[Coral-List] Colwell Keynote at AMLC
slegore at mindspring.com
slegore at mindspring.com
Wed Jan 24 22:01:57 EST 2007
Dr. Rita Colwell, the immediate past Director of the U.S. National
Science Foundation will present the keynote address to open the 50^th
Anniversary Meeting of the Association of Marine Laboratories of the
Caribbean, scheduled for June 4-8, 2007 at the University of the
Virgin Islands in St. Thomas.
Dr. Colwell was appointed as the 11^th Director of the NSF by
President Bill Clinton, serving from 1998 to 2004. She currently
serves as Distinguished University Professor both at the University of
Maryland and at Johns Hopkins, as well as serving as Chairman of Canon
US Life Sciences, Inc. Dr. Colwell is an internationally respected
scientist and educator, who has authored or co-authored 16 books and
more than 700 scientific publications, and somehow found time to also
produce the award-winning film: Invisible Seas.
A second featured speaker at the 2007 meeting will be Dr. Craig
Venter, one of the world???s leading scientists and among the most
frequently cited in scientific publications. In 1998, Dr. Venter
founded Celera Genomics to sequence the human genome. The successful
completion of this research culminated with the February 2001
publication of the human genome in Science. He is now working on a
broad program to define microbial genomes, including many from marine
environments.
The Meeting Announcement and Call for Papers may be found at the AMLC
website: [1]http://www.amlc-carib.org which contains a bolded link to
the announcement.
All institutions and individuals with professional interest in
Caribbean marine science, marine resource management, and marine
education are encouraged to attend. We will welcome your
participation in our 50^th Anniversary Meeting.
We hope to see you there!
Steve LeGore
Steve LeGore, Ph.D.
LeGore Environmental Associates, Inc.
2804 Gulf Drive N.
Holmes Beach, Florida 34217 USA
Executive Director,
Association of Marine Laboratories of the Caribbean
Tel: 941/778-4650
Fax: 941/778-4650
Cell: 941/447-8010
E-mail: slegore at mindspring.com
References
1. http://www.amlc-carib.org/
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