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The 1998-99 awardsSecond-round winners |
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new Awards were made in 1998-99. They celebrated the work of six biodiversity
advocates and researchers in the United States and abroad. Marilyn J. Roossinck studies some of biodiversity's smallest and most elusive constituents — viruses. Timothy J. Killeen roams the broad laboratory that stretches from the Bolivian Andes to lower Amazonia. Susan Middleton and David Liittschwager are photographers whose meticulous work brings biodiversity to a world that is hungry for knowledge. Karen R. Lips searches for the cause — or, she thinks, more likely the causes — of a mysterious global die-off among frogs and other amphibians. F.P.D. Cotterill, known to his vast network of friends and colleagues as Woody, plunges into biodiversity in all its splendor and complexity in southern Africa. Click on each name above to learn more about the winners and their work. ¤ The winners personify the goals of the Bay Biodiversity Leadership Awards. And they do so at a time when, more than ever before, the importance and value of biological diversity must be understood by the public and the policy makers. If biodiversity is to be saved, it will be through the work of people like these and the inspiration they provide for others. ¤ |
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