4 People Changing the Tides

In honor of World Oceans Week coming up in June, The Explorers Club 50 Speaker Series is celebrating with four stewards of the ocean. These biologists, scientists, and filmmakers from around the globe are committed to researching, documenting, and protecting the future of our seas.

Check out how they are making waves and don't miss the Ocean Stewards Panel Discussion at explorers.org on Wednesday, May 26th at 7pm.

May 25, 2021

By: The Explorers Club and Discovery

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Photo By: Darwin Island, Macarena Parra

Photo By: Jim Carlton

Photo By: Generous Films

Photo By: Eric Johnson, Esri

Photo By: S. Heiser

Photo By: J.B. McClintock

Photo By: Louise Jasper/Blue Ventures

Photo By: Chris Scarffe

Inti Keith

Meet Inti Keith, who leads the Charles Darwin Foundation´s Marine Invasive Species and Subtidal Ecological Monitoring Programs in the Galapagos Marine Reserve. Her interests lie in understanding the current health of marine ecosystems in the Eastern Tropical Pacific and evaluating the impacts of human-induced factors in the ecosystem.

Inti Keith

Inti is currently working on mobilizing science and management solutions that protect, empower, and sustain coastal communities and prevent species extinction. Pictured here is an invasive species, Ascidia sydneiensis.

Dawn Wright

Dawn Wright is an American oceanographer who became the first Black female to dive to the deep ocean floor in a submersible. She is Chief Scientist of Esri, a world-leading geospatial data science company. Dawn also a professor at Oregon State University and a former Oregon Professor of the Year.

Dawn Wright

Dawn has completed oceanographic fieldwork in some of the most geologically-active regions on the planet, including the East Pacific Rise, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the Juan de Fuca Ridge, the Tonga Trench, volcanoes under the Japan Sea and the Indian Ocean, and American Samoa.

Margaret O'Leary Amsler

Margaret “Maggie” O’Leary Amsler is a marine biologist with 30 expeditions to Antarctica under her belt. Her research initially focused on the Antarctic krill and more recently concentrates on subtidal benthic ecology, invasive crabs and the consequences of ocean acidification. Maggie has over 500 SCUBA dives and 33 submersible hours in Antarctic waters.

Margaret O’Leary Amsler

As a polar marine biologist, she has delved into Antarctica’s deep sea investigating potentially invasive crabs. That work, coupled with her krill experience, lead to participation in one of the first scientific submersible explorations of Antarctica’s abyss.

Michel Strogoff

Meet Michel “Goff” Strogoff - a former shark, turtle and sea cucumber fisherman turned environmental filmmaker, photographer and adventurer from Madagascar. His drive is to educate, explore and, where necessary, expose those carrying out environmental crimes.

There are relatively few professional Malagasy filmmakers and photographers and unfortunately even fewer who specialize in telling environmental stories or know how to film underwater. Michel hopes that his work will inspire others to become involved in this field and educate communities about the Madagascar marine world.