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    Alison Green

    alison-greenAlison Green is senior marine scientist with The Nature Conservancy's Tropical Marine Conservation Program in the Asia Pacific Conservation Region. She is also the Marine Protected Areas Strategy Lead for the Conservancy's Coral Triangle Program. Her areas of expertise include coral reef ecology, monitoring, and the design and implementation of Marine Protected Areas. Alison lives in Brisbane, Australia, where she blogs for Cool Green Science on issues related to marine conservation, particularly coral reefs. (Photo Credit: Emre Turak)



    Posts by Alison Green:

    Listening to Coral Reefs: It’s Loud

    Editor’s Note: Alison Green, senior marine scientist for The Nature Conservancy, recently traveled to Papua New Guinea to see cutting-edge marine work by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the Coral Triangle, the most biodiverse marine region on Earth. Also read her  posts from Papua New Guinea on sea-surface monitoring and climate [...]

    Cryptic Coral Reef Organisms! (What Are Those?)

    Editor’s Note: Alison Green, senior marine scientist for The Nature Conservancy, recently traveled to Papua New Guinea to see cutting-edge marine work by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the Coral Triangle, the most biodiverse marine region on Earth. Also read her first post from Papua New Guinea on sea-surface monitoring and [...]

    Beam Me Up, Scotty! First Satellite Buoy to Monitor Ocean Temps in the Coral Triangle

    What can a buoy in the ocean do in the fight against the effects of climate change? A lot, as I found out last week in the Coral Triangle — the most biodiverse marine region in the world.
    I visited Kimbe Bay in Papua New Guinea with three scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: [...]

    The Coral Triangle: a Refuge from Climate Change?

    The Nature Conservancy contributed to the ground-breaking report “The Coral Triangle and Climate Change: Ecosystems, People and Societies at Risk”, which was released in May at the World Oceans Conference and Coral Triangle Initiative Summit in Manado, Indonesia. 
    Compilation of the report was led by WWF and Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg of the University of Queensland, who [...]

    What the Coral Triangle Initiative Means to Me

    There has been much excitement recently regarding the Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) — a pathbreaking commitment by the governments of Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, the Philippines, East Timor and Malaysia to protect marine resources in the region known as the Coral Triangle, which is the most biodiverse marine area on the planet.
    Since [...]

    Expedition to Mozambique: Weird Mass Coral Bleaching

    Editor’s note: Alison Green, senior marine biologist at The Nature Conservancy, helped conduct an assessment of a proposed marine reserve in Mozambique. In this series of blog posts, she explains why the area is so special and what the Conservancy is doing to help preserve the marine resources here and the livelihoods that depend on them.
    Climate change [...]

    Expedition to Mozambique: Measuring Conservation Success

    Editor’s note: Alison Green, senior marine biologist at The Nature Conservancy, recently helped conduct an assessment of a proposed marine reserve in Mozambique. In this series of blog posts, she explains why the area is so special and what the Conservancy is doing to help preserve the marine resources here and the livelihoods that depend on them. [...]

    Expedition to Mozambique: Protecting Marine Resources and Improving Livelihoods

    Editor’s note: Alison Green, senior marine biologist at The Nature Conservancy, helped conduct an assessment of a proposed marine reserve in Mozambique. In this series of blog posts, she explains why the area is so special and what the Conservancy is doing to help preserve the marine resources here and the livelihoods that depend on them.
    Recently [...]

    Expedition to Palmyra Atoll: Farewell…and What’s Next?

    (Editor’s note: Alison Green, senior marine biologist at The Nature Conservancy, has just finished two weeks diving and exploring Palmyra Atoll as part of the first marine assessment of the atoll. Read all her posts from Palmyra on Cool Green Science…and learn more about the expedition.)
    Our excellent adventure at Palmyra Atoll is now over, and [...]

    Expedition to Palmyra Atoll, Day 9: Shark!

    (Editor’s note: Alison Green, senior marine biologist at The Nature Conservancy, is spending the next two weeks diving and exploring Palmyra Atoll as part of the first marine assessment of the atoll. Follow her posts from Palmyra on Cool Green Science…and learn more about the expedition.)
    Shark: Just the word seems to strike fear in the [...]

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