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2 UT Austin Faculty Members Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Jonathan Sessler and Anthony Di Fiore have been elected members of the National Academy of Sciences.
AUSTIN, Texas Chemist Jonathan L. Sessler and anthropologist Anthony Di Fiore of The University of Texas at Austin have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The academy is the country’s most prestigious scientific organization, and election to it is one of the highest honors for American researchers.
The two are among 120 new national inductees announced this week in recognition of distinguished and continuing achievements in original scientific research.
Dolphin Populations At-Risk Trans-Tasman Study Calls for Greater Collaboration
Written by AZoCleantechMar 4 2021
While consumers look out for the Dolphin Safe mark on seafood purchases, a major research stocktake of Australian-New Zealand waters gives new guidelines to managers of dolphin fisheries.
Image Credit: Flinders University
The extensive new genomic study of almost 500 common dolphins (
Delphinus delphis), spanning multiple spatial areas of more than 1500 sq km from the southern and east coast of Australia to Tasmania and New Zealand, calls for greater collaboration between the two countries’ conservation and fisheries plans.
Just published in
Frontiers in Marine Science, the study of DNA diversity of several dolphin populations in Australia and NZ suggests connectivity between several populations of common dolphins across the Tasman Sea.