About AnEcoScape
AnEcoScape has been the aspiration of its creator, Benjamin F Hamilton, since his childhood.
The purpose of AnEcoScape is to assist the biosphere and its human advocacy through the use of education to grow our knowledge, change our behaviors, and to align with what is required to achieve sustainability. We strive to help the biosphere flourish in ways that counteracts past and present encroachments and to allow it to heal itself.
AnEcoScape work in local areas in Southern California where we are most potent and experienced, but at the same time aims to stimulate activities around the world through our local actions. These actions ranges from organizing Beach Clean Ups to plan for the building of a substrate reef in Santa Monica Bay..
Ben Hamilton and the AnEcoScape Team
Our Philosophy & Mission
AnEcoScape’s mission is to transform and improve the health, productivity, and diversity of near shore marine environments and nearby terrestrial biosphere.
- Biosphere First Priority For Our Planet
- Action Requires Education – Create Disciplined Human Behavior Through Education
- Proper Research Methods: Measure, Record, Analyze, and Monitor of Data and Share through Communications and Educational Programs.
We at AnEcoScape strives to bridge from discussion to actually building scalable programs, methods, and equipment to correct impacts to the biosphere.
About the Founder & Creator
Ben Hamilton – Founder and Chair
Ben is a retired federal seafood inspector and spent close to two decades assuring the quality and safety of seafood products for the consumer fro both US and international markets. He has a Masters in Marine Biology and his thesis in. the early 1970 demonstrated that mercury pollution affected the primary productivity of phytoplankton and how it impacts the hierarchical food chain. This thesis led him to be hired by USC and later the Shell Chemical Co working with Marine Research.
Ben is a California native. He spent his childhood in Paso Robles and in his early teenage years his family moved to Malibu, so he spent a lot of his time in the nature then became an avid surfer. Ben was involved in the early surfing generation on the beach in Malibu in the1960’s, and was an early member of the newly founded Surfrider’s Foundation. HIs upbringing made him acutely aware of our beaches and ocean, and the importance of caring for them properly.
Ocean Pollution
Surfing in California
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AnEcoScape
A Registered 501(c)(3)
Non Profit Organization
