- Cesar Millan
Cesar Millan (born August 27, 1969) is a professional dog trainer (although in his words, he "trains people, rehabilitates dogs"). He is best known for his television series, "Dog Whisperer", which is in its third season (Sept. 2006) and airs on the "National Geographic Channel". He is also the co-author of a 2006 best selling book, "Cesar's Way". - Boyd Matson
Boyd Matson is the former anchor of "National Geographic Explorer" and a former co-anchor of NBC's "Weekend Today" program. He was also an NBC News correspondent in the 1980s, working mostly on news features. He now host the show "Wild Chronicles" on PBS. He lives in VA with his wife Betty Hudson and his two children. - Frans Lanting
Frans Lanting, (born 1951) was born in Rotterdam and is a Dutch nature photographer specializing in wildlife photography. Lanting emigrated to the United States after being educated in the Netherlands. He now lives in Santa Cruz, California and operates a studio and gallery, as well as a stock photography services. Lanting's wife Chris Eckstrom is a writer, editor, producer, and works on joint books of nature photography. - Steve McCurry
Photographer Steve McCurry is renowned for his evocative and moving photographs of Asia and its people. His career reached a turning point in the 1980s when, disguised in native garb, he crossed into Afghanistan after the Soviet invasion. And in 1984, while visiting an Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan, he took his famous "Afghan girl" photograph, which became a National Geographic icon after it was published on the cover of the June 1985 issue. - Chris Johns
Chris Johns is a photographer and currently Editor-in-Chief of "National Geographic Magazine". Born in Oregon in April 1951, He studied agriculture at Oregon State University and photojournalism at the University of Minnesota. Johns, who began his photography career as a staff member at "The Topeka Capital-Journal" (where he and Gerald Ford's daughter Susan Ford were the paper's two interns in 1975). - Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Yann Arthus-Bertrand was born in March 13, 1946 and is a photographer, journalist, reporter, businessman and environmentalist. At the age of 30 he moved to Kenya with his wife Anne to study lions in the Maasai Mara Reserve and discovered a unique way of capturing the beauty of the natural world, flying over the landscape [... ] - Sylvia Earle
Sylvia Alice Earle (born August 30, 1935 in Gibbstown, New Jersey) is an American oceanographer. She was chief scientist for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from 1990-1992. She is a "National Geographic" Explorer-in-Residence, sometimes called "Her Deepness" or "The Sturgeon General". Earle received a B.S. degree from Florida State University (1955), M.S. (1956) and PhD. from Duke University (1966). - Sam Abell
Since 1970 Sam Abell has been a fixture at National Geographic, having shot dozens of stories, authored award-winning books, and shown his work worldwide. ... Abell shares the excitement, intrigue, frustration, heartbreak, and joy of spending 35 years on assignment around the world for the world's most trusted magazine. - Richard Thompson
Richard Thompson is a cartoonist who has also worked as an illustrator. His cartoon "Richard's Poor Almanac" appears weekly (usually on Saturdays) in "The Washington Post" Style section, and his comic strip "Cul-de-Sac" appears on Sundays in the "The Washington Post Magazine". A compendium of his collected Almanac cartoons was published in 2005 by Emmis Books. - Paul Sereno
Paul Callistus Sereno (born October 11, 1957) is an American paleontologist who is the discoverer of several new dinosaur species on several continents. He has conducted excavations at sites as varied as Inner Mongolia, Argentina, Morocco and Niger. He is a professor at the University of Chicago and a National Geographic "explorer-in-residence." The son of a mailman, Paul grew up in Naperville, Illinois. - Mattias Klum
Mattias Klum (born 1968 in Uppsala) is a Swedish freelance photographer and film producer in natural history and culture subjects. Klum has had several wildlife documentaries shown on Swedish national TV. Among other publications, he has photographed for National Geographic, including three cover stories (in 1997 and 2001). He has published eight books, two of them available in English. - Jim Richardson
Jim Richardson (b. Belleville, Kansas, US, 1947) is an American photojournalist working primarily for the National Geographic Society as well as a social documentary photographer recognized for his explorations of small-town life. Richardson's first story for National Geographic magazine appeared in 1984. Since then, he has become one of the magazine's most productive contemporary contributing photographers, producing more than 20 stories. - David Quammen
David Quammen (1948 -) is an award-winning science, nature and travel writer whose work has appeared in publications such as "National Geographic", "Outside", "Harper's", "Rolling Stone", and "The New York Times Book Review". He wrote a column, called "Natural Acts", for "Outside" magazine for fifteen years. Quammen lives in Bozeman, Montana. - Jim Brandenburg
Jim Brandenburg (1945-) is an environmentalist and internationally renowned nature photographer based near Ely, Minnesota. His extensive career includes over 10 years as a newspaper photojournalist, over 25 years as a contract photographer for the National Geographic Society, and commissions from such groups as the United States Postal Service and the BBC. - Paul Salopek
