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PEW FELLOWS PROGRAM IN MARINE CONSERVATION |
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2007 PEW FELLOWS IN MARINE CONSERVATION ANNOUNCED |
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Five individuals from Australia, Japan and the United States are recipients of the 2007 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation, awarded by the Pew Institute for Ocean Science.
Each Fellow will receive $150,000 to conduct a three-year conservation project designed to address critical challenges to healthy oceans: two will focus on the challenges of global climate change in managing ocean ecosystems in the Bering Sea and Pacific Ocean, and the three others will explore new strategies to design and develop marine protected areas in Japan, the Philippines and Spain.
The recipients join more than 100 Pew Marine Conservation Fellows from 27 countries.
The 2007 Pew Fellows in Marine Conservation and their projects are:
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Dorothy Childers
Program director at the Alaska Marine Conservation Council in Anchorage, Alaska, Childers will address the challenges of fisheries management in the Bering Sea in the face of climate change.
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Patrick Christie, Ph.D.
Assistant professor at the University of Washington's School of Marine Affairs and the Jackson School of International Studies, Christie will focus on the creation of marine protected area networks Philippines.
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David Hyrenbach, Ph.D.
A research scientist at the Duke University Marine Laboratory and presently, a visiting scholar at the University of Washington's School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Hyrenbach will evaluate marine protected areas for highly-mobile marine vertebrates in the Alborán Sea.
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Hiroyuki Matsuda, Ph.D.
A professor at the Yokohama National University in Yokohama and the first Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation from Japan, Matsuda will develop a marine management plan for the Shiretoko World Natural Heritage site in the Sea of Okhotsk.
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Thomas Okey, Ph.D.
A senior quantitative marine ecologist with the Department of Marine and Atmospheric Research at the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Australia, Okey will research impacts of climate change on the marine ecosystems of North American and Australian Pacific ocean regions.
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