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Jeremy B.C. Jackson has studied tropical ecosystems since the 1960s. He is the Ritter Professor of Oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and senior scientist emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution.
Entire ecosystems teeter on the brink of extinction as slime and dead zones take over.
