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xerxes300
11-01-2018, 02:37 AM
Dr Ruth Gates, a preeminent coral-reef biologist and marine conservationist best remembered for advocating the breeding of a “super coral” that could resist the effects of global warming and replenish rapidly deteriorating reefs worldwide, died Oct. 25 at a hospital in Kailua, Hawaii. She was 56.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/ruth-gates-renowned-coral-scientist-and-conservation-advocate-dies-at-56/2018/10/31/535ca9da-dc73-11e8-b732-3c72cbf131f2_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.23dd31a94753

She also appeared in the Emmy Award-winning Netflix documentary “Chasing Coral” (2017) and became a frequent commentator in the media on reef conservation as well as the effects of climate change.
https://youtu.be/b6fHA9R2cKI

albert_dao
11-01-2018, 03:30 PM
Man, that sucks...