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Carrying on the Cousteau Legacy
10/26/2026 | 1m 35sVideo has Closed Captions
Alexandra Cousteau, co-founder of the organization Oceans 2050 and granddaughter of...
Alexandra Cousteau, co-founder of the organization Oceans 2050 and granddaughter of the late filmmaker and underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau, stops by Superior Middle School to encourage students involved in a year-long project focused on Lake Superior.
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Carrying on the Cousteau Legacy
10/26/2026 | 1m 35sVideo has Closed Captions
Alexandra Cousteau, co-founder of the organization Oceans 2050 and granddaughter of the late filmmaker and underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau, stops by Superior Middle School to encourage students involved in a year-long project focused on Lake Superior.
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It's yet another exploration for Alexandra Cousteau, this time through the halls of Superior Middle School.
huge government ship... The granddaughter of famed underwater explorer and filmmaker Jacques Cousteau was seven when she first began diving with him.
His legacy lives on through her.
To communicate the importance of the oceans and of protecting the oceans to people For Cousteau, this effort also includes Lake Superior.
As co-founder of Oceans 2050, she says her goal is addressing climate change by moving from protecting oceans and coastlines to restoring them at scale.
The science shows that we can get there by 2050, through the Blue Cities Alliance, which is looking at cities as the most effective unit of change.
Exploration for the future... Here as part of a lecture series at UW Superior,Cousteau also took time to visit eighth graders, taking part in a yearlong place based science curriculum leading up to Lake Superior Experience Day in May.
If we can promote some action, and some stewardship in this generation, then they're able to pass that on.
And that's, that's the message.
that we want them to have.
UWSs Lake Superior Research Institute supports the district's effort that started in 2024.
We have a new resource coming, which is the Sadie Ann.
She is a research and education vessel, that was specifically designed to be able to support whole classrooms of kids.
I think it's important that these kids understand that they can be explorers, they can be part of restoring Lake Superior.
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