On March 31st, Dr. Moore and four Marine Affairs graduate students presented together on a panel at the Archipelagos and Aquapelagos conference in New York City. Generously hosted by Pratt Institute’s Global South Center in Brooklyn, the conference highlighted the concept of the “aquapelago,” Philip Hayward’s critical reframing of the archipelago that moves beyond the idea of islands as mere contiguous land masses to connect island marine, land, and social space. Keynote speaker, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui of Wesleyan University, drew attention to indigenous sovereignty movements and colonial militarism in the islands of Hawa’ii, and Philip Hayward of Southern Cross University unpacked the “aquapelago” concept and its etymology. The Marine Affairs panel was titled, “Anthropocene Aquapelagos: Islands, Infrastructures, and Tourism in our Era of Anthropogenesis.” Dr. Moore kicked off the presentation by describing the Anthropocene as a tourism phenomenon, comparing an underwater sculpture garden off the shores of Nassau, Bahamas, and the tourism industry dynamics emerging around the Block Island Wind Farm in Rhode Island. Doctoral candidate Jessica Vandenberg presented on her research in the Spermonde aquapelago, Indonesia, where a corporate social responsibility (CSR) coral restoration project is altering local livelihoods and epistemologies in her talk entitled “Linking island politics with marine spaces through coral restoration in Indonesia.” Taking us across the Makassar Strait to the Derawan Islands (Kepulauan Derawan), MAMA student Heva Yumi presented her work on the changes brought to the archipelago by Derawan’s designation as a tourism island by the regional government in “Welcome to The Derawan Tourism Village, Berau, Indonesia: The Aquapelagic Island.” Doctoral candidate Kaytee Canfield undertook an interview-based network analysis of California’s Catalina Island, and it’s internal hierarchies and schisms in her talk “Catalina Island: A vacation in paradise, a life without influence.” And MAMA student Rennie Meyers projected the future of aquapelagic tourism in her descriptive environmental history of Lanzarote’s underwater museum, the Museo Atlantico, entitled “Art Islands and Engineering Inhabitance.”