Paul Salopek is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning writer. Salopek was raised in central Mexico. He has reported for the "Chicago Tribune" since 1996, writing about Africa, the Balkans, Central Asia and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He worked for "National Geographic" from 1992-1995, visiting Chad, Sudan, Senegal, Niger, Mali, and Nigeria. The October 1995 cover story for "National Geographic" was Salopek's piece on Africa's mountain gorillas. - Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester, OBE, is a British author and journalist. Winchester studied geology at St Catherine's College, Oxford before working in Africa and on offshore oil rigs. He then spent a twenty-year career as a foreign correspondent for "The Guardian", winning several awards. He has more recently written for such publications as "Condé Nast Traveler", "Smithsonian Magazine", … - Peter Hessler
Peter Hessler is an American writer and journalist. He is currently the Beijing correspondent for "The New Yorker" and a contributor to "National Geographic". He has previously written for the "Atlantic Monthly", the "New York Times", the "Boston Globe", the "Wall Street Journal", and other American newspapers and magazines. He is best known for his two books on China: "River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze" (2001), … - Peter Arnett
Peter Gregg Arnett, ONZM (born November 13, 1934 in Riverton, New Zealand) is a New Zealand-American journalist. Arnett worked for "National Geographic" magazine, and later for various television networks, most notably CNN. He is well known for his coverage of war, including the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. He was awarded the 1966 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for his work in Vietnam, where he was present from 1962 to 1975, … - Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein (pronounced "Bern-steen") (April 4, 1922 - August 18, 2004) was an Academy and two-time Golden Globe award winning American film score composer. Bernstein was born in New York City. During his childhood he performed professionally as a dancer and an actor and won several prizes for his painting. He gravitated toward music by his own choice at the age of twelve, at which time he was given a scholarship in piano by Henriette Michelson, … - Luis Marden
Luis Marden (born Annibale Luigi Paragallo was an American photographer, explorer, writer, filmmaker, diver, navigator, and linguist who worked for "National Geographic Magazine". He worked as a photographer and reporter before serving as chief of the "National Geographic" foreign editorial staff. He was a pioneer in the use of color photography, both on land and underwater, and also made many discoveries in the world of science. - Dick Smith
Dick Smith AO (born Richard Harold Smith on 18 March 1944, is an Australian businessman and aviator. He is commonly known for his qualities as an Australian patriot, and philanthropist. He gained his amateur radio licence at the age of 17 and holds callsign VK2DIK. In 1968, he founded a small electronics retailer Dick Smith Electronics. In 1982, he sold the business to Woolworths for $25 million, … - Thomas B. Allen
Thomas B. Allen 's writings range from articles for National Geographic Magazine to books on espionage and military history. His latest book is Declassified: 50 Top-Secret Documents That Changed History , published by the National Geographic Society in cooperation with the International Spy Museum. He is also the author of young adult books for National Geographic: Remember Pearl Harbor, Remember Valley Forge, George Washington , Spymaster, and Harriet Tubman , Secret Agent. . - Joel Achenbach
Joel Achenbach is a staff writer for "The Washington Post" and the author of six books, including "The Grand Idea", "Captured by Aliens", and three compilations of his syndicated newspaper column "Why Things Are" (now defunct). He wrote a monthly science column for "National Geographic" magazine and has been a commentator on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition". - Michael O'Brien
Michael O’Brien is an American photographer noted for his portraiture. O’Brien took up photography at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville where he became a photographer for the student newspaper. After graduation, O'Brien went to work as a staff photographer for The Miami News, where he eventually won two Robert F. Kennedy Journalism awards. O’Brien then moved to New York City where he began photographing people for Life, Geo, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, … - Rick Smolan
A former "TIME", "LIFE" and "National Geographic" photographer, Rick Smolan has spent two decades finding ways to place himself and his projects directly in the path of the converging worlds of photography, design, publishing, and technology. Smolan created the best-selling "Day in the Life" photography series and is CEO of Against All Odds Productions, … - Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackerman (born October 7 1948) is an American author, poet, and naturalist known best for her work "A Natural History of the Senses." Her writing style, referring to her best-selling natural history books, can best be described as a blend of poetry, colloquial history, and easy-reading science. She has taught at various universities, including Columbia and Cornell, and her essays regularly appear in distinguished popular and literary journals. - Andrew Cockburn
