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Arlo Hanlin Hemphill (born October 7, 1971) is an American wilderness advocate. His educational background is in
marine biology Marine biology is the scientific study of the biology of marine life, organisms in the sea. Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies s ...
. Hemphill is a Fellow National of the Explorers Club and has been listed in ''Nature'' (Myers ''et al.'' 2000) as one of 100+ global
biodiversity Biodiversity or biological diversity is the variety and variability of life on Earth. Biodiversity is a measure of variation at the genetic (''genetic variability''), species (''species diversity''), and ecosystem (''ecosystem diversity'') l ...
experts, credited for his expertise pertaining to the Greater
Caribbean The Caribbean (, ) ( es, El Caribe; french: la Caraïbe; ht, Karayib; nl, De Caraïben) is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Se ...
and the Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena
biodiversity hotspots A biodiversity hotspot is a biogeographic region with significant levels of biodiversity that is threatened by human habitation. Norman Myers wrote about the concept in two articles in ''The Environmentalist'' in 1988 and 1990, after which the co ...
.Myers et al. 2000. Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities. ''Nature'' 403: 853-858
/ref> He is best known for his involvement in regional-scale ocean conservation and was a founding steering committee member of the
Deep Sea Conservation Coalition {{No footnotes, date=November 2021 The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC) is an alliance of over 100 international organizations working to promote the conservation of biodiversity on the high seas. The coalition is calling for a moratorium on ...
, the Forum for the Conservation of the Patagonian Sea and Areas of Influence, and the Sargasso Sea Alliance.


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Arlo Hanlin Hemphill
- Personal website * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hemphill, Arlo 1971 births Living people American conservationists Palm Beach Atlantic University alumni Nova Southeastern University alumni Male actors from Baltimore American marine biologists American oceanographers American naturalists Fellows of the Explorers Club