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Dr Sylvia Earle
"The destructive behaviour of the human species has led to a dramatic decline in fish populations, the destruction of coral reefs and degradation of our shores. What we must do is encourage a sea change in attitude, one that acknowledges that we are a part of the living world, not apart from it."
 Renowned US oceanographer and
environmentalist, Dr. Sylvia Earle is Executive Director of Conservation International's Global
Marine Division and Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society.
She also serves on various boards, foundations and committees relating to marine research, policy and conservation, including the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Duke University Marine Laboratory, World Wildlife Fund, and The World Resources Institute.
Dr. Earle received her B.S. from Florida State University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University, and also holds numerous honorary degrees.
She has pioneered research on marine ecosystems and has led or participated in more than 50 expeditions representing 6,000 hours underwater, including a record-setting solo descent to 3,000 feet in a submersible craft. She also holds a depth record for solo diving (1000 meters). In 1970, Dr. Earle led a team of women aquanauts who lived underwater for two weeks in an expedition known as Tektite II, Mission 6.
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•Leading marine biologist urges world to stop eating fish, ABC Pacific Beat, 26 October 2005, an interview with Dr. Sylvia Earle.
Listen to the interview
• Why
we shouldn’t eat the dinosaurs of the deep, an interview with Dr. Earle, DSCC feature, 27 September 2005
• Conservation International
• More about Sylvia Earle, Academy of Achievement Biography
• La Dama de las Profundidades (The Lady of the Deep), an article appearing in La Opinion, a newspaper from Coruna, Galicia, Spain (in Spanish).
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From 1980 to 1984 she served on the President's Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere and in 1990 was appointed Chief Scientist of the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), where she served until 1992.
Concerned to raise public awareness of the damage being done to the aquasphere by pollution and environmental degradation, Earle is the author of more than 130 scientific and popular publications, including the National Geographic Atlas of the Ocean and the 1995 book Sea Change, in which she argues against the use of deep sea bottom trawlers that destroy habitats and sweep up non-target fish in the process.
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