Oceanites, Inc.

At Oceanites, we count penguins in Antarctica to help save the planet from the devastating impacts of global climate change. We've done so since 1994.

I write to introduce you to Oceanites and its Founder Ron Naveen, the dedicated person who leads this wonderful not-for-profit organization.

And, as a volunteer and donor at Oceanites, I write to ask for your help.

I'm giving my time and money to benefit Oceanites so Antarctic penguins can help us understand what climate change is doing to their world and so that we can understand what it will do to ours.

That's the wonderful part of this story: The penguins are helping us to protect and sustain the planet we share.

Between December and early February each year, we send expeditions to the Antarctic to count penguins and have done so for 26 seasons. 

Unfortunately, the global Coronavirus pandemic and its human tragedy have combined to stop our ability to raise the money Oceanites needs to continue expeditions to see how our waddling penguin friends are doing and to see first hand if their numbers have grown or sadly continued to decline.

In the meantime, the planet continues to warm, our climate continues to change, the weather is becoming more perilous, and fires are raging more than ever, taking lives, homes and landscapes.


Perhaps you'd like to help.

We will put your donation to work to help us fund our next trip to the Antarctic, to count our feathery friends and to tell their story. 

Visit us at: oceanites.org.

And, by clicking on this link, you can tell children around you the story of how: Ron Counts Penguins

Thank you so very much,

Scott Deitz
Oceanites volunteer