Scripps Oceanography and Nierenberg family honour Daniel Pauly

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California (UC) San Diego and the William Nierenberg family will present the 2012 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest to UBC Prof. Daniel Pauly on May 9 at the UC San Diego campus.

Pauly is the principal investigator at the Sea Around Us Project based at the Fisheries Centre at UBC and has been a leader in conceptualizing and co-developing software that is used by ocean experts globally.

Pauly will give a talk at the award presentation titled “Jellyfish Burgers, or How We Changed the Oceans and They Changed Us.”

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