Barbara Block Quotes:- Barbara Block is an American marine biologist and Charles & Elizabeth Prothro Professor of Biology in Marine Sciences at the Stanford University Hopkins Marine Station and a co-director of Stanford University’s Tuna Research and Conservation Center, with the Monterey Bay Aquarium. She has published numerous bodies of works throughout her career in marine biology and chemistry, mainly focusing on the biology and chemistry of metabolism in different tuna and shark species. Additionally, she has helped develop two new types of electronic tags for large pelagic predators in order to track the migrations of large oceanic predator species.
Inspirational Barbara Block Quotes
“I remember being in strong physics, physiology, and biology classes.”
Barbara Block
“I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.”
Barbara Block
“Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.”
Barbara Block
“White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.”
Barbara Block
“Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.”
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