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Coral Reef Project's Fact Sheet Wins 2003 Shoemaker Award
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Coral reef: This photograph of a coral reef in Florida appears on the first page of the award-winning USGS Fact Sheet 025-02, "U.S. Coral Reefs—Imperiled National Treasures." (Photograph copyright © Sandra Edwards, used with permission.)
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A U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Fact Sheet entitled "U.S. Coral Reefs—Imperiled National Treasures" has won the USGS' 2003 Shoemaker Award for Communication Product Excellence in the print category.
This 4-page fact sheet was created by the Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP)'s Coral Reef
Project and the USGS Western Publications Group (WPG). With a format that is both informative and visually appealing, the fact sheet outlines coral-reef formation and distribution and describes various threats to coral-reef health in U.S. waters.
Since they were first awarded in 1997, the Shoemaker Awards for Communication Product Excellence have been used to recognize USGS products that "demonstrate extraordinary effectiveness in communicating and translating complex scientific concepts and discoveries into words and pictures that capture the interest and imagination of the American public."
Congratulations to current and former CMGP members Susan Cochran-Marquez, Michael Field, and Kevin Evans, and to Western Publications Group members James Hendley II, Peter H. Stauffer, Susan Mayfield, Sara Boore, and Jane Ciener for their part in creating an outstanding publication.
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October 2003
in this issue:
cover story:
North Pacific Marine Mammal Populations Collapsing
Puerto Rico Trench Mapping
Water Beneath Chincoteague Bay, MD
Map-Librarians Meeting
Coral Reef Fact Sheet
Pacific Science Center Staff
New Research Assistant
New Administrative Assistant
October Publications List
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