Some very good news came in today that requires an update to a previous Tidal Life post. Jan Holmes, she of the tireless intertidal monitoring and eelgrass research, has been selected the 2010 Cox Conserves Hero for Western Washington. With the award comes a $5,000 donation to the non-profit of her choice. In a not too [...]
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Cox Conserves knows how to pick a Hero
Posted by nancy on September 21, 2010 at 8:23 pm.
Jan Holmes, one of my cohorts on the Eelgrass Videography project, has been nominated for a Cox Conserves Heroes award. I wrote about Jan’s indefatigable quest for data back in late December of 2009 when she dragged her husband Steve and I out on the mudflats in the middle of the night to collect eelgrass [...]
