Kent Carpenter, an American marine biologist, led the Global Marine Species Assessment with his team at Old Dominion University for over two decades. His team coordinated hundreds of experts worldwide to assess nearly 20,000 marine fishes, corals, and other marine species for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. He was murdered in the Philippines.

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