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that your ancestors lie in this ground. Here
you will give your gifts and meet your
responsibilities. To become naturalized is
to live as if your children’s future matters,
to take care of the land as if our lives and
the lives of all our relatives depend on it.
Because they do.”
Let’s become naturalized to the places
where we live and work by listening to,
learning from, and supporting the people
in our communities. And let’s make sure
that we do so in a sustained, respectful,
and consequential manner.
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AUTHOR
Mona Behl (mbehl@uga.edu) is Associate Director,
Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant, University
of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, and a member of the
TOS JEDI Committee.
ARTICLE CITATION
Behl, M. 2021. Science in service of our communi-
ties. Oceanography 35(1):5–6, https://doi.org/10.5670/
oceanog.2021.403.
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