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[PAST EVENT] VIMS Welcomes Dr. Libby Jewett, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Location
VIMS - Administration Building (Eastern Shore Laboratory)40 Atlantic Avenue
Wachapreague, VA 23480Map this location
Dr. Jewett, is a NOAA scientist with diverse science and management experience in ocean acidification and coastal hypoxia (low oxygen) research programs, and the first director of NOAA?s Ocean Acidification Program.
Jewett has led the nation?s only two national hypoxia research funding programs as Hypoxia Research Program manager at the Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research in NOAA?s National Ocean Service. In this role, she has strived to make the funded science relevant to the management of coastal ecosystems, especially in the Chesapeake Bay and northern Gulf of Mexico. At the same time, she has taken leadership roles in NOAA-wide and interagency organizations focused on ocean acidification and its effect on ecosystems.
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