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The future of our coastal systems

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Graham Worthy |

TEDxOrlando

• June 2017

The US state of Florida is facing down environmental threats that affect millions of people a year, such as toxic algal blooms and hurricanes. The solutions will take Biologist (and Florida resident) Graham Worthy proposes that by breaking down academic silos and engaging interdisciplinary teams, Florida might finally start solving some of its interconnected ecological problems.

The US state of Florida is facing down environmental threats that affect millions of people a year, such as toxic algal blooms and hurricanes. The solutions will take Biologist (and Florida resident) Graham Worthy proposes that by breaking down academic silos and engaging interdisciplinary teams, Florida might finally start solving some of its interconnected ecological problems.

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Graham Worthy

Graham Worthy is a UCF Pegasus Professor, Provosts Distinguished Professor of Biology and the Hubbs-SeaWorld Endowed Professor of Marine Mammalogy. He is also the Chair of the Department of Biology and Director of the Physiological Ecology and Bioenergetics Lab in the Department of Biology. Worthy is also the lead for the Sustainable Coastal Systems cluster and the author of the proposal that was submitted to the Faculty Cluster Initiative program.

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