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Lindstedt
joins Gulf of Mexico Alliance
July
31, 2008
Dianne
Lindstedt has been selected to serve as a Louisiana Representative
on the Environmental Education Priority Issue Team of The Gulf
of Mexico Alliance (GOMA).
Lindstedt
is Louisiana Sea Grant’s education coordinator, a post she
has held since September 2003.
GOMA is a
partnership among Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and
Texas that collaborates at the local, state and federal levels
to enhance the ecological and economic health of the Gulf of Mexico.
It was initiated in 2004 with the goal of addressing Gulf issues
and management on a regional scale rather than state by state.
Environmental Education is one of the group’s six priority
areas, which also include Water Quality for Healthy Beaches and
Shellfish Beds, Wetland and Coastal Conservation and Restoration,
Identification and Characterization of Gulf Habitats, Reducing
Nutrient Inputs to Coastal Ecosystems, and Coastal Community Resiliency.
“GOMA
is a good opportunity for Sea Grant to increase its collaboration
across the Gulf in marine education issues,” Lindstedt said.
“The primary goal of this group is to increase awareness
of the importance of Gulf of Mexico resources. I’m looking
forward to working with the great group of people from across
the Gulf who are focusing on educating and engaging our youth
and other citizens.”
Since its
establishment in 1968, LSGCP has worked to promote stewardship
of the state’s coastal resources through a combination of
research, education and outreach programs critical to the cultural,
economic and environmental health of Louisiana’s coastal
zone. Louisiana Sea Grant, based at Louisiana State University,
is part of the National Sea Grant College Program, a network of
32 programs in each of the U.S. coastal and Great Lakes states
and Puerto Rico.
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