| 10/08 |
Bloomberg.com - There is so much left to discover about the natural world. Scientists working on an Earthwatch project recently discovered a coral reef in the Seychelles! |
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| 10/08 |
Voice of America - Check out an excerpt from an interview Ed Wilson did with Voice of America, where he chats with folks from all over the world. Because of the relevance, the interview is linked to one Voice of America did with journalist and author Thomas Friedman about his latest book called “Hot, Flat, and Crowded”. |
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| 9/08 |
Scientific American - Hot off the presses! Check out this in-depth story by Jim Cornfield that features three Earthwatch projects: Easter Island Culture, Saving the Tarangire Migration and Climate Change at the Arctic’s Edge. It is about to feature in a special “green” issue of Scientific American called Earth 3.0, and will be available on newsstands for 3 months starting September 30th. |
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| 9/08 |
Listen to scientist Bruce Patterson explain his thoughts on what it would take to establish a sustainable future for the lions in Tsavo. |
| 9/08 |
Wall Street Journal - Read about star Earthwatch volunteer, Warren Stortroen, in a special weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal. Warren—who says he’s “addicted to Earthwatch!” (And we agree: He’s been on more than 50 expeditions)—once discovered a Volkswagen Beetle-sized fossil on the Mexican Megafauna project. Go Warren! |
| 9/08 |
Pulse of the Planet - Did you know that caterpillars can flick away their frass (otherwise known as their poop)—often shooting it great distances? In fact, if you listen hard enough, you might just be able to hear the caterpillars in the rainforest when they, um, poop. Executive Producer Jim Metzer from “Pulse of the Planet” made a special visit to Lee Dyer’s “Climate Change and Caterpillars in Costa Rica” Earthwatch project this summer to check out this action in person. |
| 8/08 |
tampabay.com/The St. Petersburg Times - Read about Florida science teacher Linda Whitaker’s experience of a lifetime this summer! She came home inspired to kickstart a recycling program in her classroom after joining the “Sharks and Rays of Monterey Bay” project. Her fellowship was supported by the generosity of the Tampa Bay Rays. |
| 8/08 |
The Boston Globe - As reporter Lisa Lubin writes in this Boston Globe piece, Earthwatch brings science to life for people concerned about the planet's future—educating and inspiring them to take action toward a sustainable world |
| 8/08 |
The Weather Channel - Forecast Earth - "Darren Hobbs, a Denver, Colorado, airline pilot, studied mountain lions in Idaho and dolphins off the coast of Spain during recent vacations. While he learned a great deal and made lasting friendships on those trips, organized by the nonprofit Earthwatch Institute, he took special pleasure in knowing that the dolphin research he participated in eventually led to the creation of a marine reserve. ..." |
| 8/08 |
Sioux City Journal - Earthwatch volunteers on the Agenbroad project are still hard at work in Hot Springs, South Dakota. They recently uncovered Mammoth tusk # 57! |
| 7/08 |
Check out the Newsweek web exclusive entitled "We All Need to Do Something" featuring Hal Avery's "Diamondback Terrapins of Barnegat Bay" project - including a 5-minute video from the field! The story itself specifically highlights the great experience of one of our family teams (Louise Craig and her son!). Excerpt from the story: "For nearly two weeks, she and her son Albert, then 10, monitored nesting sites, collected vegetation samples and tracked the turtles, whose numbers are being depleted due to land development. "These are some of the coolest creatures on earth," Craig says. "We could have gone to Disneyland, but I know that this was more important. Maybe in our own small way we helped these turtles, and that would be just wonderful." |
| 6/08 |
Listen to this 6-minute-long radio interview between travel guru Peter Greenberg and Ed Wilson—a live broadcast from Saturday, June 21st!
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| 6/08 |
Condé Nast Traveler - Read a fabulous and colorful, first-hand account by reporter Alison Humes, who participated in John Rollino's reef project in the Bahamas ("Romancing a Reef in the Bahamas"). This special report is nine pages long in the hard copy. The Earthwatch-related story starts on page 6 in the online version.
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| 6/08 |
Science Centric - Learn how coral reefs in Belize are being affected by storms and hurricanes and what Earthwatch scientist Dr James Crabbe from the University of Bedfordshire (UK) has to say.
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| 6/08 |
Plenty magazine - Earthwatch's Meerkats of the Kalahari featured. Want to find a way to have an authentic experience by giving back-volunteering your time toward the preservation of animals and culture?
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| 6/08 |
New York Times - Babson College students team with Earthwatch Institute. |
| 6/08 |
Zambia -- Conservation on the Zambezi Read this great firsthand account by a reporter who joined an Earthwatch team in Zambia and participated in an after-dark hunt for endangered reptiles on the banks of the Zambezi.
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| 6/08 |
WildlifeExtra.com. Scientists call for urgent action to prevent loggerhead turtle disaster.
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| 5/08 |
ForbesTraveler.com. World-class Eco-tours featuring Earthwatch.
