Join the Virtual Railroad Environmental Seminar for the Keynote Address
Earth Optimism: Learning from Successes in Conservation and Sustainability
Nancy Knowlton, Ph.D., N.A.S.
Sant Chair for Marine Science, Emeritus
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
Tuesday, 27 October 2020
10:50 AM Central Daylight Time
Dr. Nancy Knowlton is a distinguished author, marine scientist and conservation biologist. She spent much of her career at the Smithsonian, first at the Tropical Research Institute in Panama and then at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, where she helped launch the Earth Optimism initiative. She was also a professor at Yale and founding director of the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego. Her many honors include election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the International Coral Reef Society’s Darwin Medal. She currently serves on the global Board of Directors of The Nature Conservancy. You can learn more about her work in her book Citizens of the Sea and by following her on Twitter at @SeaCitizens.
