WINGS HONORS the 2010 WOMEN OF DISCOVERY

VANISHING TRADITIONS AND COMMUNICATION WITH AND WITHIN THE PLANT AND ANIMAL WORLD

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For the 8th year, WINGS WorldQuest will honor the accomplishments of visionary women who are pushing the boundaries of knowledge to help us understand the complex issues we face today.  The Women of Discovery Awards recognize excellence in exploration and discovery in all areas of field research and environmental conservation.  

Meet the 2010 Woman of Discovery Award winners: 

 Carol Beckwith, WOD Lifetime Achievement Awardee. Degree in Painting and Photography, School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Goucher College, Maryland. Along with co-award winner Angela Fisher, the two have spent over 30 years recording fast-disappearing cultures and traditions across more than 40 countries and over 150 African cultures.

 

 

 Susan Dudley, 2010 WOD Earth Awardee. PhD in Ecology and Evolution. Dudley discovered plant kin recognition following research on how plants change their shape and biomass allocation in the presence of other plants. She has worked in various parts of North America.

 

 

 

  

Angela Fisher, 2010 WOD Lifetime Achievement Awardee. Degree in Social Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia. Along with co-award winner Carol Beckwith, the two have spent over 30 year recording fast-disappearing cultures and traditions across more than 40 countries and over 150 African cultures.

   

Kate Harris, 2010 WOD Field Research Awardee. M.Phil. History of Science, M.Sc. Earth and Planetary Sciences. Harris has biked the Silk Road through Xinjiang and Tibet, traveled to all seven continents to perform science, and works to utilize science as a peacekeeping tool in contested natural areas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Meet the 2010 WINGS Elected Fellows: 

 Diana Beresford-Kroeger, 2010 WINGS Fellow. Botany, Medical Biochemistry, Organic and Nuclear Chemistry, Surgery. Beresford-Kroeger works to synthesize aborigional healing, Western medicine, and botany, and discovered cathodoluminescence under electron bombardment.

 

 

Nina Jablonski, 2010 WINGS Fellow.  PhD in Anthropology. Discoverer of the first fossil chimpanzee, Jablonski has performed paleontological field expeditions in China, Nepal, Pakistan, Kenya, and Tanzania. She has also produced significant work on the evolution of human skin color.

 

  

 

 Rosemarie Keough, 2010 WINGS Fellow. HBA in Business Administration. A photographer and private-press publisher, Keough has captured images from around the world, including Antarctica, the Arctic, Israel, Egypt, California, the Pacific Northwest’s Inside Passage, and much more.

 

 

 

 

 

 Aimee Morgana, 2010 WINGS Fellow. MFA in Art. An artist, teacher, and researcher in interspecies communication, Morgana and her parrot N’Kisi have embarked on a journey of "partnership research" to gain greater understanding of how animals may think.

 

 

 

 

 

 Alexandra Morton, 2010 WOD Sea Awardee. BSc. In Biology. Morton began her studies in British Columbia focusing on orca (killer whales), but transitioned over to combating the detrimental effects of careless fish farming. Her research helped her to win a case against the government and fish farmers in the BC Supreme Court.

 

 

 Naomi Pierce, 2010 WINGS Fellow. PhD in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. Pierce focuses her research on behavioral ecology and the evolution of species interactions, including the discovery that ants as a whole diversified at the same time as flowering plants.

 

  

 

 Andrea Polli, 2010 WINGS Fellow. Master of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A digital media artist and teacher, Polli has brought her recording equipment around the world to study sounds as a method of gaining greater understanding of the natural world.

 

 

 

 Jill Tarter, 2010 WINGS Fellow. Bachelor of Engineering Physics, Cornell University; PhD in Astronomy, UC Berkeley. Tarter, the Director of the Center for SETI Research, has spent her life pursuing signals from distant technologies at radio telescopes around the globe.