Explorer Classroom

Shivani Bhalla is working to safeguard the future of Kenya's rapidly declining lion populations. There are now fewer than 2,000 lions in Kenya, and they could vanish within twenty years. Shivani founded the conservation organization Ewaso Lions to promote coexistence between people and lions.

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Jenna Jambeck specializes in global waste management issues and plastic contamination. Her work on plastic waste inputs into the ocean published in Science magazine has been translated into policy discussions throughout the world.

Join Asha de Vos to learn about the "unorthodox blue whales" of the northern Indian Ocean.

Lillygol Sedaghat is documenting Taiwan’s waste management system and innovations in plastics and electronics recycling.  She hopes to inspire conscious consumerism and spark a global discussion on trash with #MyWasteMyWay.

Imogen Napper is passionate about being part of the solution to ocean plastics. Her work recently helped influence the ban of microbeads in cosmetics internationally.

Wildlife filmmaker Bertie Gregory has channeled his childhood obsession with wild animals into a career.  Join him in the field in Arctic Canada where he’s filming for his latest project. 

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Katlin Bowman studies mercury chemistry in marine environments. Mercury levels in the ocean are on the rise, due to human activities like fossil fuel combustion and gold mining. Currently, Katlin is studying how microplastic pollution in San Francisco Bay impacts mercury cycling.

Marina Elliott is a biological Anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer. She is currently working in the Rising Star Cave system.

Known as “Her Deepness” for her record-breaking accomplishments beneath the ocean’s surface, Dr. Sylvia Earle has been named a “living legend” by the Library of Congress and the first “Hero for the Planet” by Time.