| 04/13 |
Ecology Journal - Decreasing litter size of marmots over time: a life history response to climate change? |
| 06/12 |
Scientific American - Earthwatch referenced in a positive article on conservation plans to protect endangered Grevy's zebra in Kenya |
| 05/12 |
Current Biology Journal - Protected Areas, Protected Species? Science article profiling the work of Earthwatch scientists Dr Luke Dollar and Dr John Cigliano |
| 05/12 |
Ecology Journal - Cover image and article 'Revisiting the evolution of ecological specialization' from Dr. Lee Dyer's research on Earthwatch expedition Climate Change and Caterpillars |
| 05/12 |
BBC - Citizen scientists get to grips with Earthwatch moth survey in Southern England |
| 05/12 |
Third Sector - The HSBC Climate Partnership, featuring Earthwatch, wins Business Charity Award |
| 04/12 |
The Ecologist - Earthwatch scientists discuss if protected areas for wildlife really work |
| 04/12 |
Sky News - Iceland volcanoes could power British homes |
| 04/12 |
International Journal of Zoology - Citizen Science in the Caribbean |
| 03/12 |
The Wall Street Journal - Travel article features Ecuadorian Earthwatch expedition |
| 02/12 |
Davis Enterprise - Earthwatch volunteer inspired to launch Pens for Pokanong |
| 01/12 |
Endless Vacation - Join an Earthwatch expedition digging for dinosaur bones in Texas |
| 01/12 |
Banking on Sustainability - New film showcases Earthwatch’s award-winning work with HSBC |
| 01/12 |
WNBP Radio - Listen to Ed Wilson, Earthwatch President & CEO, speaking about our exciting new projects for 2012 |
| 01/12 |
Nature science journal - Earthwatch climate impact survey wraps up |
| 12/11 |
The Wall Street Journal - Best picks for volunteer travel in 2012 |
| 12/11 |
Guardian.co.uk - Rare Madagascan carnivore photographed by Earthwatch volunteer |
| 11/11 |
2011 International Green Awards - Earthwatch wins Best Green Employee Engagement Award |
| 10/11 |
StrategicRISK - Rising Temperature: The Risks of Climate Change to Business |
| 10/11 |
Guardian.co.uk - Earthwatch Debate, London: What should be the top environmental priority for the next 40 years? |
| 10/11 |
E&EM - Mining and biodiversity: towards best practice |
| 09/11 |
New Scientist - Death in dolphins: do they understand they are mortal? |
| 08/10 |
BBC News - Mangroves offer win-win opportunity |
| 08/10 |
Ghana News: Accra Mail - Establishing ecotourism in the Upper Guinean Forest with the Conservation of the White-necked Rockfowl bird |
| 08/10 |
AFAR (PDF) - Earthwatch's Macaws of the Peruvian Amazon featured in this two page story 'Winged Migrations' |
| 05/10 |
ABC (WLS-TV) - Caterpillars Teach Climate Change |
| 05/10 |
Gizmag - Earthwatch expeditions: 40 years of citizen science |
| 04/10 |
Marketwatch - Northrop Grumman Foundation's Earthwatch Educator Program Announces Scholarship Recipients |
| 04/10 |
Port Times Record - Ward Melville High School alumna up close and personal with volcano |
| 03/10 |
Harvard Gazette - Earthwatch comes to Allston |
| 03/10 |
Associated Content - Best Options for Eco-Friendly Vacations and Holidays |
| 03/10 |
Boston Globe - Natick teacher will videochat with class from Nova Scotia |
| 03/10 |
New York Times - Why we travel |
| 03/10 |
Samburu Medicinal Plants Photo Story - Crispin Zeeman joined Earthwatch in July 2007. In November 2009, he visited The Samburu Field Centre, in Kenya. |
| 02/10 |
Press Enterprise - Donors to send teachers on expeditions |
| 02/10 |
Sarasota Herald Tribune - Bottom-Up Climate Answers |
| 01/10 |
Times-Herald Record - Middletown teacher joins Earthwatch expedition |
| 1/10 |
WebCPA.com - Ernst & Young Gets Greener |
| 12/09 |
Associated Content - The Christmas I Learned to Snorkel and Swam for Global Warming |
| 11/09 |
National Geographic Adventure - "Climate Change at the Arctic's Edge" project was named one of the best volunteer opportunities for 2010 by National Geographic Adventure! |
