Mote coral scientist honored with Parker/Gentry Award from Chicago’s Field Museum
Monday evening, April 24, The Field Museum in Chicago presented Dr. David E. Vaughan with the prestigious 2017 Parker/Gentry Award, which has been given annually since 1996 to an individual, team or organization whose work has made a significant impact on conservation and serves as a model for others.
Vaughan is the Executive Director of Mote Marine Laboratory’s campus in the Florida Keys, leading Mote's Coral Reef Restoration Program to restore the underwater forest.
Vaughan and colleagues from Mote’s Coral Reef Monitoring & Assessment Program have collectively restored more than 20,000 corals onto depleted reefs in the Florida Keys. Their research and restoration efforts are poised to expand with the spring 2017 opening of a new International Center for Coral Reef Research & Restoration on Mote’s Summerland Key Campus.