Monday, November 7, 2005 NEW YORK : "Wings World Quest - 2005 Award Winners"
Time: 6:30pm-8:45pm
Open to: Public
Time Details: 6:30 PM Reception 7:00 PM Presentation
Location:The Explorers Club 46 East 70th Street New York, NY 10021
Detailed Description:
Wings Women of Discovery Awards were
established by Wings Trust to identify and honor outstanding women who have made
and are making significant contributions to world knowledge through
exploration.
Tonight's event features a screening of interviews with the 2005 Wings Women of Discovery Winners, which aired on CNN. Featuring:
Sue Hendrickson best known for finding the largest Tyrannosaurus rex that was named Sue in her honor also dives on ancient wrecks off the Philippine Islands, searches for and maps wrecks off Cuba, is a principal archaeological diver on the submerged ancient city of Herakleon in Egypt, hunts for fossil whales in the windswept deserts of Peru, and searches for dinosaurs in Wyoming.
Nathalie Cabrol a planetary geologist at SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute and NASA Ames Research Center specializes in the search for water on Mars. Cabrol leads the Licancabur Expeditions to the highest lake on Earth 19523 ft) on the boundary of Chile and Bolivia where the conditions are analogous to those of ancient Martian lakes: low oxygen, intense UV radiation, and low atmospheric pressure.
Ana Pinto, Professor at the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University and director of The Sopeña Archaeological Project, studies extinct cave bears and prehistoric humans. In 2002 her excavations in Northern Spain. revealed an occupation sequence ranging from the first arrival of modern humans into Europe to Neanderthals and probably further back to the time of Homo erectus.
Sabriye Tenberken a linguist in Mongolian, Chinese, and modern and classical Tibetan c translated Tibetan into Braille and then established Tibet’s only school for the blind in Lhasa. Although bolind Tenberken rode horseback throughout Tibet, looking for blind children to bring to her school and teaches the students how to climb in the Himalayas.
Marianne Hederstrom Greenwood, spent decades living with, photographing and writing about indigenous people in the Americas, the Pacific Islands, Papua, and Asia. Her work is housed at the Ethnographical Museum in Stockholm and at the Picasso Museum in Antibes.
Following the screening, Co-Chairs of the 2006 Wings Women of Discovery Awards, Annie Doubilet and Suzi Zetkus, will announce the 2006 Winners.
Tonight's event features a screening of interviews with the 2005 Wings Women of Discovery Winners, which aired on CNN. Featuring:
Sue Hendrickson best known for finding the largest Tyrannosaurus rex that was named Sue in her honor also dives on ancient wrecks off the Philippine Islands, searches for and maps wrecks off Cuba, is a principal archaeological diver on the submerged ancient city of Herakleon in Egypt, hunts for fossil whales in the windswept deserts of Peru, and searches for dinosaurs in Wyoming.
Nathalie Cabrol a planetary geologist at SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute and NASA Ames Research Center specializes in the search for water on Mars. Cabrol leads the Licancabur Expeditions to the highest lake on Earth 19523 ft) on the boundary of Chile and Bolivia where the conditions are analogous to those of ancient Martian lakes: low oxygen, intense UV radiation, and low atmospheric pressure.
Ana Pinto, Professor at the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University and director of The Sopeña Archaeological Project, studies extinct cave bears and prehistoric humans. In 2002 her excavations in Northern Spain. revealed an occupation sequence ranging from the first arrival of modern humans into Europe to Neanderthals and probably further back to the time of Homo erectus.
Sabriye Tenberken a linguist in Mongolian, Chinese, and modern and classical Tibetan c translated Tibetan into Braille and then established Tibet’s only school for the blind in Lhasa. Although bolind Tenberken rode horseback throughout Tibet, looking for blind children to bring to her school and teaches the students how to climb in the Himalayas.
Marianne Hederstrom Greenwood, spent decades living with, photographing and writing about indigenous people in the Americas, the Pacific Islands, Papua, and Asia. Her work is housed at the Ethnographical Museum in Stockholm and at the Picasso Museum in Antibes.
Following the screening, Co-Chairs of the 2006 Wings Women of Discovery Awards, Annie Doubilet and Suzi Zetkus, will announce the 2006 Winners.
Reservation Notes: No advanced reservations. Tickets are sold at the door on a first come, first served basis, beginning at 6pm. Contact Email: events@explorers.org
Posted: Ven. - Octobre 28, 2005 at 05:59 PM
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