Dakota Peebler

DAKOTA PEEBLER is a member of Heirs To Our Oceans, a group of seventeen home-schooled kids, ages 10-13, from the San Francisco Bay area, who are taking the ocean crisis into their own hands. They are making a movie about human impacts on the oceans and how these impacts are affecting their generation and their health, as well as future generations. The movie is also going to cover their journey and they hope will turn their movement into a global one. As part of their efforts, they have been going to beach cleanups, protests and anywhere else where they can have a positive effect on our oceans.

Heirs To Our Oceans hopes to engage kids all around the world, encouraging them to take action telling family, friends, siblings and everyone to recognize that their daily actions affect their generation and their health.

Each child in the project has a specialty area. Dakota has two specialties in the project. The first is sea otters, which are a keystone species in the marine ecosystem. Dakota has been researching sea otters for four years, so she was eager to be able to research them further and study them whole-heartedly through this project.

Her second area of specialization is in Palau where her area of focus is their endangered species and creating marine sanctuaries to protect them. Dakota chose this specialty because her mom worked in Palau doing environmental law involving sharks, and, as a result, Dakota became interested in studying the endangered species there and helping protect them through marine sanctuaries. 

Dakota was born in the San Francisco Bay area and grew up in San Mateo. She is eleven and is home schooled. She originally came to Monterey Bay to visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium with her family. They enjoyed it so much, they’ve continued going back and have fallen in love with Monterey Bay.