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Nancy Knowlton

Nancy Knowlton

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Sant Chair of Marine Science Emerita

National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian

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Dr. Nancy Knowlton is a coral reef biologist who spent much of her career at the Smithsonian, initially in Panama at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and later at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.  She was also a professor at Yale and the founding director of the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego. She is the author of Citizens of the Sea and former Editor-in-Chief of the Smithsonian’s Ocean Portal. She is a recipient of many honors, including election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the International Coral Reef Society’s Darwin Medal. In 2014 she helped launch #OceanOptimism on Twitter to shine a spotlight on what is working in ocean conservation. 

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The Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO), directed by the Smithsonian’s Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network (TMON), is a network of partners researching biodiversity as the heart of healthy, productive, coastal ecosystems, where marine life and people are concentrated and interact most. MarineGEO marshals the Smithsonian’s leadership in discovery and convening power to advance knowledge useful to decision-makers in supporting innovative management and protection of marine life.