December 19, 2010
Nature
Newsmaker of the year: In the eye of the storm
By Richard Monastersky
Jane Lubchenco smiles as a dolphin leaps out of the water, arcs in the air and splashes back down just a few metres away. The 63-year-old marine ecologist is out on a boat near Pascagoula, Mississippi, with a team of researchers studying how the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has affected dolphin communities there.
On this October day, Lubchenco wears starfish-shaped earrings and a cap emblazoned with the letters ‘NOAA’, for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration....
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