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Benjamin S. Halpern [1] is a marine biologist and ecologist currently working at the University of California, Santa Barbara.His research has addressed a broad range of questions that span local to global scales, including spatial population dynamics, trophic interactions in community ecology, and the interface between ecology and human dynamics, all with the ultimate aim of informing and ...
Jane Lubchenco (born December 4, 1947) is an American environmental scientist and marine ecologist who teaches and conducts research at Oregon State University.Her research interests include interactions between the environment and human well-being, biodiversity, climate change, and sustainable use of oceans and the planet.
A teacher at Holliday's school encouraged him to study biology at university rather than English literature which he had also been considering. [4] He had been offered a place at the University of Cambridge but turned it down. [3] He instead attended the University of Sheffield where he could study under Sir Hans Krebs, a Nobel Prize-winner. [1]
Marine biology studies species that live in marine habitats. Most of the Earth's surface is covered by ocean, which is the home to marine life. Oceans average nearly four kilometers in-depth and are fringed with coastlines that run for about 360,000 kilometres. [4] [5] Marine biology can be contrasted with biological oceanography.
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (born 1980 or 1981 [5]) is a marine biologist, policy expert, and conservation strategist. She is the co-founder of Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for ocean-climate policy in coastal cities, [2] [6] and the Roux Distinguished Scholar at Bowdoin College. [7]
It also makes underwater photographs available through its Digital Atlas of Marine Species and Locations, which is a database that includes photos of specific marine species. [25] Since 1951, Rosenstiel School has published Bulletin of Marine Science a scientific journal which publishes research papers in marine subject areas covered by the ...
The ruling by the Privy Council is considered a big win for John Mussington, a marine biologist, and Jacklyn Frank, a retired teacher, who launched a legal fight against the government of the twin ...
This is a list of marine biologists. Jacques-Yves Cousteau, co-inventor of the aqua-lung, is well known for popularizing marine biology. Donald Putnam Abbott (1920–1986), American marine invertebrate zoologist; Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919–2010), American marine botanist; Ali Abdelghany (born 1944), Egyptian marine biologist