Nancy Klingener Joins The Center For Marine Conservation

The Ocean Conservancy
Tuesday, 1 May 2001

Klingener will lead the Florida Keys, FL office as Program Manager

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Center for Marine Conservation (CMC) announced today the selection of Nancy Klingener as the new Program Manager of its Florida Keys field office. A long time Keys resident, Klingener comes to CMC with an extensive knowledge of the Florida Keys and its environmental issues.

Before joining CMC, Klingener worked for a year and a half as a freelance writer, writing articles for magazines such as Audubon and newspapers including the Washington Post. In that time she also taught journalism at Florida Keys Community College. Previously, Klingener spent ten years writing for the Miami Herald, more than eight years of which in the Florida Keys bureau. While at the Herald, Klingener covered many environmental issues including the approval and implementation of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary management plan, the Tortugas Ecological Reserve plan, and water quality issues in the Keys.

"It's an honor to join CMC, which has distinguished itself with its work on behalf of marine wildlife around the country, and especially in Florida and the Keys," said Klingener. "I've lived in the Keys for ten years and have seen how important our marine life is to all of us, those of us fortunate enough to live here and those millions of people who come here to visit."

CMC has worked to protect the fragile Florida Keys marine ecosystems for 15 years. With Klingener, CMC will focus on the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary five-year review and renewal of its management plan. Klingener also will work to ensure that appropriate resources are allocated to carryout monitoring and enforcement of the Tortugas Ecological Reserve. "Nancy brings a great wealth of knowledge and a pro-active approach to the important issues in the Florida Keys," said David White, Director of CMC's Florida Regional Office. "She is very well known and highly regarded throughout the Keys."

Klingener graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst before moving to the Keys in 1989. She is a member of Paradise Paddlers and the Society of Environmental Journalists, and volunteers her time to the Monroe Association for Retarded Citizens. Klingener was also named the Last Stand environmental journalist of the year in 1999.

Through science-based advocacy, research, and public education, the Center for Marine Conservation informs, inspires, and empowers people to speak and act for the oceans in order to protect ocean ecosystems and conserve the global abundance and diversity of marine wildlife. Headquartered in Washington, DC, CMC has regional offices in Alaska, California, Florida, and New England and field offices in Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz, CA, Florida Keys, U.S. Virgin Islands and the office of Pollution Prevention and Monitoring in Virginia Beach, VA.

For more information, or to contact The Ocean Conservancy, see their website at: www.oceanconservancy.org