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Thandiwe Mweetwa
Thandiwe Mweetwa is a senior ecologist and community educator with the Zambian Carnivore Programme. Her work focuses on studying population dynamics and threats to survival...
Nalini Nadkarni
Nalini Nadkarni is known as the "Queen of the Forest Canopy." For three decades, she has used mountain-climbing techniques, construction cranes, and hot air balloons to...
Eleanor Sterling
Eleanor Sterling, Jaffe Chief Conservation Scientist, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (CBC), American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) Dr. Eleanor Sterling is passionate about the intersection...
Asha de Vos
Asha de Vos is a Sri Lankan marine biologist, ocean educator and pioneer of blue whale research within the Northern Indian Ocean. She calls the...
Laly Lichtenfeld
Dr. Laly Lichtenfeld is committed to a world where communities and wildlife coexist and thrive. A twenty-year resident of Tanzania, she co-founded African People &...
Darlene Lim
Dr. Darlene Lim is a Senior Research Scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center. Darlene’s research is focused on how to integrate rapid science input...
Krithi Karanth
Dr. Krithi Karanth is the CEO of the Centre for Wildlife Studies, which combines innovative wildlife research with conservation, education and policy outreach. She also is Adjunct...
Gretel Ehrlich
An author of 13 books, poet, documentary filmmaker, former sheepherder and ranch hand, Gretel Ehrlich has truly done it all. She was born in Santa...
Diva Amon
Dr. Diva Amon is a Trinidadian deep-sea biologist with a special interest in deep-sea organisms and how human activity affects life far below the ocean’s surface....
Liz Taylor
Since 1992, President and CEO Liz Taylor and her team have grown DOER Marine (Deep Ocean Exploration and Research Marine) from a consulting and field services firm...
Jill Heinerth
JILL HEINERTH is one of the world's premier underwater explorers and the first person to dive inside iceberg caves. A pioneering explorer, award-winning filmmaker and...
Juliana Machado Ferreira
Dr. Juliana Machado Ferreira founded and serves as Executive Director of FREELAND Brasil, whose mission is to conserve biodiversity by ending wildlife trafficking. She designs...
Hope Jahren
Hope Jahren is the "New York Times Best Seller" author of Lab Girl, a memoir about a woman in science and a lifelong love and...
Beate G. Liepert
Dr. Beate G. Liepert discovered during her graduate work at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich that declines in solar energy reaching Earth’s surface were equivalent...
Kristen Marhaver
Dr. Kristen Marhaver, a marine biologist, completed her NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship studying the ecology, reproduction, and juvenile behavior of Caribbean reef corals at the CARMABI...