| 10/09 |
Boston Globe - Scientists discover first vegetarian spider (with help from Earthwatch volunteers)! |
| 9/09 |
Johns Hopkins University - Read this terrific story written by Moria Robinson, a former SCAP student who participated in the Climate Change and Caterpillars expedition. The story—published in a Johns Hopkins University magazine—clearly communicates the power and potential of the SCAP (Student Challenge Awards Program) program. |
| 8/09 |
Chronicle of Philanthropy - We are thrilled that Earthwatch was featured as the "Face of Philanthropy" for this issue of the Chronicle of Philanthropy - the news resource for nonprofits. |
| 7/09 |
STLtoday.com Check out this great photo from a volunteer on the Meerkats expedition, which ended up in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
| 7/09 |
APP.com - Here's a very cool slide show explaining the technology being used on the Terrapins of Barnegat Bay expedition |
| 7/09 |
NJ.com - Read this excellent story about a recent teacher fellow, who was lucky enough to study dolphins and whales in the Bahamas |
| 7/09 |
Contra Costa Times - Our SCAP program got a lot of great attention this month. Here's just one example from the Contra Costa Times |
| 7/09 |
Planet Green - Want a life changing experience? Join an Earthwatch Project, just like Planet Green says here |
| 7/09 |
My Wonderful World blog - Enjoy this excellent interview with Fosa expert Luke Dollar |
| 6/09 |
Insidenova - Here's an excellent piece about our teacher fellow program (in this case funded by Northrop Grumman) |
| 6/09 |
Biohabitats.com - Many thanks to the folks at Biohabitats.com (LEAFLITTER newsletter) for a wonderfully comprehensive feature about Earthwatch. |
| 6/09 |
Macleans - Check out this fun piece, "More powerful than a book club," in Macleans, a Canadian news magazine. Earthwatch made one woman's dream of doing meaningful work in Africa come true! |
| 6/09 |
Did you catch the June issue of O, the Oprah magazine? Hope so, because Earthwatch was one of four organizations mentioned in the "Good to go: volunteer vacations" piece. |
| 6/09 |
Miami Herald - Here's a great piece from The Miami Herald about Earthwatch's SCAP program that featured a quote by our own Yoka Heijstek, too: "Fellowship coordinator Yoka Heijstek said the program seeks gifted students who think outside of the proverbial box. ''The projects are designed to have the students experience what it is to do science in the field,'' she said. ``That's something you can't learn from a textbook. You have to go out into the field and get dirty and sweaty.'' |
| 6/09 |
VPR - A group of students from Vermont Technical College recently returned from Costa Rica, visiting as part of a citizen science team who worked with six coffee farmers there, trying to form a cooperative to sell organic coffee." Listen to their story on Vermont Public Radio here! |
| 5/09 |
Experience Life - Warren Stortroen, who has participated in more than 55 Earthwatch expeditions, was featured in "Experience Life" magazine. |
| 5/09 |
NEA - Have fun exploring this great feature about volunteering on the National Education Assocation website. |
| 5/09 |
Toyota Connections - Former teen Earthwatcher (and still an Earthwatcher!) Hannah Graae was featured in this piece by Toyota Connections about "Vacations 2.0". |
| 5/09 |
My Central Jersey - A Dodge-supported teacher fellows made it into the New Brunswick (NJ) News. |
| 4/09 |
WRAL - A teacher fellow supported by HSBC in the Community succeeded in rousing her students' enthusiasm about science during her "Live from the Field" expedition. It's hard not to get excited about the students' enthusiasm on the evening news. |
| 4/09 |
Asian Week - We were thrilled to see loads of news pieces about this year's Wells Fargo-supported teacher fellows. |
| 4/09 |
