Mandë Holford: COVID, Killer Snails, Climate and Calls for Racial Justice
Dr. Mandë Holford and the Holford Lab team use a “learn-from-nature” evolutionarily integrated strategy, Mollusks to Medicine, to discover novel peptides from venomous marine snails. Photo Courtesy: Holford Lab WINGS […]
Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka: What We Can Learn from a Ugandan Wildlife Conservationist
Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka observing gorillas. Photo courtesy: Sarah Marshall Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, a WINGS WorldQuest Fellow, National Geographic Explorer and award-winning researcher, is one of the world’s leading protectors of […]
Seven Years of Sailing with Jill Fredston
Photo courtesy Doug Fesler. Explorer, author and avalanche specialist Jill Fredston won the WINGS Earth Award in 2008. Among her best discoveries is finding a frozen whale from the time […]
Anne Doubilet: From Ocean Explorer to Dedicated Activist
Courtesy Anne Doubilet Anne Doubilet is an underwater explorer, photographer and writer who brings the experience and insights of more than 5,000 dives and hundreds of hours underwater to her […]
Flag Carrier Sophie Hollingsworth Has the Ultimate Thanksgiving Recipe For You
Flag Carrier and Junior Council Explorer-In-Residence Sophie Hollingsworth is an award-winning Explorer. You also might say that she’s Indiana-Jones-Meets-Martha-Stewart. Her adventure cooking Her outdoor adventure cooking is not only daring […]
High Altitude Archaeologist Constanza Ceruti Recounts Her Journey Since Becoming a WINGS Fellow
Photo courtesy Constanza Ceruti Constanza Ceruti is a high-altitude archaeologist and anthropologist who specializes in studying sacred mountains. A Scientific Investigator at the National Council for the Scientific Research in […]
Lost Marie Curies: The Patent Gap & What We Can Do About It
Marie Curie in the lab. Photo via WikiMedia Earlier this year, both the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Congress turned their attention to gender diversity in inventing, specifically women’s […]
Lifetime Awardee Helen Thayer, 81, Continues “To Be a Work in Progress” Trekking the World
Helen Thayer on her first solo expedition to the North Pole with her dog Charlie. Photo courtesy Helen Thayer Helen Thayer spent her early years in New Zealand racking up […]
Treasure Hunting with Sue Hendrickson
Sue Hendrickson’s life has gone to the dogs.
The explorer, famed for discovering a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton, lives a quiet life in Guanaja, a Bay Island of Honduras that is home to fewer than 6,000 people.
Eighteen years ago, she started a veterinary clinic where she cares for cats, horses, pigs, parrots and more than 70 dogs. She is hoping to get most of the dogs adopted and sometimes travels to the United States with them to facilitate the process.
In 2005, Sue was honored with the WINGS WorldQuest Women of Discovery Award for her commitment to exploration. For decades she has traveled in pursuit of the world’s greatest treasurers – from prehistoric fossils to sunken shipwrecks and ancient cities.
Alexandra Morton and the Battle Over Salmon
Biologist Alexandra Morton began researching the orca whales off the coast of British Columbia 30 years ago. Around that time, the local salmon farming industry grew, and acoustic seal repellant systems were scaring away the whales as well. When whales abandoned the archipelago, she ultimately shifted her research focus to the negative impacts of salmon farms on wild salmon.
Today, the 2010 Women of Discovery Sea Award recipient is embroiled in an ongoing battle, involving direct action with indigenous communities, high-stakes litigation and a research on viruses in farm salmon for sale in markets. Alex spoke to us about her research and her efforts to protect wild salmon in Canada.
