Anson “Tuck” Hines is director of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md. SERC is a global leader for research focused on connections among ecosystems in the coastal zone. Hines oversees a diverse staff of 17 senior scientists and an interdisciplinary team of more than 180 researchers, technicians and students who conduct long-term descriptive and experimental research on global change, landscape ecology, ecosystems in coastal regions, and population and community ecology.
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