Dan Haifley
{{short description|American journalist}}
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Dan Haifley is an American environmentalist and newspaper columnist.
From 1999 to 2019, he was Executive Director of O'Neill Sea Odyssey, a non-profit organization offering a free oceanography and ecology program for school-aged youth sailing Monterey Bay{{spaced ndash}}a bay of the Pacific Ocean, along the central coast of California.{{cite web |last=Sammon |first=John |url=http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_14072054?IADID |title=Famed waterman's science program teaches kids importance of ocean |publisher=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=2009-12-26 |accessdate=2013-11-02 |archive-date=2013-11-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105062614/http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_14072054?IADID |url-status=dead }} Rachel Kippen took over the position upon his retirement in March, 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2019/02/24/oneill-sea-odyssey-rachel-kippen-ready-to-take-nonprofits-helm/|title = O'Neill Sea Odyssey: Rachel Kippen ready to take nonprofit's helm|date = 25 February 2019}}
Career
From 1986 to 1993, Haifley was Executive Director of Save Our Shores, based in Santa Cruz, California, where he spearheaded the creation of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary as Co-Chair of the Environmental Working Group which successfully focused on obtaining a boundary extending north to Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary to prevent offshore oil drilling.{{cite web|author=Erika Murillo |url=http://otterrealm.net/article/help-clean-beach |title=Help Clean a Beach |publisher=OtterRealm.net |date=2011-09-19 |accessdate=2013-11-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104010232/http://otterrealm.net/article/help-clean-beach |archivedate=2013-11-04 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.saveourshores.org/about-us/history |accessdate=June 3, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100429153836/http://saveourshores.org/about-us/history |archivedate=April 29, 2010 |title=The History of Save Our Shores | Save Our Shores }} He also led the effort against offshore oil drilling, including passage of twenty-six local ordinances in California counties and cities limiting development of onshore facilities for offshore drilling, and their defense against a lawsuit by the oil industry as represented by the Western Oil and Gas Association.{{cite web |url=http://www.metrosantacruz.com/metro-santa-cruz/08.06.08/cover-0832.html |title=News & Culture in Santa Cruz, CA | Save Our Shores | Ocean Conservation |publisher=Metrosantacruz.com |date= |accessdate=2013-11-02 |archive-date=2013-11-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104093052/http://www.metrosantacruz.com/metro-santa-cruz/08.06.08/cover-0832.html |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-23-mn-1127-story.html |title=New Sanctuary Celebrated Along Monterey Coast : Environment: Proponents of nature preserve applaud Bush Administration decision to protect the region. - Page 2 - Los Angeles Times |publisher=Articles.latimes.com |date=1992-09-23 |access-date=2013-11-02}}
Haifley wrote the column "Our Ocean Backyard" for the Santa Cruz Sentinel newspaper until April, 2019, when Rachel Kippen took over writing duties.{{Cite web|url=https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2019/03/23/rachel-kippen-to-continue-our-ocean-story-telling-dan-haifley-our-ocean-backyard/|title = Rachel Kippen to continue our ocean story | Dan Haifley, Our Ocean Backyard|date = 23 March 2019}}
In August 2011, he was given the Ocean Hero award by Save Our Shores.{{cite web |url=http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_18633122?IADID=Search-www.santacruzsentinel.com-www.santacruzsentinel.com |title=Name Dropping, Aug. 7, 2011: A musical soul of note |publisher=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=2011-08-07 |accessdate=2013-11-02 |archive-date=2013-11-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105064124/http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_18633122?IADID=Search-www.santacruzsentinel.com-www.santacruzsentinel.com |url-status=dead }}
According to the book Jack O'Neill: It's Always Summer on the Inside (2011) by Drew Kampion, Haifley{{spaced ndash}}as the program's executive director{{spaced ndash}}has argued the program's position that ocean concepts should be adopted in formal education standards and made more widely available to youth from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.{{cite web|title=Book of Abstracts|publisher=California and the World Ocean|date=September 17, 2006|page=67|url=http://resources.ca.gov/ocean/cwo06/PDF/abstracts.pdf|accessdate=2013-11-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070611105910/http://resources.ca.gov/ocean/cwo06/PDF/abstracts.pdf|archive-date=June 11, 2007|url-status=dead}}
After his retirement in 2019, Haifley continued to advocate for the ocean and coast through his advocacy for the creation of Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary, the fight against offshore oil, and raising funds for Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary as a board member of the Monterey Bay Chapter of the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation.
See also
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