page_title: Ruth Gates
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caption_attribution_description: English: Turning Coral Reef Science into Action What will it take to save our coral reefs? How are we going to turn cutting edge science into policy? Who needs to be involved&#160;? And how will we do it? Dr. Ruth Gates discusses progress from the 13th International Coral Reef Symposium held in Honolulu in June and expectations for the World Conservation Congress starting on September 1st. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm every weekday afternoon, Hawaii Time, then streaming earlier shows through the night.
context_page_description: Ruth Deborah Gates was the Director of the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology and the first woman to be President of the International Society for Reef Studies. Her research was dedicated to understanding coral reef ecosystems, specifically coral-algal symbiosis and the capacity for corals to acclimatize under future climate change conditions. Doctor Gates is most accredited with looking at coral biology and human-assisted coral evolution, known as super corals, as notably seen in the documentary Chasing Coral, available on Netflix.
context_section_description: Ruth Deborah Gates (March 28, 1962 – October 25, 2018) was the Director of the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology and the first woman to be President of the International Society for Reef Studies. Her research was dedicated to understanding coral reef ecosystems, specifically coral-algal symbiosis and the capacity for corals to acclimatize under future climate change conditions. Doctor Gates is most accredited with looking at coral biology and human-assisted coral evolution, known as super corals, as notably seen in the documentary Chasing Coral, available on Netflix.
caption: Ruth Gates discusses coral reef science on ThinkTech Hawaii in 2016
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