Marine scientists are meeting with the 72-nation Group on Earth Observations (GEO) in Cape Town, South Africa this week, asking for $2-3 billion to study the threats of climate change and overfishing of the world’s oceans. Attending will be representatives from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego.
I had the privilege of interviewing Dr. A.D.J. “Tony” Haymet, Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences, Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Dean of the Graduate School of Marine Sciences, UC San Diego on the eve of the meeting, and we talked about the reasons for the request.
That interview is available here on Planetsave’s Podcast site.
- If you’d like to know more about the ARGO program Dr. Haymet explains in the interview, you can go here…
- To learn more about the Group on Earth Observations, this is their website.
- Dr. Haymet is also chairman of the Partnership for Observation of Global Oceans (POGO). Their website is here.
- And of course, there’s the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography News Page. - If you’d like to know more about Dr. Haymet, his Biography is here…
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Max Lindberg
My home state is Illinois, and my hometown a little railroad/farming community named Galesburg.We lived on a small farm during my high school years and I became very aware of nature and it's wonders. I loved the out of doors, working with animals, plowing fields and harvesting crops. Those were very good years.After a stint in the Army during the Korean war my broadcasting career took off at the local radio station, a 250 watt "teapot" as it was called in those days. My first job was as an engineer, then the ham came out and I became an announcer/newsman, graduating after several years to a larger market and a stint as a TV journalist/photographer. Cold, wet weather led me to the southwest where I've lived for most of the last 40 years, with a couple of years out to have fun working as a private investigator in San Francisco, and a few years working in Las Vegas hotels and casinos. In all, its been a real ride.After retiring a few years back I became fascinated with the efforts being made to find alternative energy sources. I've watched our environment deteriorate during my lifetime, and now it's my chance to join the chorus of intelligent and caring individuals making a difference one day at a time.
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