Hillary Hauser

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Born1944 (age 8182)
Palo Alto, California
OccupationWriter, environmental activist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Hillary Hauser
Born1944 (age 8182)
Palo Alto, California
OccupationWriter, environmental activist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUSA
EducationB.A. English Literature
Alma materUniversity of Washington
GenreNon-fiction
SubjectOceans, adventure, underwater diving, environment
Notable worksCall to Adventure
Notable awardsNOGI Award for Distinguished Service 2009 from the Academy of Underwater Arts & Sciences
Website
healtheocean.org

Hillary Rika Hauser (1944) is an American photojournalist and environmental activist with a focus on the oceansunderwater diving adventure, politics, and conservation. In 2009, in recognition of her ocean environmental work as it relates to underwater diving, Hauser received the NOGI Award for Distinguished Service from the Academy of Underwater Arts and Sciences.[1][2] In 2013, the Academy elected Hauser as president of its board of directors.[3]

Hauser is an author, journalist and news reporter, and has six published books about the sea and underwater exploration, as well as numerous articles in major periodicals including National Geographic, Geo, Islands, Esquire, Redbook, The Surfer’s Journal, Reader’s Digest, and the Los Angeles Times. From 1969 through 1977, she was the West Coast stringer for Ocean Science News Washington D.C., and from 1981 to 1986, she was the ocean/marine reporter for the Santa Barbara News-Press.[4]

Diver

Hauser started scuba diving in 1966 and was an editor of Skin Diver Magazine from 1969 to 1971.[5] In 1979 she became the publicist for the Diving Equipment Manufacturers (now Marketing) Association (DEMA),[6] and came up with the bumper sticker program, "Discover Diving",[7] a label that went on to become a major promotional jingle in the dive world, as well as a title to a magazine. She has made over 5,000 dives[8] and was inducted into the Women Divers Hall of Fame in 2000.[9]

Environmental activist

An environmental activist, in 1998, Hauser co-founded Heal the Ocean,[10] a 3,000-member[11] environmental advocacy group in Santa Barbara, California, and serves as its executive director. The organization focuses on how wastewater technology impacts the ocean, facilitating wastewater treatment plant upgrade, and removal of septic tanks from creeks, marshes, bays, and beaches.[12][13][14] For this, and other work, Hauser and Heal the Ocean have been commended with recognition from the U.S. Congress, as well the Central Coast (California) Regional Water Quality Control Board (2006, 2008), the California State Assembly (2009), and in 2-13 a Joint Assembly/Senate Resolution (No. 404) from the California Legislature (Jackson/Williams).[15] For their 15 years of working to remove septic systems from 7 miles of south Santa Barbara County beaches, including the world-famous Rincon surf break, Hauser and Heal the Ocean organization received a Commendation from the Regional Water Quality Control Board on January 19, 2015, and commendations also came from the California State Senate and the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors. Singer-songwriter Jack Johnson included Hauser on his 2017 list of 13 Coastal Heroes for Coastal Living Magazine.[16][17]

Classical pianist

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