Ocean Leadership Weekly Newsletter - week of April 28, 2008
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Site Spotlight | Feature StoryOcean Leadership Selects New Board TrusteesThe Consortium for Ocean Leadership is pleased to announce the additions of three prominent members to our Board of Trustees. The Honorable Leon E. Panetta, Dr. Robert W. Corell, and Mr. Frank M. Cushing will serve as At-Large Trustees to the Board of Directors. They were officially sworn in at the Ocean Leadership May Board Meeting today in ![]() Massachusetts High School Team Wins National CompetitionLincoln-Sudbury High School wins NOSB Finals in AlaskaThe top eight teams were: In The News![]() Students Compete in the National Ocean Sciences Bowl in AlaskaWASHINGTON - The 11th Annual National Ocean Sciences Bowl (NOSB®) is being held April 25-27th at Seward High School in Seward, Alaska. High School students from all over the United States will compete in the NOSB Final Competition with prizes and scholarships on the line. The NOSB is a program of the Consortium for Ocean Leadership based in Washington, DC. In February the NOSB hosted regional competitions around the nation at twenty five different sites, where teams competed over their knowledge of our oceans. The regional champions with four or five students on each team will participate in the 2008 NOSB with a chance to take home the top prize and become this year’s national champion. ![]() Geologists Discover New Way of Estimating Size and Frequency of Meteorite ImpactsScientists have developed a new way of determining the size and frequency of meteorites that have collided with Earth. Their work shows that the size of the meteorite that likely plummeted to Earth at the time of the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary 65 million years ago was four to six kilometers in diameter. The meteorite was the trigger, scientists believe, for the mass extinction of dinosaurs and other life forms. | Calendar & Events
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