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The Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation welcomes the 2012 Pew Marine Fellows!
The prestigious Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation is annually awarded to outstanding global leaders or teams who are working to preserve and protect the world's oceans and marine species.
Alex Aguilar is a specialist in the conservation of marine mammals with a particular emphasis on the study of the demography, ecology, and management of marine threatened species and the impact of chemical pollutants on ecosystems.
Region: Mediterranean Sea
Angel Alcala has more than 30 years of experience in tropical marine resource conservation throughout Southeast Asia in academic, government and consultant positions. Alcala is known as an international authority on the community ecology, biogeography and systematics of Philippine amphibians and reptiles.
Region: North Pacific
Richard Allen, a native of Massachusetts and a resident of Rhode Island, began his commercial fishing career as a clam digger while attending the University of Rhode Island.
Region: North Atlantic
Susan Anderson is one of the few researchers studying the effects of genotoxic substances on ecosystems and she is a champion of the use of biomarkers to provide precise measurements of genetic damage caused by contamination, including radiation and pollution from pesticides, herbicides, oil spills, pulp mill discharges and mining activities.
Region: Arctic Ocean
Shankar Aswani is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and in the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Marine Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is an honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Auckland. Aswani conducts research in Pacific Island communities in the areas of anthropology, human ecology, and marine science.
Region: South Pacific
Peter Auster is a senior research scientist at Mystic Aquarium. He is a marine ecologist and his work is focused broadly on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity in the ocean.
Region: Global
John Avise’s research career has centered on the study of the natural history, ecology, and evolution of animal populations in nature using molecules as genetic markers.
Region: North America
Scott Baker is the associate director of the Marine Mammal Institute and a professor of fisheries and wildlife at Oregon State University in the U.S. Baker’s research includes both molecular and demographic approaches to the basic and applied investigation of evolutionary pattern and process in whales and dolphins, including their abundance, population structure and genetic diversity.
Andrew Baker, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and a native of the United Kingdom. He will use his Pew Fellowship to help equip the world’s ailing corals to better survive climate change by developing groundbreaking techniques to enhance the thermal tolerance of corals to protect them from warming oceans.
Region: Atlantic Ocean
Kamaljit Bawa was born and raised in India. His first research on biodiversity was part of an effort at Panjab University to study patterns of chromosomal and morphological variation in tropical and sub-tropical tree species. He came to the United States in 1967, and in 1969 resumed his research on the genetic basis of species richness in tropical forests of Central America. After working for many years in Costa Rica, Bawa returned to research on forests in India in 1990.
Region: Asia
