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Dauphin Island Sea Lab Marine Scientist Receives
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Contact: Lisa Young 334/861-7509 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 11, 2001 (Dauphin Island, Alabama) Dauphin Island Sea Lab Marine Scientist Receives National Geographic Grant to Study Coral Reef Degradation Dr. Richard Aronson, Senior Marine Scientist at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab and Associate Professor at the University of South Alabama, has received a $25,000 grant from National Geographic to reconstruct the history of the coral reef community at Alacran Reef, in the southern Gulf of Mexico, north of the Yucatan Peninsula. By studying the paleontological history of these reefs, Dr. Aronson hopes to gather evidence whether the current degradation of Caribbean reefs is part of a long-term cycle, or a new and unprecedented phenomenon in the history of reefs. Dr. Aronson recently published a research paper in the scientific journal Nature about the effects of El Nino on coral bleaching in Belize. His third research site is in Panama. |
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