Margaret is the Research Director of SECORE International, a conservation organisation for the protection and restoration of coral reefs. She was formerly an ecologist with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Southeast Fisheries Science Center. She received an undergraduate degree from Indiana University and a doctorate in Marine Ecology from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill). After some research with the University of Miami, she began work for NOAA-Fisheries as the lead benthic (sea floor) ecologist.
