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Kennedy has worked in coral restoration with the Bahamas Coral Innovation Hub, taught applied research, marine ecology, and scuba diving at The Island School, and coordinated response efforts to mitigate the devastating impacts of stony coral tissue loss disease across the U.S. coral jurisdictions as a Coral Disease Associate with Florida Sea Grant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fffa10be3ceda1c1a857f06/46d0c084-a434-49d5-8c6e-00db3698aa5e/ECRC_Karan_Deshpande.jpg Team - Make it stand out Karan is from Mumbai; he is a conservation practitioner, whose work focuses on coral reef habitats along the west coast of India. 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