Posts Tagged ‘research’
GLORES Partner Spotlight: Dr. Leslie Cornick
This week, we are excited to shine the Global Ocean Refuge System (GLORES) Partner Spotlight on Dr. Leslie Cornick, a member of our distinguished GLORES Science Council! Dr. Leslie Cornick is a marine ecologist and vertebrate physiologist with over 20 years’ experience in marine science and conservation, policy, and stakeholder engagement. She taught at Alaska Pacific University…
Read MoreExplorers at sea: Pulley Ridge and Tortugas research cruise (Part Two)
First discovered in the 1950’s but only recently explored, Pulley Ridge is an underwater dreamland about 100 miles off the Southwest coast of Florida. Marine Conservation Institute became interested in this series of drowned islands with the deepest known photosynthetic coral in US waters when we did our Gulf Gems report on the most biologically…
Read MoreExplorers at sea: Pulley Ridge and Tortugas research cruise
First discovered in the 1950’s but only recently explored, Pulley Ridge is an underwater dreamland about 100 miles off the Southwest coast of Florida. Marine Conservation Institute became interested in this series of drowned islands with the deepest known photosynthetic coral in US waters when we did our Gulf Gems report on the most biologically…
Read MoreResearch Fellow Dr. Sara Maxwell Receives Prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship
Seattle, WA—February 25, 2016— Marine Conservation Institute Research Fellow and Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University, Dr. Sara Maxwell, is a 2016 recipient of the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship. Awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955, the fellowship honors early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements identify them as the next generation of…
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