I drew on a range of disciplines including human geography, environmental science, environmental psychology, and green politics.

I used pure mixed methods, gathering and integrating quantitative and qualitative data. Data was collected through online survey, in person interview, and ethnographic observation in an iterative process.

Key findings were re-defining marine citizenship, discovering a generic marine place attachment, and developing a Marine Identity Theory operating in the value-action gap and motivating marine citizenship.

Marine citizenship is exercising the right to participate in the transformation of the human-ocean relationship.