Marine biologist Barbara Block wins Rolex Award for Enterprise

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masslive.com 26 Aug '12, 10pm

Marine biologist Barbara Block wins Rolex Award for Enterprise

You don’t pursue marine biology dreaming of awards and prizes. Barbara A. Block certainly didn’t, but during a nearly 30-year career doing ground-breaking research, the graduate of Springfield’s Classical High School has netted some of the largest prizes that can possibly be reeled in by a scientist – a MacArthur “genius grant” in 1996 and now a Rolex Award for Enterprise. With a monetary value of $104,000, the Rolex prize recognizes her work in trying to preserve predatory marine animals like white sharks and bluefin tuna in the Pacific Ocean. Block tracks their movements with a series of underwater listening stations to better understand their behavior. She says the funds will be used to fund those research efforts. A professor of marine sciences at Stanford University, she is also head of the Tuna Research and Conservation Center on the shores of Monterey Bay. “When lar...

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