Margaret Miller
Decades of Change in the Florida Reef Tract: An Oral History Project
Florida is home to the only barrier reef in the continental United States. This project uses oral history interviews of coral reef stakeholders in Florida to showcase major changes in the reef tract over the past few decades. The stakeholders interviewed include scientists, fishermen, and SCUBA divers.
Margaret Miller is the Research Director for SECORE International, a conservation nonprofit dedicated to creating and sharing the tools and technologies to sustainably restore coral reefs worldwide. She leads SECORE’s research strategy and fosters research collaborations with scientific partners. Margaret serves on the US-Acropora Recovery Implementation Team (ARIT) and as a Councilor-At-Large for the International Coral Reef Society. Previously, she spent 19 years as a Research Ecologist with NOAA Fisheries’ Southeast Science Center. She led an active field research program in the Florida Keys focused on coral early life history, coral restoration, population studies of threatened elkhorn and stagorn corals and their threats as well as playing instrumental roles in shaping NOAAs coral reef monitoring program and the listing and recovery planning process for corals under the Endangered Species Act.
Margaret grew up and learned to SCUBA dive in southern Indiana. She has an undergraduate degree from Indiana University and a doctorate in marine ecology from UNC-Chapel Hill. She currently resides in Miami with her husband and 17-year-old son and is an active member of Crossbridge Key Biscayne church.
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