Dr. Anitra Thorhaug working with Sea Grasses at Long Island

Nancy Addison has just been named Associate Program Director for the non-profit Greater Caribbean Energy and Environment Foundation of Texas

Nancy donates a good deal of time to charity work. One of Nancy Addison’s passions is saving the environment.

Nancy has just been named Associate Program Director for the non -profit Greater Caribbean Energy and Environment Foundation of Texas. Nancy is helping to implement educational programs in schools that teach about environmental sustainability of the oceans, plant and fish life ecosystems.  Nancy is helping to raise money for restoring the coastal areas of the world. The group is starting with Texas coasts. The no-profit’s President, Dr. Anitra Thorhaug, who teaches at Yale University, is known to be the greatest sea grass expert today. She  has implemented the most successful sea grass restoration /gardening work to date. Nancy wants to help save the oceans. They are in such a decimated condition.These grass restoration projects will help with the global climate by taking carbon out of the air.  Contact Nancy if you are interested in working or helping with this project.

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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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