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Suzanne Simard

Suzanne Simard is a Canadian scientist who is best known for her work on best known for the research she conducted on the underground networks of forests characterized by fungi and roots.

Posted byTamara AndersonFebruary 15, 2023February 15, 2023Posted inScientists, WritersTags:Fantastic Fungi, Finding the Mother Tree, Intelligent TreesLeave a comment on Suzanne Simard

Mae Jemison

Mae Carol Jemison is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.

Posted byTamara AndersonAugust 11, 2022November 14, 2022Posted inScientistsTags:astronaut, engineer, NASA, physicianLeave a comment on Mae Jemison

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, teacher of Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology, and Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.

Posted byTamara AndersonDecember 31, 2022December 25, 2022Posted inScientistsTags:Braiding Sweetgrass, Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Gathering Moss, Traditional Ecological KnowledgeLeave a comment on Robin Wall Kimmerer

Vandana Shiva

Dr. Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, ecofeminist, food sovereignty and anti-GMO advocate.

Posted byTamara AndersonMay 14, 2022June 5, 2022Posted inEnvironmentalists, ScientistsTags:Anti-GMO, Bioethics, Ecofeminist, Food Sovereignty, Gandhi of GrainLeave a comment on Vandana Shiva

Biruté Galdikas

Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas is the world’s foremost authority on the orangutan.

Posted byTamara AndersonDecember 17, 2021November 14, 2022Posted inEnvironmentalists, ScientistsTags:Indonesian Borneo, organgutan expert, primatologist, TrimatesLeave a comment on Biruté Galdikas

Sylvia Earle

Sylvia Alice Earle is an American marine biologist, oceanographer, and explorer who’s life work has been about protecting the oceans.

Posted byTamara AndersonJanuary 9, 2022Posted inEnvironmentalists, ScientistsTags:Her Deepness, Hero for the Planet, marine biologist, The Sturgeon GeneralLeave a comment on Sylvia Earle

Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall traveled from England to Tanzania where she would expand our knowledge of chimpanzees.

Posted byTamara AndersonDecember 17, 2021December 17, 2021Posted inEnvironmentalists, ScientistsTags:chimpanzee expert, primatologist, Trimates, United Nations Messenger of PeaceLeave a comment on Jane Goodall

Dian Fossey

Dr. Dian Fossey lived among the gorillas of the Virunga mountains of Rwanda, greatly contributing to the knowledge about these great apes.

Posted byTamara AndersonDecember 17, 2021December 17, 2021Posted inEnvironmentalists, ScientistsTags:gorilla expert, Gorillas in the Mist, primatologist, TrimatesLeave a comment on Dian Fossey

Mary Jackson

Mary Jackson was an American mathematician and the first black female engineer at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Posted byTamara AndersonAugust 11, 2022January 29, 2023Posted inMathematicians, ScientistsTags:engineer, Hidden Figures, NACA, NASALeave a comment on Mary Jackson

Katherine Johnson

Katherine Johnson was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.

Posted byTamara AndersonAugust 11, 2022August 28, 2022Posted inMathematicians, ScientistsTags:Hidden Figures, NACA, NASA, trajectory to the moonLeave a comment on Katherine Johnson

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