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Acknowledgments
This Practitioner’s Guide was developed out of a workshop held
at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and
Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) in April 2011. The authors would
like to acknowledge the participants for their contributions in that
workshop, as well as comments on the early drafts of this guide:
Amanda Wrona Meadows, Robert Brumbaugh and Sean Griffin.
Additional thanks go to the case study authors: Paul A. Anderson,
Ilse K. Berzins, Austin Bowden-Kerby, Victor Galvan, Miguel A.
Garcia-Salgado, Jaime Gonzalez-Cano, Jeffrey S. Graves, Sean
Griffin, Juan Carlos Huitrón- Baca, Jake Kheel, Claudia LeClercq,
Israel Lopez-Huerta, Allan L. Marshall, Tom Moore, Alison
L. Moulding, Gabriela G. Nava-Martinez, Marcos A. Rangel-
Avalos, Miguel A. Roman-Vives, Andrew Ross, Alejandro Vega
Zepeda. In addition, Kemit Amon-Lewis provided photos and
Chelsey Young-Lahiff provided the information collected for the
Acropora enhancement project map. We are grateful for everyone’s
contribution to this guide and to the field of Acropora restoration.
Production of this guide was supported by the National
Partnership between The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the
National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration Community-
Based Restoration Program, Counterpart International and The
Turner Foundation, Inc. It was also supported by TNC and the
NOAA Restoration Center, U.S. Department of Commerce,
with funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act (Award #NA09NFF4630332). The statements, findings,
conclusions and recommendations are those of the authors and do
not necessarily reflect the views of TNC, the NOAA Restoration
Center or the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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