters return to a better state.

Bob Davidson has been the President & CEO of the Seattle Aquarium since 2010, after serving as CEO of the Seattle Aquarium Society since 2002. He guided a repositioning of the Aquarium Society leading to the successful Aquarium Operations and Management Agreement with Seattle in 2009. A key component was the $41.5 million public/private New Currents Aquarium expansion in 2007, which has increased attendance and made Seattle the ninth largest aquarium in the US. He was also a leader in the earlier $40 million project to revitalize Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo, during which time he worked as co-initiator of Mayor Royer’s Zoo Commission, board president of the Zoological Society, and as the zoo’s Executive Director & CEO.


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