Updated Biography about Professor Anitra Thorhaug (1987 Laureate)

Professor Thorhaug has influenced protection of marine and coastal shallow-water habitats in the American Hemisphere, Asia, Africa and the Island nations. She is a scientist and advocate for restoring the earth, who has elucidated (through scientific experimentation-- field &laboratory) toxic levels of pollutants and helped nations around the world set
scientific standards to eliminate a series of pollutants. She invented the first large-scale seagrass restoration in the early 1970’s to combat habitat pollution effects. Having organized the first saltwater Bay restoration effort in the world for Biscayne Bay, she taught the methods to many nations as well the coastal zone management principals of restoration. She taught science, policy, long-term planning and advocacy of coastal protection of living resources to nations in Africa, America Hemisphere, Asia, & the Pacific. Her academic career includes faculty positions in leading Universities in the USA (Berkeley, Yale, University Miami, Florida International University). Currently, she is researching remote sensing of coastal tropical pollution at Yale, and serves as Chair of Physiology of American. Botanical Society, President of USA Club of Rome, and a member of the International Club of Rome. She is author of 10 scientific books plus hundreds of scientific papers. She has led scientific exchange delegations to Asia, Africa, and USSR. Her work organizing cutting-edge symposia for the American Botanical Society, and USA Club of Rome, has focused attention on series of critical issues: for example, on thermal and salinity pollution, heavy metals & radioactivity contamination, oil spill clean-up, pollution in specific nations, and recently on “The Future of the American Hemisphere”. Her consulting career includes United Nations Agencies (UNEP, FAO, IOC, UNDP),many national governments and industry, where she was influential in alleviating pollution as well as protecting and restoring near-shore resources.

For more information contact Professor Thorhaug at Anitra Thorhaug
<athorhaug@msn.com>