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| 5/08 |
Research Station at Hunting Caye Handed to University of Belize. A dedication ceremony was held in Belize for the Sapodilla Cayes Living Reef Center-a marine research center built by Earthwatch now owned and managed by the University of Belize. With funding from an anonymous donor and the Oak Foundation, the center will be a hub for marine research and education. At the ceremony, the Deputy Prime Minister of Belize gave the keynote address. Read more.
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| 4/08 |
Cooking Light, April 2008 issue. Feature article on volunteer "vacations" focusing on Earthwatch and our Costa Rican Sea Turtles project. Read the article (pdf). |
| 4/08 |
New York CW11 WPIX Television - Summer travel season is just around the corner and if you’re keeping the environment in mind, you may be interested in making a greener getaway! Watch the video |
| 4/08 |
Dr. Patricia Wright, Principal Investigator of Earthwatch expedition Madagascar's Lemurs, is working with an international team of researchers to develop a detailed, multi-species habitat map, with the goal of determining the most important areas for preservation. Read the article |
| 4/08 |
The Society of Woman Geographers awards Earthwatch scientist Dr. Laurie Marker with the 2008 Gold Medal. Dr. Marker has been selected to receive this year's award from the Society of Women Geographers (SWG) for her work as a conservation biologist and for the founding of CCF. The award, which is only given every three years and includes names such as Amelia Earhardt, Margaret Mead, Mary Douglas Leakey and Jane Goodall, will be presented to Laurie at the SWG's Triennial in Chicago in May 2008.
Zoological Society of San Diego has awarded Dr. Marker with their Conservation Medal of the Lifetime Achievement Award for her work with cheetahs and local communities in Africa.
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| 3/08 |
Dive into the Virgin Islands and learn more about Paul Sikkel’s research on fish parasites. Earthwatch CEO and president Ed Wilson was one of the team members on this expedition, which was documented by Omniscopic Productions for an episode of National Geographic's "Wild Chronicles" to be aired later this year. |
| 3/08 |
Find your inner "Indiana Jones” in this Forbestraveler.com article featuring Earthwatch! |
| 2/08 |
Smithsonian Magazine - Laurie Marker probably knows more about cheetahs than anyone else in the world. She works around the clock in Namibia-often with the help of Earthwatch volunteers-to save the world's fastest mammal from its race against extinction. Get up to speed on her groundbreaking research by reading the cover story for this month's Smithsonian Magazine. |
| 12/07 |
Islands Magazine, December 2007 issue - Earthwatch recognized with inaugural "Blue List" award as " ... the world's leaders and innovators in sustainable tourism." |
| 12/07 |
O, The Oprah Magazine, December 2007 issue - Earthwatch expeditions featured as one of O's Volunteer Vacation Picks. |
| 12/07 |
Audubon Magazine, web exclusive photo essay. Featured are Earthwatch volunteer Kim Hubbard's experiences on Elephants of Tsavo. |
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11/07
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Four Earthwatch expeditions featured in the November issue of "Travel and Leisure." 40 Trips To Change Your World - these dream journeys are guaranteed to make a difference in your life, and the lives of those you help along the way. For more, visit: Dolphins and Whales of Abaco Island, Armenia's Architectural Heritage, Origins of Angkor, and Music and Folklore of Russian Villages. |
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11/07
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Wild African Penguins are in trouble. Les Underhill, Director of the Avian Demography Unit and Principal Investigator for Earthwatch's South African Penguins, interviewed three penguin researchers to find out more about life in penguin colonies. For more, visit: " Life and Times of the African Penguin" |
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11/07
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Earthwatch's Director of Education, Alan Fortescue, is the Chief Educational Consultant on PBS' new "Meet the Greens" web show.
View the Yahoo!Tech article or go directly to the "Meet the Greens"website. |
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10/07
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Earthwatch's Koala Ecology expedition listed as one of National Geographic Traveler magazine's 50 Tours of a Lifetime.
"There's a clear demand by travelers for truly authentic experiences, so we've scoured the field for trips that delve deep, provide uncommon access and, most importantly, pave the way for interaction with local people. Our second annual collection of the world's best tours reflects a new travel ethic: It's possible to have electric experiences while traveling with tour companies that truly know the ropes." National Geographic Traveler, October 2007.
