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Article: Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Names Reef in Memory of NOAA Scientist Nancy Foster.
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- December 2, 2004
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MIAMI, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Nancy Foster, longtime National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist and administrator, has been honored posthumously by Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park with the naming of a section of the world's largest coral reef in her honor. Foster becomes only the second American so recognized, the other is famed ecologist and author Rachel Carson for whom a reef was designated in 1996. NOAA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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"This is a tremendous honor in Nancy's memory," said Joseph Geraci, her husband and director of Biological ...