Sailors for the Sea advisor to head NOAA

8:45 PM Wed 28 Jan 2009 GMT

'Dr Jane Lubchenco' .

Sailors for the Sea - that not-for-profit organisation that educates and empowers the boating community to protect and restore oceans and coastal waters - has scored its own political coup in the appointment of a member of its advisory committee to head NOAA (National Oceanographic and Atmosphere Administration)

Dr Jane Lubchenco had demonstrated her commitment to remedy the troubles of the oceans of the world, to solve the challenges of acidification, pollutants and the serious decline in fish stocks.

In addition to serving on the Pew Oceans Commission and the US Commission on Ocean Policy, Dr. Lubchenco was a member of the Sailors for the Sea Science Advisory Committee. A longtime professor of Marine Biology at Oregon State University, Dr. Lubchenco joined the Sailors for the Sea Science Advisory Committee in 2007 to consult on the scientific validity of the Around the Americas project and its associated experiments.

This project, a circumnavigation by sailboat of North and South America, is designed to focus international attention on ocean health through scientific observation and evaluation of the ocean environment and providing a platform for scientists and educators to communicate the urgency of the issues to the broader public.

For Sailors for the Sea 2009 is shaping up to be an interesting year with many achievements among the great challenges. There will be the world premiere of the film, A Sea Change, the launch of the Around the America's expedition, and the commitment from leading regattas such St. Marteen and the British Virgin Islands Spring Regatta to join the Clean Regattas program.

To find more information about Sailors for the Sea, or, better still, to join this worthy sailors' organisation, and be part of the solution rather than part of the problem, go to their website

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