CONSERVATION NEWS
News, views and features from the front lines of conservation
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Meet a scientist: a species-discovering savant
By Kiley Price
March 25, 2020
Conservation News spoke with Conservation International's Mark Erdmann about his job as a marine biologist, where he spends almost as much time underwater discovering new species as he does helping communities above ground conserve them.
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Update: What we’re learning about the world’s largest fish
By Mark Erdmann, Ph.D.
August 1, 2017
Two years into a whale shark tracking program, scientists are learning new facts about the world’s largest fish.
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