Dr. Sylvia Earle doing what she does so well: Making a difference and communicating to all of us in the best interest of humanity, her message being: the health of our oceans are under great threat.
Called “Her Deepness” by the New Yorker and the New York Times, a “Living Legend” by the Library of Congress, and Time Magazine’s first “Hero for the Planet,” Sylvia Earle is an oceanographer, explorer, author, lecturer, Explorer in Residence of the National Geographic Society, Leader of the Sustainable Seas Expeditions, Council Chair for the Harte Research Institute at Texas A & M, Corpus Christi, Founder and Chairman of the Mission Blue Foundation, and formerly the Chief Scientist of NOAA. She has founded three companies including Deep Ocean Exploration and Research and served on various corporate Boards including Dresser Industries, Kerr-McGee, Oryx Energy and Undersea Industries. She is a graduate of St. Petersburg College and Florida State University with MA and PhD from Duke University and 17 honorary doctorates.
Dr Earle knows what she is talking about having spent thousands of hours working and researching under water to check out the state of the oceans. Few people realize how crucial the health of the oceans are to man’s own well-being.
Dr Earle’s website Mission Blue.