Planet Green - Check out this fun piece on Planet Green, called 'For Exotic Earth day Escapes, Earthwatch Has It Covered'. |
| 4/09 |
Travel and Leisure - Earthwatch was featured as one of the "Best Save the Earth Trips" on Travel and Leisure.com. |
| 4/09 |
Green Living Project - Read a cool story about our cheetah project from the team behind the Green Living Project, who are touring around North America as we speak and sharing video stories of sustainability they captured in Africa last year. |
| 4/09 |
NBC Chicago - One of our teacher fellows who communicated "Live from the Field" while she was studying climate change in the Arctic was featured on the evening news in NBC Chicago. |
| 4/09 |
Time - Not only do you contribute directly to science research and help save the planet when you participate in an Earthwatch expedition but you often meet some really cool people along the way. As profiled in this Time Magazine piece online, called "Love on the Fly: Volunteer Vacations," sometimes you even meet "the ONE"! |
| 4/09 |
Travel and Leisure - Check out Earthwatch in this timely slideshow by Travel and Leisure called "Top Vacations for the Newly Unemployed"! |
| 3/09 |
FT.com - Check out this great feature in the Financial Times about the Elephants of Tsavo! The writer—who participated in an Earthwatch project to write the piece—powerfully concludes: “As some of us ponder how better to make the most of our diminishing money it is this style of holiday that may stand up, not just as a reason to pack our bags, but as a raison d’être.” |
| 2/09 |
Green Living Project - Earthwatch is excited to be a partner of the Green Living Project, which recently produced a video showcasing our Cheetahs project. The team is embarking on a "Sustainability Across Africa" tour in the US to showcase our project and volunteer opportunities, among others. In 2009, over 40 different multi-media events will be held across North America. Check out the current lecture tour schedule here: www.greenlivingproject.com/lecture. |
| 2/09 |
Global Traveler Magazine (PDF) - Earthwatch featured well in a great story called "A Double-edged Sword: understanding the mission can make the difference between beneficial voluntourism and misplaced altruism" in Global Traveler magazine-including the lead photograph of an Earthwatch volunteer! |
| 2/09 |
Connecticut Post (PDF) - Earthwatch was highlighted in a story in the Connecticut Post, which draws attention to "Immersion Travel USA," a travel book in which Earthwatch featured highly. |
| 2/09 |
PeterGreenberg.com - Check out this fun-to-read feature on the famed Peter Greenberg's website about an Earthwatch volunteer who studied the bottlenose dolphin in Greece. |
| 1/09 |
Pulse of the Planet - Earthwatch’s monkey project in Costa Rica—featuring scientist Tracie McKinney and called “Tracie See Monkey Do”—is the lead story on this month’s “Pulse of the Planet!” Check out all 12 stories here! |
| 1/09 |
Travel with a Challenge - Dorothy Conlo - Earthwatcher, Book author, and octogenarian adventure traveler (to name just a few attributes) - wrote a great article about Earthwatch's cheetah project for the Jan/Feb '09 issues of Travel with a Challenge web magazine. Check it out! |
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| 12/08 |
NationalGeographic.com (video) - Dr. Paul Sikkel, Earthwatch scientist on Reef Fish of the Virgin Islands, gives a fish a bath. |
| 12/08 |
BBCgreen.com - Dr. Rich Reading, principal investigator of Earthwatch's Wildlife of the Mongolian Steppe, was interviewed by Paul Allen of BBCgreen on his conservation efforts in Mongolia. |
| 11/08 |
Sudbury, MA - Wicked Local - Teacher studies caterpillars and conducts class over the internet on an Earthwatch Live From the Field fellowship. |
| 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! |
| 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”. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |