Dear Friend,
As many of you may have already guessed, we have canceled the 2020 SeaDoc Society Wine & Sea Auction due to the current COVID-19 pandemic. This event was originally planned for July 11th on Orcas Island. This annual fundraiser is one of our favorite days of the year because it allows us to gather with you, our supporters, and celebrate our shared accomplishments and make investments in future ones. At this time, however, our collective health is most important, and we look forward to the time when we can come together again.
SeaDoc turns 20 this year and we still hope to be able to get together with you sometime later in the year to celebrate all that we have been able to accomplish together over the last two decades. We’ll continue to monitor the situation and stay in touch as things move forward.
In the meantime, we hope you are doing well and that you stay healthy. Many of you are working on the front lines of this pandemic or supporting emergency needs in your community and we thank you for that. Our team is still working from home using science, outreach and education to improve ocean health.
We know that currently our collective focus is correctly on the human health crisis at hand and we thank those of you who are supporting emergency needs in your community. If it is important for you to also be supporting a healthy ocean and environment at this time, we always welcome your investment in the work we do.
All the best,
Team SeaDoc