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Article: Ocean Conservancy President and CEO to Testify Before House Select Committee on Global Climate Change
- Article from:
- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- April 25, 2008
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The Ocean Conservancy issued the following news release:
What: Select Committee to hear testimony focused on the impacts of global climate change on the world's oceans and, specifically, coral reef ecosystems. Coral reefs are some of the most diverse and critical habitats in our ocean - they are the feeding areas, and breeding grounds for species found nowhere else in the ocean and are some of the first ecosystems to be affected by a warmer planet.
Who:
* Vikki Spruill, president and CEO of Ocean Conservancy
* Sylvia Earle, Oceanographer and Explorer in Residence, National Geographic Member, Board of Directors, Ocean Conservancy
* Joan A. Kleypas, Ph.D., Scientist, Institute for the Study ...