Dr. Sylvia Earle to accept BLUE's Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Ocean Advocacy
(MAY 2009)
Dr. Sylvia Earle, widely recognized as one of the world's most
influential ambassadors for the oceans, will attend the festival to accept BLUE's lifetime achievement award.
Earle has authored more than 175 publications, received more than
100 national and international awards including Time magazine's first
"hero for the planet" in 1998, the prestigious TED Prize in 2009, and was instrumental in adding the oceans to Google Earth 5.0. A botanist,
biologist, conservationist & entrepreneur, She has transcended many boundaries in her career, including an untethered walk on the sea floor at a lower depth than any other
human being. Dr. Earle served as chief scientist for NOAA from 1990-1992
& is currently a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. Her legacy will be further celebrated by the renaming of this lifetime achievement award in her honor.