|
Charles Monnett, Ph.D. is an Arctic Wildlife biologist with U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE), an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages the nation's natural gas, oil and other mineral resources on the outer continental shelf (OCS). As Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) for BOEMRE, Monnett coordinated much of the agency's research on Arctic wildlife and ecology and had duties that included managing about $50 million worth of studies on the impact of oil/gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean. In July 2011, Monnett was suspended for 6 weeks, and lost his COR status, pending an ongoing investigation by the DOI Office of Inspector General. His defenders claimed he was subjected to a smear campaign. In December 2013, The Department of the Interior settled a whistleblower suit initiated by Monnett. They cleared his record of any reference to wrongdoing and awarded him $100,000. == Research == Monnett's research has been focused on the Arctic. He is the author of several studies on the Arctic ecosystem, particularly several done for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the wake of the Exxon Valdez oil spill〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.arlis.org/docs/vol1/33944236.pdf )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.arlis.org/docs/vol1/33944235.pdf )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.arlis.org/docs/vol1/33944239.pdf )〕 Some of Monnett's most noted work deals with polar bears and the effects of climate change on the species. Monnett was on a research flight tracking bowhead whales in 2004 when he and a colleague, Jeff Gleason, spotted four dead polar bears floating in the water after a storm.〔 After additional research, Monnett found that this was "the first time dead bears () been spotted among more than 350 sightings of swimming bears recorded over 16 years of surveying the area." Monnett conjectured that this was due to "bears having to swim up to 60 miles across open sea to find food. They () being forced into the long voyages because the ice floes from which they feed () melting, becoming smaller and drifting farther apart." Monnett published his findings in 2006 in an article in the peer-reviewed journal ''Polar Biology''. Al Gore referenced Monnett's study in his 2006 documentary ''An Inconvenient Truth'', which made the polar bears into an important symbol of climate change. The paper was cited by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in its 2008 decision to list the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Monnett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|