World-renowned oceanographer kicks off 2025 Speaker Series
LAKE TAHOE, Nev./Calif., July 24, 2025 – Keep Tahoe Blue is pleased to announce that the world’s most renowned oceanographer, Jean-Michel Cousteau, will headline the first event in the environmental nonprofit’s 2025 Speaker Series, taking place at the beautiful University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe’s Wayne L. Prim Campus on Saturday, August 23.
Keep Tahoe Blue’s 2025 Speaker Series will feature innovators, pioneers, and changemakers in the fields of science, conservation, and sustainability at three events in the late summer and early fall. The speakers were selected to fascinate, inspire, and motivate people from all walks of life to better understand — then protect — not just Lake Tahoe, but treasured outdoor places around the globe.
The first keynote speaker is an explorer, diplomat, environmentalist, educator, film producer, author, architect, and diver. For over six decades, Jean-Michel Cousteau has dedicated himself to inspiring people of all generations and nations to act responsibly by protecting the ocean and our planet’s water ecosystems, which are so intricately connected to the survival of all life.
Jean-Michel Cousteau’s reputation and vast experience across 80 years of diving and exploration began a generation ago with his father, Jacques Cousteau, aboard the famed ocean research vessels Calypso and Alcyone. Jean-Michel founded Ocean Futures Society in 1999 as a “Voice for the Ocean,” reaching millions of people globally with his inspirational films, programs, projects, and live multimedia presentations. An impassioned global humanitarian, he inspires young people, families, community decision-makers, governments, and industry, energizing alliances for positive change to protect our planet through wise, sustainable environmental policy.
In a landmark collaboration, Jean-Michel Cousteau and Keep Tahoe Blue will unite on Saturday, August 23 to celebrate their shared commitment to water protection. Individual tickets and group packages to the family-friendly event — Jean-Michel Cousteau x Keep Tahoe Blue: A Legacy of Protecting Our Waters — in Incline Village are available for purchase now at keeptahoeblue.org/cousteau. Join us for a once-in-a-lifetime experience rooted in legacy and purpose.
As summer turns to fall, additional Speaker Series events will feature famed Lake Tahoe scientist Dr. Charles Goldman, widely regarded as the “Godfather of Tahoe Limnology,” as well as Sierra Sustainable Builders, Fireclay Tile, and other key partners who designed, sourced, and constructed Tahoe’s first LEED-certified office building, now the new home of Keep Tahoe Blue’s Spurlock/Evers Environment & Education Center. More information is available at keeptahoeblue.org/events.
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Tickets: keeptahoeblue.org/cousteau
Media Contact:
Chris Joseph, Communications Director
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About Keep Tahoe Blue:
We are the donor-funded, science-based organization of environmental experts and Tahoe-lovers behind the movement to Keep Tahoe Blue. We have led the protection and restoration of the Lake Tahoe Basin since 1957 and continue to conserve the health of Tahoe for all, for generations to come. We use science to design innovative solutions, advocate with federal and state partners on behalf of the Lake, and engage thousands of volunteers as citizen scientists and stewards of Tahoe. Learn more, donate, and get involved at keeptahoeblue.org.
About Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Ocean Futures Society:
The mission of Ocean Futures Society is to explore our global ocean, inspiring and educating people throughout the world to act responsibly for its protection, documenting the critical connection between humanity and nature, and celebrating the ocean’s vital importance to the survival of all life on our planet. For more information, please visit www.oceanfutures.org.
About the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe:
Located less than one mile from the shoreline of Lake Tahoe, the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe’s Wayne L. Prim Campus merges experiences across education, research, creative and scholarly work in a stunning mountain environment. With the backdrop of the Sierra Nevada and Lake Tahoe as inspiration, we invite students and faculty, researchers and scholars, artists and leaders to our campus for cutting-edge collaborations and interdisciplinary activities. Join us in the mountains where art, science and the environment meet. Learn more at unr.edu/lake-tahoe.