https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/05/o...ion=Obituaries
Ruth Gates, Who Made Saving Coral Reefs Her Mission, Is Dead at 56
By Katharine Q. Seelye
Nov. 5, 2018
Ruth Gates, a renowned marine biologist who made it her life’s work to save the world’s fragile coral reefs from the deadening effects of warming water temperatures, died on Oct. 25 in Kailua, Hawaii. She was 56.
The Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology in Manoa, where Dr. Gates was director, announced her death, at Castle Hospital. Robin Burton-Gates, her wife, said that the cause was complications of surgery for diverticulitis. Dr. Gates also had cancer that had spread to her brain, she said...