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Future
Leaders To Help Rebuild Coastal Communities
August
4, 2008
Forty-eight
future leaders and policy makers from across the country will
help restore wetlands on Grand Isle and help rebuild New Orleans
this August. The group’s members are the 2008 John A. Knauss
Marine Policy Fellows and come from nearly every coastal state.
During their fellowship year, they work in a legislative or executive
branch office in Washington, D.C.
The Knauss
Fellows will visit New Orleans and Grand Isle Aug. 9-17. During
their trip, they will meet with officials from the Barataria Terrebonne
National Estuary Preserve, tour the Louisiana Sea Grant Oyster
Hatchery and participate in research and coastal management workshops,
among other activities.
On Tuesday,
Aug. 12, from 8-10 a.m., the group will plant oyster grass and
mangrove trees on Grand Isle to help with a wetland restoration
project. Wetlands have a high ecological value as well as reduce
hurricane storm surge.
On Saturday,
Aug. 16, from 7:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., the Knauss Fellows will
help Phoenix of New Orleans in rebuilding a home devastated by
Hurricane Katrina.
Members of
the media are welcome to cover both the Grand Isle and Phoenix
projects and conduct interviews. Contact Miguel Lugo at 202-276-2548
or Roy Kron at 817-691-9026 or for more information.
The Dean John
A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship, administered by the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National
Sea Grant College Program, is designed for students interested
in marine and coastal issues and enrolled in a master’s,
doctoral or professional graduate degree program. It provides
an opportunity for a unique one-year experience in the legislative
or executive branch of the federal government in Washington, D.C.
During that year, the recipients work on substantive national
policy issues related to aquatic resources. Many fellowship recipients
go on to careers involving marine and coastal policy making.
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