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February 17, 2020 | Climate Change

Nereus Program’s Becca Selden (Wellesley College) recently appeared on Your Call’s One Planet Series, for the episode ‘One Planet: The World’s Oceans Hit Record Temperatures in 2019.’ She and John Abraham (University of St. Thomas School of Engineering) appear as guests and discuss the influence climate change is having on the rate of ocean warming and what the impacts are for marine ecosystems (such as coral reefs) and equity among societies and the rest of the world.

You can listen to the full conversation here.

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