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News Releases
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MCBI recently issued these news releases:
- New Research to explore Hawaii's ecological past July 30th , 2008
Today at the Hawaii Conservation Conference in Honolulu, Marine Conservation Biology Institute (MCBI) announced the recipients of its 2008 Mia J. Tegner Memorial Research Grants in Marine Environmental History and Historical Marine Ecology. This granting program is one of the first of its kind to support efforts that look at past ocean conditions....
- New Research Reveals Shark Superhighways and Hotspots
Insights can inform urgently needed shark conservatio strategies February 18, 2008
The world’s sharks are disappearing. These fearsome yet charismatic fish continue to fall victim to overfishing and many are now at risk of extinction as a result. New research shows that open-ocean sharks are particularly threatened from overfishing, and other work shows that the deeper sharks live, the longer it takes for their populations to recover...
- Ocean Iron Fertilization and Carbon Sequestration: Can the Oceans Save the Planet? February 18, 2008
Over the past decade, the issue of global climate change has moved from a scientific possibility to a political reality. As scientific evidence of climate change has mounted, so has the political pressure to consider approaches to help mitigate the magnitude and rate of change and to reduce the scale of environmental impacts...
- Dragnet - Bottom Trawling, the World’s Most Severe and Extensive Seafloor Disturbance February 14, 2008
Bottom trawling, an industrial fishing method that drags large, heavy nets across the seafloor stirs up huge, billowing plumes of sediment on shallow seafloors that can be seen from space...
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- NOAA Releases Report on US Deep-sea Coral Ecosystems December 10, 2007
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released a new report today, The State of Deep Coral Ecosystems of the United States. The peer-reviewed report, prepared by NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program, documents the biology, distribution, and types of deep-sea corals on the continental shelves and slopes of the US including its US Caribbean and Pacific territories...
- Marine Conservation Organization Announces Grants in Historical Marine Ecology August 29, 2007
Marine Conservation Biology Institute announced today the recipients of the 2007 Mia J. Tegner Memorial Research Grants in Marine Environmental History and Historical Marine Ecology. This granting program is one of the first in the world to exclusively support projects documenting the long-term influence of human activities on ocean life and marine ecosystems...
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Congress Passes Legislation to Protect Deep Sea Corals from Fishing Gear December 8, 2006
Congress today passed legislation that establishes a new national policy for the conservation of deep sea coral ecosystems. The corals provision is a part of a broader measure to revise the management of federal fisheries within the exclusive economic zone of the United States, a vast oceanic area larger than our nation’s land mass...
- Environmentalists Praise Bush's Action to Create the World’s Largest Marine Protected Area: Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument June 15, 2006
President George W. Bush will announce today his intention to establish the world’s largest marine protected area – over 84 million acres - to safeguard a remote, biologically rich string of islands and submerged lands known as the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI)....
- MCBI releases the first report on the distribution, threats, and management of US deep sea corals June 8, 2006
Deep sea corals provide shelter, feeding areas, and breeding grounds for many marine organisms, including several commercially important fish species, and have shown great promise in treating human diseases including cancer.....
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