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Awakening Citizen Award 2008
by Hank Stewart on March 5th, 2008
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New York, 02.28.2008
Green Team, the advertising and communications agency focused on reaching and influencing the Awakening Consumer, today awarded its first Awakening Citizen Award to Mary Hagedorn, Ph. D., the Smithsonian’s National Zoo scientist whose research is helping to preserve coral around the world.
Hagedorn is regarded as the world's leading expert in aquatic cryobiology and the application of human fertility techniques to help preserve threatened coral. Since 2004, she has been working to create a genetic bank of thousands of coral species.
Beginning with this inaugural award, Green Team will each year honor individual citizens who seek ways to better the environment and society through research and activism. Winners of the Awakening Citizen award will be those who have created innovative solutions that advance society and the environment in a real, measurable and impacting way.“The world needs role models and people who are driven by their passions to make a difference in the world,” said Hugh Hough, President and founder of Green Team. “Mary Hagedorn is just such a person. She has dedicated her life’s work to preserving a vital part of our ecosystem, and she has served as a positive influence for other individuals who believe they can change the world. I can think of no more appropriate recipient of the first annual Awakening Citizen Award than Mary Hagedorn.”
Hagedorn was presented with the award at a Green Team event in New York City. Dr. Mary Hagedorn, a Smithsonian scientist since 1993, is regarded as the world's leading expert in aquatic cryobiology and the application of human fertility techniques to help preserve threatened coral. In 2000, she received the prestigious George E. Burch Fellowship in Theoretic Medicine and Affiliated Theoretic Sciences, and in 2005 was nominated as a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation. From her laboratory at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology on Coconut Island, Oahu, she is working non-stop to understand the science needed to cryopreserve the eggs, sperm, larvae and tissue of coral.Her vision is to develop a world-class frozen repository for preserving all coral species. These frozen genetic time capsules will act as an insurance policy for coral in the future. If coral reefs were severely damaged, the cryopreserved genetic material could be used to increase genetic diversity and in theory could be used to reseed the oceans.
For more information on the Awakening Citizen Awards and Green Team please contact Greg Kalish at 646-290-8840 or gkalish@gkcomms.com
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