The Botanical Society of America, the oldest (1893) and largest North American biological society presented Professor Anitra Thorhaug a lifetime achievement award

Nancy Addison — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 19:20:59 +0000

I have a very dear friend, who has worked tirelessly on restoring decimated coastal areas around the world. She is the world’s leading sea grass expert. She raises money to restore damaged coastal areas where dredging, oil companies, boats, pollution, etc. had destroyed the living grasses in the areas. When there are no grasses in a coastal area, there is no or little sea life. When you restore the plants, grasses, life returns and healing of the area begins.For example, the Meadows Foundation was wanting to save and endangered whooping crane. They have partnered up with Dr. Thorhaug to restore the areas where the crane lives. By doing this, the whooping crane will be able to have food, in which it needs to survive. So, if you know of anyone who wants to contribute to the restoration of the oceans and their coastal areas, this is a marvelous, grass roots, place to start!

I am blessed to have her as my friend and so I am sharing this wonderful award with you.

The Award of the Botanical Society of America to Anitra Thorhaug.

for her many varied and substantial

contributions to Botany at the New York Botanical Garden in New

York City. Her marine restoration efforts commencing with Biscayne

Bay, Florida as well as teaching these techniques throughout the

tropical world and including her present restorations in 7 highly

polluted Texas estuaries were highly commended. Also included were

her efforts in forming science-based policy for pollution emissions

such as heat, salinity alterations, oil, dispersed oil, heavy metals

into estuarine and marine environments through both her intensive

laboratory research and working with policy-makers at national and

international levels. Her multicolor light and her membrane research

was stated as being fundamental information to botanical science.

Anitra Thorhaug is presently at Yale School of Forestry, and previously

was at Research Professor at Florida International, at RSMAS and

Microbiology of University of Miami , Visiting Professor at University

of California at Berkeley, and at Weizmann Institute for Science with

Aharon Katchalsky. She is President of Institute for Seagrass, Burton

Texas, and President of Greater Caribbean Energy and Environment.

She has previously won 4 awards from the United Nations for

her work, and an honorary doctorate from Philippines Women’s

University. She has written 12 books and 400 scientific papers and

been consultant to a series of UN agencies ( FAO, World Bank, IMO,

UNESCO, UNEP) as well as foreign and US and state governments on

marine pollution has acted on the board of major scientific societies.

She holds a real estate, a pilots and cave divers license.

Futher information can be reached through A. Thorhaug

– athorhaug@msn.com

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The Botanical Society of America, the oldest (1893) and largest North American biological society presented Professor Anitra Thorhaug a lifetime achievement award