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guests about the expedition. Almost 3,000 guests attended the NightLife, and the vast majority of 
them were Filipino, including the Consul General and staff from the San Francisco Philippine Con¬ 
sulate and the Secretary of Tourism, visiting from Manila. The event received rave reviews and 
remains the single largest Filipino outreach event in CAS history. 
The impact of the expedition and CAS’s connection to the Philippines continue. In November 
2012, as a follow-up to the expedition and at the invitation of the University of the Philippines, Dil¬ 
iman, nine CAS staff, including Gosliner, Burke, Williams, Piotrowski, and Brian Simison from the 
expedition, spent a week at the university delivering and participating in multi-disciplinary work¬ 
shops focused on integrating research, education, exhibits and conservation. Hundreds attended the 
event, from across the Philippines. 
Most recently, Gosliner and Burke were invited guests and presenters at meetings of Mayor 
Villanueva of Mabini and his Council, and of the Batangas Provincial Government Board on 
November 12 and 13, 2013, respectively. The focus of the meetings was creating sustainable 
coastal ecosystem development plans. CAS was honored to be asked to share its expertise and 
excited to be able to help play a role in helping conserve natural resources and securing sustainable 
livelihoods for coastal communities. These meetings took place in the context of the devastation 
brought by Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), which hit the central Philippines November 7-8. 
While Manila and Batangas Province were virtually unscathed by the typhoon, it was a wake up 
call to everyone about the increasing impacts of climate change and the necessity of preserving 
intact coral reef and mangrove ecosystems to help abate stonn damage. The Batangas Provincial 
Government Board voted unanimously to proceed with a coastal ecosystem development plan after 
Gosliner’s statement on the floor of the legislature. Durmg this trip, Burke and Gosliner also 
learned of another impact of the 2011 expedition: KGO TV’s award-winning documentary. Reefs 
to Rainforests: The Great Expedition, is being used in graduate classes at the Asian Institute of 
Management in Manila to help MBA students better understand the uniquely rich and valuable nat¬ 
ural resources of the Phihppines. 
Many of the CAS and Filipino participants in the shallow-water and deep-water components 
of the 2011 expedition are now gearing up for two more field seasons of biodiversity surveying 
along the Verde Island Passage in the springs of 2014 and 2015, courtesy of the recent NSF grant 
(Collaborative Proposal: Documenting Diversity in the Apex of the Coral Triangle: Inventory of 
Philippine Marine Biodiversity, DEV-1257630) awarded to Gosliner. Following the successful 
2011 expedition model, educational outreach will once again be embedded in the fieldwork. 
Acknowledgements 
We would like to thank all of our colleagues who helped make the expedition and its educa¬ 
tional outreach such a success, before, during and after. From our funders. Will and Margaret 
Hearst, to each and every member of the expedition teams, our outreach partners, our planning and 
logistical supporters in the U.S. and the Philippines, and our enthusiastic audiences, we literally 
couldn’t have done it without you. Maraming salamat po kayo. 
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Gosliner, T. M., and M. Burke. 2013. From parachutes to partnerships: an “integrated” natural history muse¬ 
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T.M. Gosliner, eds., The Coral Triangle: The 2011 Hearst Biodiversity Philippine Expedition. California Academy 
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