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Reef Conservation Strategy Backfires
NPR - Nov 18, 2009
The Kiribati government was concerned about overfishing. So it came up with a plan: It would subsidize the coconut oil industry. Sheila Walsh wanted to know whether this plan was working, and the government invited her to study the issue. So, as part of her graduate work at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, she flew to Kiribati to interview fishermen.
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Saving the Ocean with Robots
Discovery News - Nov 18, 2009
Figuring out where to designate marine protected areas so fish populations can bounce back sounds simple. But it's no easy task, which is why we're going to need water-ready robots. Now, with $913,000 from the National Science Foundation, scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography plan to deploy a crew of autonomous underwater explorers (AUEs) to be their eyes and ears.
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