Dear Heal the Ocean Supporters,

As we close out 2025, we want to extend our deepest gratitude. Every win we’ve celebrated this year was possible because of you: our donors, supporters, volunteers, partners, and community. Whether you joined a cleanup, contributed financially, shared our mission with others, or partnered on a project, you have been at the heart of every step forward.

• Massive Cleanup of the Santa Ynez Riverbed

• Extreme Tides Inform Sea Level Rise

• Montecito Beautification Day Cleanup

• Habitat Restoration (11/16): Raincheck!

• Heather Hudson Wins 2025 Roger Nance Ohana Award!

• Volunteers Needed for Habitat Restoration

• Earthcomb Celebrates Removing 250 Tons of Trash 

• Santa Ynez Riverbed Cleanup This Week

• Highlights from Recent Events

• Santa Barbara County Moves to Phase Out Gas and Oil

• Point Conception Boat Wreck Removed

• HTO’s 2025 Newsletter

• HTO Cleans Butterfly Beach Encampments and Beached Vessel

• HTO Mingled and Learned at the SBSFF Women’s Panel and Screening of the Cost of Silence Film

• Visit us This Fall at Upcoming Events!

• Boat Removal Scheduled at Point Conception

• HTO's 27th Anniversary was Celebrated with Flags on State Street

• HTO and Earthcomb Tackle Tar on SB Beaches

• Boat Wreck Removed by HTO from Butterfly Beach

• HTO and Earthcomb Clean Up After Fiesta

• Oil Drilling in SB County

• HTO Takes a Leadership Role on Coastal Resilience

• Coastal Cleanup Day on September 20 – Join us

• HTO Flags Will Fly on State Street on Our Anniversary

• Last Call to be listed on our Gala Invite!

• HTO 2025 Gala Campaign – Join our Community, Be a Sponsor!

• To the Rescue – HTO Removing Boat off Butterfly Beach

• HTO’s Executive Director Karina Johnston Gets to Work on Goleta Slough Resilience

• Our Beloved Hero – Andrew V – hits the media!

• Amber McEldowney joins HTO Team as Operations Manager

• And More…

Heal the Ocean (HTO) filled the El Paseo Restaurant on Thursday, June 19, to celebrate the “Passing of the Torch” to HTO’s new Executive Director, Karina Johnston, and to pay tribute to Hillary Hauser, who has been leading the organization for 27 years.

Heal the Ocean is thrilled to announce Karina Johnston as its next Executive Director! Karina brings more than 16 years of leadership in coastal environmental science and nonprofit management, along with a deep passion for ocean and coastal health. 

Dear Friends, Supporters, and Partners,

Heal the Ocean is currently searching for an Operations and Outreach Manager—someone with office management and administrative experience to help keep the HTO office running smoothly, and to engage with our community and supporters. Our ideal candidate is organized, detail-oriented, and passionate about ocean health. 

• Andrew to the Rescue! HTO/Earthcomb Clean Up Abandoned Camp at Butterfly Beach

• SOMS Geologist Ira Leifer Presenting HTO Summerland Oil Cleanup Data at Oil Spill Workshop

• Global Students, Local Impact: 190 lbs Removed at East Beach

• Join HTO at the 2025 Earth Day Festival!

Summerland Well Re-Abandonment Starting Late February

• Encore SBIFF Screening: "Out of Plain Sight"

• Join HTO’s Next Beach Cleanup in Collaboration with Topa Topa

• HTO Film Featured in SBIFF

• How to Return Lost Lobster Traps

HTO is thrilled to share exciting news: two more leaking legacy oil wells in Summerland, CA, have been proposed for abandonment (capping)under the same permit that facilitated the capping of Olsson 805, Duquesne, NorthStar, and Treadwell 1, 5, and 10.