Andrew Cockburn (pronounced) is an Irish journalist who has lived in the United States for many years. Born in London in 1947, Cockburn grew up in County Cork, Ireland. His father was the well-known socialist author and journalist Claud Cockburn. Andrew Cockburn was educated at Glenalmond College, Perthshire, and Worcester College, Oxford. - Colin Angus
Colin is no stranger to adventure. As a teenager he embarked on a five year mostly solo offshore sailing journey. He then went on to complete the first descent of world’s mightiest river, the Amazon, by raft, followed by the first descent of Mongolia’s Yenisey River. A national best-selling author, Colin has penned three books chronicling his adventures. - Karin Muller
Karin Muller (born 1967) is an Swiss-born author, filmmaker, photographer, and adventurer. Muller set out in the 1990s to travel the world's historic highways. She is an expert lecturer on Japan for the National Geographic Society, has been featured on National Public Radio and Minnesota Public Radio's Marketplace, and her writing appears in National Geographic and Traveler magazines. Her first expedition took her to the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Vietnam, … - Aaron Huey
Aaron Huey (born 1975) is a photographer from Seattle who is most widely known for his walk across America with his dog Cosmo. The journey lasted 154 days and covered 3,349 miles. Huey stayed with strangers he met along the way, averaging around 30 miles a day, with a record day (according to his journals) of 46 miles. His online journals chronicle his journey. His photography appears in "Smithsonian", "National Geographic", "The New Yorker", … - Joseph Rock
Joseph Francis Charles Rock was an Austrian-American explorer, geographer, linguist and botanist. He was born in Vienna, Austria but moved to Honolulu, Hawaii in 1907, where he became an authority on the flora of these islands. From 1922–1949 he spent most of his time studying the flora, peoples and languages of southwest China, mainly in Yunnan, Sichuan, southwest Gansu and eastern Tibet. Many Asian plants that he collected can be seen in the Arnold Arboretum. - Peter Turnley
Peter Turnley is an American photojournalist. Currently a contributing editor/photographer at Harper's and represented by Corbis, from 1984-2001 he was a contract photographer for Newsweek,where his photographs were featured on Newsweek's cover more than 40 times. Turnley has covered nearly every major news event of international significance in the last twenty years. He has photographed world conflicts in the Balkans (Bosnia), Somalia, Rwanda, South Africa, Chechnya, … - Ron Miller
Ron Miller (b. May 8, 1947 - Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an artist and author who lives and works near Fredericksburg, Virginia in the United States of America. His current work is primarily the writing and illustration of books specializing in astronomical, astronautical and science fiction subjects for young adults. Miller holds a BFA from Columbus, Ohio, College of Art and Design. He worked as a commercial artist and designer for six years, … - Helen Fisher
Helen Fisher is an anthropology professor and human behavior researcher at the Rutgers University and is one of the major researchers in the field of interpersonal chemistry. Prior to becoming a research professor at Rutgers University, she was a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. By many accounts, including her own, Fisher is considered the world’s leading expert on the topic of love. - Helen Thayer
Born in New Zealand, Helen Thayer is the first woman to solo to the magnetic North Pole. She has done the following: * Traveled alone to the magnetic North Pole * Walked across the Sahara Desert, 2,400 miles * Walked across the Mongolian Gobi Desert, 1,500 miles * Kayaked two remote Amazon Rivers and photographed 3 species unknown to science, … - Donato Giancola
Donato Giancola (born 1967) is a multiple award winning American artist specializing in science fiction and fantasy illustration. - Verlyn Klinkenborg
Verlyn Klinkenborg (born 1952, Boulder, CO) is an American non-fiction author. As of 1997, he has been a member of the editorial board for "The New York Times". His books include "The Rural Life", "Making Hay", "The Last Fine Time", and "Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile". He has published articles in "The New Yorker", "Harper's Magazine", "Esquire", "National Geographic", "Mother Jones", … - M. King Hubbert
Marion King Hubbert (October 5, 1903 - October 11, 1989) was a geophysicist who worked at the Shell research lab in Houston, Texas. He made several important contributions to geology and geophysics, most notably the Hubbert curve and Hubbert peak theory (or peak oil), with important political ramifications. He was often referred to as "M. King Hubbert" or "King Hubbert". - Nathaniel Lande
Nathaniel Lande, born of Canadian parents, is an award winning journalist, author, and filmmaker with a multifaceted career spanning several decades. He is the author of ten books including the critically acclaimed "Cricket", and was the creative force behind TIME Incorporated during his tenure. - Harm de Blij
Harm Jan de Blij (born Oct 9 1935, Rotterdam) is a Dutch-born American geographer. Author, professor and television personality, Harm de Blij for seven years was the geography editor on ABC's "Good Morning America." In 1996 he joined NBC News as Geography Analyst, appearing mostly on MSNBC. He was writer of and commentator for the original PBS Series "The Power of Place." He is a former editor of National Geographic magazine and the author of several books, …
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