Join the Virtual Railroad Environmental Seminar for the Keynote Address by Dr. Nancy Knowlton on Tuesday, 27 October 2020 at 10:50 AM CDT. The event is free to attend, but registration is required.
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
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.
