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About Me

Kristen Marhaver is a Caribbean coral biologist studying the needs, desires, and talents of coral larvae, i.e., the coral reefs of the future. Kristen is also working to increase the power of scientific information in society by rethinking how scientists publish and organize their knowledge in the Age of Google.

Location:
Netherlands Antilles, Willemstad, Curacao
Current organization:
CARMABI Foundation
Past organizations:
UC Merced
Current role:
Coral Biologist
Gender:
Female
Areas of expertise:
Coral Biology, Science Communication, Marine Conservation
I am:
Artist, Brainstormer, Photographer, Scientist
Languages:
English, Spanish
My website links:
TechTalks@Google, Some tiny underwater photos, TED Fellows Profile
Universities:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography PhD, Georgia Institute of Techology BSci, UC Merced
TED conferences attended:
TEDGlobal 2012
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I'm passionate about

making science matter in decision-making, understanding how corals work, win-win conservation scenarios, diversity above and below water, observing the art that nature creates

Talk to me about

technology, coral reefs, languages, painters, (bio)diversity, the Caribbean, a coral reef you can help us protect

People don't know that I'm good at

the 100 m hurdles!

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    A comment on Conversation: The debate about Graham Hancock's talk

    Mar 20 2013: My own diagnosis here is that TED ended up in an awkward (unwinnable?) position because Hancock's talk is part passionate anecdote, part testable scientific hypothesis, and part supernatural, but all related to a schedule 1 controlled substance.

    Had the speaker been an academic discussing environmental degradation as a symptom of our non-creativity, the loss of dreamers in our society, and research on the psychological benefits of serotonin receptor agonists such as DMT, I think the talk would have faced little resistance from TED. But TED specifically disallows anecdotes about alternative medicine 'cures.' And supernatural contact through illicit substance use is just not a topic in TED's purview.

    TED is a curator, and whether we agree with TED's actions or not, hopefully we can accept that this talk was particularly difficult for them to field.

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