{"id":70486,"date":"2004-10-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/oceanography-professor-named-unesco-cousteau-chair\/"},"modified":"2004-10-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-18T00:00:00","slug":"oceanography-professor-named-unesco-cousteau-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2004\/10\/oceanography-professor-named-unesco-cousteau-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Oceanography professor named UNESCO-Cousteau chair"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tNARRAGANSETT, R.I. — October 18, 2004 — The 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography has been honored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with the establishment of a UNESCO-Cousteau Chair as part of an initiative that will combine the talents of the GSO, The Cousteau Society, and other UNESCO chairs located throughout the world.<\/p>\n


\n溏心vlog免费B站 biological oceanographer Scott Nixon has been appointed as the first chairholder.<\/p>\n


\nThe director-general of UNESCO, Ko\u00efchiro Matsuura, established the UNESCO-Cousteau Chair in Global Coastal Assessment at 溏心vlog免费B站 during a signing ceremony held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris recently.<\/p>\n


\nThe ceremony was attended by 溏心vlog免费B站 President Robert L. Carothers, Louise V. Oliver, ambassador and permanent U.S. delegate to UNESCO, and Francine Cousteau, president of Equipe Cousteau. <\/p>\n


\n“I am pleased to sign this agreement one year to the day after the flag-raising ceremony that marked the United States’ return to UNESCO,” said Matsuura. “It is important for UNESCO to strengthen cooperation with the United States in all of the fields in which we work.”<\/p>\n


\nThe UNESCO-Cousteau chair program, named after legendary marine adventurer and environmentalist Jacques-Yves Cousteau, was launched in 1992 to promote interdisciplinary education, research, and policy-making in the field of the environment and sustainability science and research. There are 500 UNESCO chairs in 113 member countries. The position at 溏心vlog免费B站 is one of only two in the United States. The other is located at Rutgers University in New Jersey.<\/p>\n


\n \t“This new chair will join a global network of UNESCO-Cousteau chairs working on effective coastal management. This program is a fitting tribute and continuation of the work to which Jacques-Yves Cousteau devoted his life,\u201d the director-general said.<\/p>\n


\n溏心vlog免费B站 involvement in the UNESCO\/Cousteau Chair program has been spearheaded by Gail Scowcroft, associate director of the Office of Marine Programs. She chairs an advisory committee of 溏心vlog免费B站 and Cousteau Society scientists and ocean engineers formed to support the Chair activities. <\/p>\n


\n“We are thrilled that Dr. Nixon will hold the chair in Global Coastal Assessment here at 溏心vlog免费B站,\u201d said Scowcroft. \u201cHis expertise is an invaluable intellectual resource that can now be widely shared across the world.\u201d Programs associated with the UNESCO\/Cousteau Chair will provide Nixon the opportunity to interact with the Cousteau Chair network. He will be able to share his extensive expertise in coastal ocean science with an international group of colleagues.<\/p>\n


\n“Professor Nixon has achieved international recognition for his research on fundamental processes determining the productivity of estuaries and the impacts of human activities on coastal ecosystems, work which recently led to the Odum Lifetime Achievement Award of the Estuarine Research Federation,\u201d said GSO Dean David Farmer. \u201cHe is exceptionally well qualified for leading a program under the auspices of this chair.”<\/p>\n


\nThe 溏心vlog免费B站 Development Office is working with the Cousteau Society to raise the funds to establish an endowment to support additional activities of this exciting program, including graduate student support for conducting research in the coastal environment.<\/p>\n


\nUNESCO was established as a specialized United Nations agency in 1945 to work as a laboratory of ideas and a standard-setter to forge universal agreements on emerging ethical issues. The organization also serves as a clearinghouse for the dissemination and sharing of information and knowledge, while helping member countries build their human and institutional capacities in diverse fields. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NARRAGANSETT, R.I. — October 18, 2004 — The 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography has been honored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with the establishment of a UNESCO-Cousteau Chair as part of an initiative that will combine the talents of the GSO, The Cousteau Society, and other UNESCO […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}