September 13, 2011
Mother Jones
Scientist Profiled in MoJo Ocean Articles Wins Heinz Award
By Julia Whitty (Blue Marble blog)
I was pleased to learn this morning that Nancy Rabalais, executive director of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) in Chauvin, Louisiana, is one of eight winners of the 17th annual Heinz Awards. Twice I've been drawn into Nancy's extraordinary orbit to cover stories—once in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita to report on her dead zone work (The Fate of the Ocean), then again last year after 'Hurricane BP' to cover her work in the aftermath of a catastrophic oil spill ...
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