Aishwarya Sridhar is a National Geographic Explorer & award winning wildlife film-maker, photographer, presenter & Founder of Bambee Studios. She has worked with leading networks like National Geographic, Discovery, BBC Earth and her work has been featured in international and national newspapers and magazines like BBC Wildlife, Guardian, Mongabay, Digital Camera, Times of India, Sanctuary ...
This online classroom from the Around the Americas Expedition is designed to open doors into the growing world of blue industries. ovate with our ocean.Here you’ll discover how people around the world work with and for the ocean: scientists, sailors, engineers, innovators, problem-solvers, and protectors. This classroom helps you find the path that fits you ...
Join Carlee on this journey into the deep to learn about the most amazing creatures in the oceans - sharks! As a renowned author, scientist and educator, Carlee Jackson has dedicated her life to studying sharks and educating others on their importance to the world’s oceans. From her debut on international TV with National Geographic’s ...
We care a lot about limiting climate change at WWF, and there are many sources of greenhouse gases contributing to climate change. Are cow burps one of those sources? What about our human burps? Christa Anderson is WWF's Director of Climate Science, and she'll bring you the answers to these questions and more.
What happens to a snowflake that falls in Roger’s Pass, Glacier National Park? It’s an eventful place for a snowflake to land! We’ll follow our heroine on her wild ride, which will include being examined! smashed! avalanched! plowed! melted! carried! filtered! until she’s finally on her way back to the ocean. Along the way, we’ll ...
Sea lamprey are slimy vampire fish with a round, suction cup mouth filled with tiny teeth that attach to other fish like lake trout and drink their blood! They are originally from the Atlantic Ocean but invaded the Great Lakes, where they cause big problems. Each year, these hungry sea lamprey kill about 10 million ...
Join Jill Taylor to talk about everyone's favourite seabird - the puffin! Living in Newfoundland provides many opportunities to see these delightful creatures with one of the world's largest colonies of them just off the St. John's coast. Jill is a puffin researcher, underwater videographer and science communicator. Born and raised on the east coast ...
Alysa is a conservation biologist specializing in polar bears; she is based out of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada but spends every fall and part of every summer in Churchill, Manitoba, sometimes called the Polar Bear Capital of the World. Alysa has been studying Canadian polar bears for seven years, focusing largely on the western Hudson ...
Angela is one of few female IFMGA mountain guides in the world with a career spanning over three decades. She was president of the American Mountain Guides Association and over the past 20 years has trained and examined aspiring guides. She’s led over 30 high-altitude mountaineering expeditions to the world’s Greater Ranges and guided remote ...
Trevor Kjorlien is a Space Educator based in Montréal, Québec. He teaches about space and astronomy, and is currently focused on teaching Canadians about our upcoming human mission to the Moon, Artemis II. Trevor previously worked at the Canadian Space Agency where he created videos with Canada’s astronauts, including the next man to the Moon, ...
From weaving nets to weighing cans, Coastal BC’s traditional salmon trade would not exist without the skills, knowledge, and labour of women. Join Parks Canada as we honour the stories and contributions of women at Fort Langley and the Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Sites.
Explore the hidden environmental costs of the AI systems we use every day, from simple web searches to generating videos. This workshop provides an honest look at how AI consumes energy and water, while also discussing the potential for "Carbon neutral" technology to help manage our future resources.
From keeping the lighthouse bright to joining the fight, women have played an important role in safe-guarding BC’s coast for generations. Join Parks Canada as we honour the stories and contributions of women at Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Sites.
Among the whales of the Pacific Northwest, every calf learns from the adults who nurture and guide them—much like how human children grow with support from their families and communities. Join Parks Canada to learn more about how whales grow and play in the waters of Gulf Islands National Park Reserve.
In coastal wolf packs, every pup learns from the adults who nurture and guide them—much like how human children grow with support from their families and communities. Join Parks Canada to learn more about how coastal wolves grow and play in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve.
Explore how AI is helping to solve one of the world’s biggest challenges: Zero Hunger. In this workshop, you’ll learn how smart technology helps farmers, delivery drivers, and grocery stores work together to protect our planet. Come discover how people are using code and AI as a force for good to feed the world!
Around the Americas Expedition would like to invite you to this exciting class! We are joined by the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute’s Program Coordinator, Hannah Horsfield. Hannah earned her Bachelor of Science in Environmental Geography from Cardiff University. Join Hannah as she discusses important environmental issues, such as marine plastic pollution.
Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants founder Joe Grabowski was recently invited to explore the West African countries of Senegal and Gambia with Variety Cruises. Starting in Dakar with some ship wreck diving and leading to a 400km journey up the Gambia River, it was an amazing experience exploring the slave trade history of the ...
Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants founder Joe Grabowski was recently invited to explore the West African countries of Senegal and Gambia with Variety Cruises. Starting in Dakar with some ship wreck diving and leading to a 400km journey up the Gambia River, it was an amazing experience exploring the slave trade history of the ...
Gunjan is a conservation filmmaker and the co-founder of Beyond Premieres, specializing in documentaries and impact campaigns that explore the interconnectedness of humans and wildlife, bridging the gap between indigenous knowledge and Western science. With over 50 international awards across 20 countries, her films have ignited conservation movements, inspired policy change, and raised international awareness ...
Join one of the world’s most accomplished divers and friend of Exploring By The Seat of Your Pants Jill Heinerth for this special session as part of our Engineering month exploring how she stays safe beneath the waves and in underwater caves with her dive gear! Take a look at some of the world’s most ...
Please join the Around the Americas Expedition alongside Dr. Ana Belén Yánez Suárez a marine biologist, National Geographic Explorer, Conservation Leadership Programme Alumna, and PhD candidate at Memorial University of Newfoundland as she dives into New records of deep sea sharks, skates and chimeras in the Galapagos archipelago.
Dr Taryn Murray is a scientist who studies fishes, sharks and rays along the coast of South Africa. She uses small underwater tags that send out sound signals to find out where these animals swim and live. It's a bit like being an ocean detective! She strives to use this information to protect these important ...
Roma Agrawal is a structural engineer, author and presenter who is best known for working on the design of The Shard in London, Western Europe's tallest tower. She’s designed bridges, skyscrapers and sculptures with signature architects over het fourteen year career. She spent 6 years working on The Shard, designing the foundations and the iconic ...
Eleanor Moreland is a planetary geologist and Ph.D. candidate at Rice University who has always loved solving mysteries, and today, she studies clues hidden inside rocks: minerals! Ellie works on methods to identify mineral fingerprints in rocks and applies these methods to planets beyond Earth. As part of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover Science Team, ...
Keneiloe is an underground astronaut, exploring cave systems in search of fossil remains of our early human ancestors. She's an archaeologist and biological anthropologist in South Africa, whose work helps our understanding of human evolution. She's a lead excavator in the Rising Star Cave System and a scientific researcher at the Centre for Exploration of ...
Aaron is a Mechanical Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He designs, builds, and tests robotic systems to acquire samples of rocks and soil from other planets so that we can study them for science. He has had roles on the Mars Science Laboratory Rover Mission and the InSight Mars Lander. He was part of ...
Nondas Silva is a Brazilian social and environmental entrepreneur from the Cerrado region of Northern Minas Gerais. He is the founder and president of Instituto New Era, a youth-led organization advancing community-based ecosystem restoration in the Brazilian Cerrado. His work focuses on strengthening local restoration capacity, promoting environmental education, and building inclusive governance models that ...
How would you do science without any money? MARE-Madeira is a research centre on Madeira Island, Portugal, that began in 2013 with two researchers without a dime! Using creativity, MARE-Madeira has grown into the largest research centre on the island and is now starting a deep-sea research program. Learn how your imagination is your greatest ...
Star of Sharknado 3 (not really) and engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Bobak is the Fault Protection lead on the NISAR joint Earth observation mission with India at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His prior positions have included Launch, Cruise, Approach Engineering Lead and Flight Director on Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity, Science Planner on the ...
Join Paul to learn about NASA's Artemis missions so far and the future ones that will put humans back on the moon for the first time in 50+ years. Paul is a planetary scientist who worked on NASA’s MESSENGER mission, the first to orbit the planet Mercury. His research focuses on comparing and contrasting the ...
What do brainless slime, spiders, and elephants have in common? They’re inspiring some of the smartest inventions on Earth. That’s why innovators at places like NASA and Nike are paying attention to a field called biomimicry — learning from nature, not just about it. Join us to meet some of these overlooked wizards and discover inventions ...
This Women's History Month, Pioneers of the Possible is proud to celebrate the women building — quite literally — on the legacies of history's great explorers. Last summer, co-host Sunniva Sørby joined an extraordinary cohort of eight women at the Steger Center for the Advanced Women's Timber Framing Course, where participants crafted trusses for a ...
Venture into some of the darkest and most unique places inside the Earth: Caves formed where glacier ice and volcanic heat interact, creating otherworldly environments that are both cold and hot at the same time. Christian Stenner has explored largest and deepest of these glaciovolcanic caves in the world. Caves that tell us about volcanic ...
