Photo by Dennis Allen
Tony Bartelme is senior projects reporter for The Post and
Courier. A three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, he also is the
author of A Surgeon in the Village: A Doctor Teaches Brain
Surgery in Africa, which will be published next year by
Beacon Press. He is a graduate of Northwestern University
and is a former Harvard University Nieman Fellow. He lives
in Charleston with his partner, Annie Duryee, and son, Luke.
Photo by Annie Duryee
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Dennis Allen is a research professor in the Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine
and Coastal Sciences at the University of South Carolina. He has spent most of the
past 37 years studying the North Inlet as a scientist, nature observer, and angler. Dr.
Allen and his students and technical staff have an active field research program that
focuses on the behavioral ecology of estuarine zooplankton and nekton, the nursery
function of shallow coastal habitats, and how animal populations and habitats
are affected by changing climate. Many of these studies have been funded by the
National Science Foundation and NOAA and the results have been published in
peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Photo by Eric Haffey
Christen Sardet is a founder of the Laboratory of Cell
Biology at the Marine Station of Villefranche-sur-Mer,
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and
Paris University, emeritus research director at the CNRS,
and author of numerous scientific publications. His awardwinning, beautifully illustrated book, Plankton: Wonders
of the Drifting World is available from Amazon. He is a
co-founder and coordinator of Tara Oceans expedition,
devoted to a global study of plankton in all the oceans
of the world. See his Plankton Chronicles project at
www.planktonchronicles.org that combines science and
art to convey the diversity and beauty of plankton.
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