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What is your name?: Jackie Marks

What is your job title?: Media and Communications Manager

What organisation do you work for?: SeaWeb

Website: www.seaweb.org

What aspects of biodiversity are you most interested in?: Climate change, Ecosystem services, Education, Endangered species, Oceans, Protected areas, Traditional knowledge, Urban biodiversity, Wetlands

What languages do you speak?: English, Dutch, Spanish

Please use this section to introduce yourself in more detail, adding any other relevant information not included in your previous answers. The site administrator will use this answer to decide whether to approve your membership: Jackie Marks joined SeaWeb in its Silver Spring, Maryland, office in August 2009. Working closely with communications, policy and industry leaders, Jackie manages SeaWeb’s Too Precious to Wear campaign which strives to create a demand for coral conservation. Jackie also provides communications support across the organization and serves as lead media liaison for SeaWeb, working with journalists to promote a healthy ocean.

Before joining SeaWeb, Jackie provided communications and public relations support for the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. She received a bachelor's degree in environmental studies from Pace University in New York, and a dual master's degree in natural resources and sustainable development from American University in Washington, D.C., and the University for Peace in Costa Rica.

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International Coral Reef Symposium - Daily Media Briefings

Hello all -

The International Coral Reef Symposium will be taking place in Cairns, Australia, July 9 - 13. Members of the media are still welcomed to register free of charge through Friday, June 29. If you're unable to join us but interested in the proceedings, we'll have lots of media resources for you on our soon to be launched media portal. In the mean time, visit http://www.icrs2012.com/Media.htm for more info. Don't forget…