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8/07
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The Press Enterprise, Riverside, CA - Riverside teacher doing research in Brazil's vast Pantanal wetlands. |
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8/07
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St. Petersburg Times - Royal Caribbean and Earthwatch partner to send teachers into the field to study dolphins and whales. |
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8/07
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Earthwatch is partnering with Starbucks and other environmental organizations to engage the public in a "National Day of Discussion" about climate change on August 15. |
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6/07
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Google Earth Outreach - New initiative helps nonprofit organizations around the world leverage the power of Google Earth to advocate, educate; new Global Awareness layers from Global Heritage Fund,Earthwatch Institute, TransFair USA. |
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4/07
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An interview with Earthwatch supported scientist, Jane Britt Greenwood, on Armenia's Architectural Language: Getting lost in Translation. |
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3/07
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maltastar.com - BICREF Gets a Helping Hand. BICREF, the Biological Conservation Research Foundation, has received the support of ten HSBC-Earthwatch research fellows' funds, to assist in the NGO's local and regional conservation research and awareness projects. One of the events these fellows will be contributing to is the annual BICREF seminars which cover topics from marine mammals and marine biodiversity, to coastal conservation area biodiversity on land, climate change, and anthropogenic impacts on flora and fauna. |
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3/07
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Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh, Yes! Earthwatch, a leading environmental organization, has a fellowship, Live from the Field, taking educators on a journey of active professional development with lead scientists. During their expeditions, teachers share their learning experiences directly with classrooms at home through web posts of journals, photos, lessons, suggested activities, and teleconferencing. |
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3/07
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DallasNews.com - Spring Break Gone Wild - Frisco High teen takes off for research project in forests of Costa Rica. Earthwatch Institute, an international nonprofit organization that recruits volunteers to work with scientists on field research, sponsored the trip. "Not many high school students can say, 'For spring break I did scientific research in a foreign country,' " said the budding environmentalist who spent a week studying monkeys in Costa Rica. |
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3/07
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phillyBurbs.com - Study of climate in Canada has chilling effect on BCIT teacher. John Moore, who teaches geological sciences at the Burlington County Institute of Technology's Medford campus, spent two weeks in northern Canada along with 11 volunteers from around the world to participate in a climate study. Moore was chosen for the trip by the Earthwatch Institute, an international nonprofit organization that sends scientists, teachers and volunteers into the field to study the environment.
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3/07
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ScienceDaily - Threatened Vulture Wanders Far From Mongolia. Dr. Rich Reading (Denver Zoo) reports that a young cinereous vulture tagged in Mongolia as part of his Earthwatch-supported research was spotted 1200 miles away, near Pusan, South Korea. The vulture was tagged last August... |
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3/07
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LancasterONLINE - Putting Local Bacteria on the Map - Summer soil study of bacteria's resistance to antibiotics is among first of its kind. Everyone knows the germs in hospitals are getting more resistant to penicillin and other therapeutic drugs. But what about garden-variety bacteria out there in the fields, suburban lawns and woods? The study is funded by a $15,000 grant from Earthwatch Institute's Student Challenge Awards Program, making the two-week study among the first of its kind.
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3/07
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Brazilian Times.com - Framingham teachers travel to the Pantanal in Brazil. Read more on how teachers are going beyond traditional textbook methods and are educating students on real world issues. |
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3/07
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MetroWest Daily News, Miryam Wiley/columnist - How does one bring the forest into a modern American classroom? Can students who are far from the realities of natural habitats be sensitized to the need to preserve ecosystems all the way in South America? The answer to this seems suddenly quite clear: send the teachers to the forest. For more, visit Framingham teachers embrace the Brazilian Pantanal - where the teachers spent a bit over a week working closely with scientists from the Earthwatch Institute in the Brazilian Pantanal.
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3/07
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Glimpsing a Faraway World - FraminghamTAB - One of the fundamental challenges for teachers is to connect students with real world issues from the confines of a tiny classroom. Thanks to another grant from the CARLISLE Foundation, a third group of teachers will travel across the world to the Pantanal region of Brazil to study the endangered river otter. |
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3/07
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Earthwatch mentioned on NBC-TV's The TODAY Show, seen by 6 million
viewers, with a hearty recommendation by TODAY Show Travel Expert Peter.
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2/07
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VOASE0206 Explorations, February 2007 - "Earthwatch Institute students work with scientists on research projects throughout the world". Earthwatch offers people the chance to work with leading scientists in many different areas of the world on environmental projects.
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2/07
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KOMOTV, Seattle Washington -Teacher to Go on Trip of a Lifetime to the Arctic- After publishing an article about global warming and how to teach it, Jana Dean, 8th grade math teacher in Tumwater, Washington will get a up-close look at the effects of global warming. The Earthwatch Institute and the National Geographic Society contacted her and helped fund a grant to make her trip possible. She's going to the arctic to join researchers who will be measuring arctic ice and snow pack temperatures. View on the following: One Degree Climate Change, The Olympian - When Science Meets Controversy Head-On, and KGY Radio interview.
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2/07
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MSNBC - USA TODAY SHOW -Travel Expert Peter Greenberg Reports: How to have a meaningful vacation - Lions of Tsavo (Kenya) and Macaws of the Peruvian Amazon are just two examples of the many trips that the Earthwatch Institute offers. ...
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2/07
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Amherst Bulletin - Amherst, MA, Educator is off to Arctic Circle to study global warming. Fortescue, 38, is the director of education for the Earthwatch Institute in Maynard, an environment-focused organization whose goals are to study climate ...
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2/07
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Salisbury Post 02/25/07 "From Misenheimer to Madagascar": Luke Dollar talks about his Earthwatch project in Madagascar. |
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2/07
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Pulse of the Planet features Earthwatch project, Madagascar's Lemurs, with audio interviews with principal investigator, Dr. Summer Arrigo-Nelson, and a blog where she details her daily research. |
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1/07
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Yahoo News reported on Earthwatch project, South Africa's Brown Hyenas. In this Assignment Earth video, Earthwatch principal investigator, Dr. Dawn Scott talked about her research efforts and volunteers spoke of their experiences. |