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Who is Brazil's Most Creative Person in Business? - Forbes
Who is the most creative Brazilian in business? Many will argue that professional football has become big business and therefore Neymar , young footballer from Santos FC called the New Pelé by the NYT, should be the right answer. Others will claim it must be Brazil’s most famous entrepreneur Eike Batista , the seventh richest man on earth. However, the right answer is much more exotic than a footballer or an entrepreneur.
Welcome to OBIS! | OBIS
With our evolving OBIS database repository, users can identify biodiversity hotspots and large-scale ecological patterns, analyze dispersions of species over time and space, and plot species' locations with temperature, salinity, and depth.
Census of Marine Life
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Successful distributed grad learning model used in new field of landscape genetics Scientists explore risks of non-intervention for infectious disease in apes Global experts question claims about jellyfish populations News Archive Follow NCEAS on
CCRI Website, Puerto Rico
The Caribbean Coral Reef Institute (CCRI) is a cooperative program between the University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez (UPRM) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The Institute sponsor's scientific research and monitoring programs that address short and long-term management-driven priorities for the understanding and managing of the coral reef ecosystem of the US Caribbean. These activities address the major threats to coral reefs within an ecosystem context, including human socio-economic dimensions, and enhance our understanding of the biological and physical processes that structure coral reefs and impact the health of the ecosystem. Through its sponsored programs and partnerships, CCRI aims to build research and management capacity in order to fully utilize the scientific expertise of the region in promoting both sustainable ecosystems and the services they provide.
ISRS, International Society for Reef Studies
View the ISRS Constitution Coral reefs throughout the world are currently facing significant pressures from global climate change and direct anthropogenic stresses (including overfishing and sedimentation). Managers (industry, government, NGOs etc) are typically making difficult decisions in relation to these issues often without adequate scientific information.
