The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has donated $25 million to create a center in Monterey dedicated to protecting the world's oceans, officials announced today.Called the Center for Ocean Solutions, it will be run by Stanford University, the Monterey Bay Aquarium and their nearby research institutions. Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station at Cannery Row is the oldest marine research lab on the West Coast, and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, or MBARI, is located in Moss Landing.
The center will provide a forum where international marine scholars can develop solutions to critical threats to the oceans, Stanford University President John Hennessy said.
Some of the threats listed by the foundation are overfishing, water pollution from coastal runoff and climate change - a driver of ocean acidification and coral reef destruction.
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