MARINE RESEARCH
Dr. Margaret Leinen, executive director, HBOI, Associate Provost Marine
and Environmental Initiatives.
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The Johnson Education Center has classrooms and laboratories that are
used for marine science instruction for St. Lucie County’s Marine and
Oceanographic Academy high school program and for FAU’s undergraduate
and graduate programs. The building also houses Harbor Branch
360-seat auditorium, which is where the institute’s well-attended Ocean
Science Lectures are given.
we can make our vision of being strategic partners work.”
In the more distant future, Leinen expects to hire a new
group of scientists to look into issues that include ecosystems
and sea level rise and how to prepare and adapt. She expects
to develop strong partnerships with Brazil and Australia,
both of which have important and complex reef systems.
Leinen is concerned with ocean acidification, one of the
results of CO2 from fossil fuel being released into the atmosphere.
The CO2 dissolves in the ocean and makes it more
acidic, she says. “We know that those changes in the acidity
of the ocean are beginning to have an impact on the reefs
and other organisms that make skeletal material out of chalk >>
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