Arnesen's rich life experiences have made her an internationally recognized leader and role model.  Through her diverse roles as polar explorer, educator and motivational leader, Arnesen ignites passion in...  [Read More]

Felicity Aston led the Kaspersky Lab Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition, the largest and most international women’s team ever to ski to the South Pole. The team included women from Brunei Darussalam, Cyprus,...  [Read More]

Gitanjali Banerjee concentrates her field research on the nutritional ecology of four herbivores in Kaziringa National Park in Assam, India. Her work focuses on developing an understanding of...  [Read More]

Thirty years ago American-born Carol Beckwith and Australian Angela Fisher met in Kenya and began a relationship with the African continent that would profoundly alter and shape their lives. Their journeys would take...  [Read More]

Janine Benyus is a natural sciences writer, and author of six books, including Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. She has cultivated a deep knowledge of the natural world, beginning with direct...  [Read More]

Marilyn Bridges is an aerial photographer who has captured brilliant images that tell the story of human design, innovation and architecture and document landmark structures made centuries ago and the contours of the...  [Read More]

Nathalie Cabrol is a planetary geologist who works with NASA's Ames Research Center, analyzing images and data from Mars to discover whether the Martian environment might support living organisms. She has led field...  [Read More]

Dr. Eugenie Clark, known as "the shark lady," was born in New York City where she attended school.  She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Hunter College and Master of Arts...  [Read More]

Dalia Amor Conde has focused her work on the Mayan forest of the Yucatan Peninsula, one of the most threatened ecosystems in the Americas. Deforestation has had an alarming impact on animal species and Dalia believes...  [Read More]

Wildlife biologist Aparajita Datta has spent the last 13 years working to conserve the rainforests of Arunachal Pradesh in north-eastern India, arguably India's richest biodiversity region. She pioneered long-term...  [Read More]

Scientist, inventor and explorer extraordinaire, Sylvia Earle holds records for the deepest unassisted dive, for living underwater, and for piloting submersibles she built and designed to make new discoveries on the...  [Read More]

Thirty years ago American-born Carol Beckwith and Australian Angela Fisher met in Kenya and began a relationship with the African continent that would profoundly alter and shape their lives. Their journeys would take...  [Read More]

Sveva Gallmann, a Kenyan ethnobotanist, has been honored for her field research on how native plants are used for healing. A native speaker of several Kenyan tribal languages, Ms. Gallmann currently coordinates the...  [Read More]

Jane Goodall is the world's foremost authority on chimpanzees, having closely observed their behavior for the past quarter century in the jungles of the Gombe Game Reserve in Africa, living in the chimps' environment...  [Read More]

Kate Harris is a young scientist, wilderness conservationist, adventurer, and writer. From living in a yurt in outer Mongolia to cycling the Silk Road to conducting field research in Antarctica, Kate is a nomad most...  [Read More]

Sue Hendrickson is an independent explorer who is searching for clues relating to ancient life. She dives on ancient wrecks off the Philippine Islands and Cuba, and the submerged ancient city of Herakleon in Egypt....  [Read More]

Nina G. Jablonski is a biological anthropologist and paleobiologist who conducts research on the evolution of adaptations to the environment in humans and our close primate relatives. She is currently Head and...  [Read More]

Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka led a team investigating a scabies outbreak among mountain gorillas in Uganda, eventually tracing it to humans who live around the mountain park preserve. Because of the inadequate health care...  [Read More]

As co-director of the Ecosystem Conservation Office of the Tribal Government of St. Paul Island, Aquilina Lestenkof has innovatively blended science with native Aleut traditions to enhance the well-being of the...  [Read More]

The Humanity award was presented to archaeologist Iris Cornelia Love, both for the decades of work she has devoted to the ruins of Cnidus, an important ancient city in southwestern Asia Minor, and for her discovery...  [Read More]

Vera Metcalf's community-based projects document traditional ecological knowledge and community resource management practices. In collaboration with hunters and elders, Vera studies walrus population distribution,...  [Read More]

Since childhood, Aimee has had an intuitive connection with animals, and used these insights in developing her own techniques for teaching parrots to use language. Aimee has been working with parrots since 1985. Her...  [Read More]

Irina Nikolaeva has spent years documenting endangered languages, most notably the Kolyma Yukaghir dialect, spoken by about forty people in North-East Siberia. Her interests include syntax, morphology, typology and...  [Read More]

Erin Pettit is a glaciologist who has researched the dynamics of ice flow from Antarctica to Mount Rainier. An ardent outdoorswoman who studies and teaches about alpine wildlands, she is currently studying dry valley...  [Read More]

Ana Cristina Pinto-Llona is an archaeologist who spent much of her life organizing archaeological and palaeontological excavations in northern Spain. Her research on the palaeoecology of cave bears has changed the...  [Read More]

Andrea Polli is a digital media artist, Associate Professor in Fine Arts and Engineering and Director of the Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media Program and ARTS Lab at The University of New Mexico. Polli's work...  [Read More]

Jane Poynter, explorer, author, Biospherian and President of Paragon Space Development Corporation, an aerospace firm that designs environments for extreme situations, is engaged in laying the groundwork for human...  [Read More]

Vera Cooper Rubin, the second daughter of Philip and Rose Cooper, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 23, 1928. As a child she exhibited a naive fascination for the stars which later, as an astronomer,...  [Read More]

 Cave scientist, explorer, geologist, geomicrobiologist, and environmental lawyer, Stephanie Schwabe is the founder and director of the Rob Palmer Blue Holes Foundation. The Foundation is dedicated to the...  [Read More]

Jill Tarter holds the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI Research and is Director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. Tarter received her Bachelor of Engineering Physics...  [Read More]

American oceanographic cartographer (b, July 30, 1920, Ypsilanti, Mich.—d. Aug. 23, 2006, Nyack, N.Y.), pioneered ocean-floor mapping, which provided crucial support for the acceptance of seafloor spreading and...  [Read More]

Dr. Cindy Lee Van Dover is a deep-sea biologist with an interest in ocean exploration and the ecology of chemosynthetic ecosystems. She began her work in this field in 1982, joining the first biological expedition to...  [Read More]

As climate change continues and polar regions warm, permafrost melts are creating new Arctic lakes in a process called Thermokarst Lake formation. Walter Anthony’s research reveals that as the permafrost melts...  [Read More]

For over 30 years, Wiessner has carried out studies of the !Kung (Ju/’hoansi) Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert, documenting what happens to Bushman populations when inherited social systems of reciprocity become...  [Read More]