BLUE Institute is a global education, research and community engagement hub for clean water, healthy oceans and climate change solutions. We currently have two offices - one in Massachusetts on Cape Cod at the Harwich Cultural Center - the other in Newport, Rhode Island (the Ocean State) at Innovate Newport. BLUE Institute is a Registered Nonprofit 501(c)(3) designed to be an "open access" hub for excellence in water, oceans, and climate change education, research and community engagement. We believe in an interdisciplinary approach to our curriculum, research efforts and our community engagement activities such as our World Oceans Day celebrations. The BLUE Institute is a growing strategic consortium of dedicated “Triple Helix” partners (academia, industry, government) on a mission to create solutions for clean water, healthy oceans and climate change issues both local & global and to educate the “NextGen” or next generation of water-thought leaders through hands-on training in the unique fresh water and the saltwater ecosystem at and surrounding Nantucket Sound, Long Island Sound, Narragansett Bay, Cape Cod Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.