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Editor's Picks of the Week
- Webinar - Turning the tide of parachute science
- Webinar - Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation
- Webinar - How to do science so it influences marine policy and management: A panel discussion with a focus on Latin America, Caribbean, and African contexts
- Grant/RFP - NOAA 2022 Environmental Literacy Program
- News - Artificial light may be changing marine ecosystems
- News - The EBM Toolbox: Resources for the sustainable financing of marine protected areas
- News - Perspective: Marine ecosystem-based management and wicked problems require incrementalism, not command and control
- News - Why we should be optimistic about the future of MPA finance: Interview with Amílcar Guzmán Valladares and Viviana Luján Gallegos of Wolfs Company
- News - Promoting a portfolio of regional MPA projects to potential donors and investors
- News - Steering the behavior of MPA users: Why a diversity of approaches is the key to MPA governance
- News - How the post-COVID world will be different for MPAs (and how practitioners can plan ahead for the next disruption)
- News - Science Corner: Learning networks - Partially protected marine areas - MPAs that move over time - MPAs and heat waves
- News - Notes & News: 83 nations commit to 30x30 - Blue Action Fund call for proposals - Tripling an MPA's size - Mediterranean MPAs and fishing - Bottom trawling and UK MPAs - Finance guide - Around the web - MPA News vault
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- Marine Educator and Public Program Coordinator; UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant
- Vice President, Oceans Area-Based Conservation; World Wildlife Fund
- Marine Scientist; Oceana
- Postdoctoral Scholar Position in Social-Ecological Dynamics of Coastal Systems; Florida State University Coastal and Marine Laboratory
- Communications Specialist; Delaware Center for the Inland Bays