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Feature Story

Ocean Leadership Selects New Board Trustees

The 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 Washington, DC.

For complete bios please click on each name below.  To view Ocean Leadership's press release click here.

Honorable Leon E. Panetta



Massachusetts High School Team Wins National Competition

Lincoln-Sudbury High School wins NOSB Finals in Alaska

The top eight teams were:
8th Place - East Carteret High School – Beaufort, NC
7th Place - Poudre High School – Ft. Collins, CO
6th Place - ExCEL Academic League – Vancouver, WA
5th Place - La Jolla High School – San Diego, CA
4th Place - Dexter High School – Dexter, MI
3rd Place - Santa Monica High School – Santa Monica, CA
2nd Place - Mission San Jose High School – Fremont, CA
1st Place - Lincoln-Sudbury High School – Sudbury, MA



In The News

Students Compete in the National Ocean Sciences Bowl in Alaska

WASHINGTON - 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 Impacts

Scientists 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.