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Dr. John J. Dindo
Named Interim Director
of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab
Dec 12, 2007
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For Immediate Release: September 12, 2007
Dauphin Island, Alabama
The Board of Directors of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab has named Dr.
John J.
Dindo, Chair of K-12 Education and Public Outreach at the Dauphin
Island Sea
Lab (DISL), and long-time Assistant to the Director, as Interim
Director,
effective December 17. The Sea Lab’s current Executive Director, Dr.
George
F. Crozier, will retire at the end of 2007.
Dindo has been with the Sea Lab for over 30 years, arriving as a
graduate
student in 1975. He became Director of Discovery Hall Programs, the
Sea Lab’s
K-12 Education and Public Outreach Programs, in 1979.
Dindo earned his Ph.D. from the University of Alabama, Birmingham in
1991.
His research interests include marine vertebrate ecology, avian
breeding
ecology, and predator-prey relationships in avian fauna.
Governor Bob Riley named Dindo an Outdoor Ambassador for the state
of Alabama
in 2006. That year, Dindo also received the Outstanding Alumni Award
from the
University of Alabama at Birmingham’s School of Natural Sciences and
Mathematics where he earned his master’s and Ph.D.
Dr. Dindo will serve as Interim Director until the Board of Director
names a
new Executive Director, for which the search is currently in
progress. The
current Chair of the Board of Directors is President V. Gordon
Moulton,
University of South Alabama.
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