Visiting artist Thom Ross and Ann Bausum, board member of the Roy Chapman Andrews Society, serve up birthday cake during the Beloit celebration of his birth.

Expanding Awareness…..

Expanding awareness worldwide about Beloit native Roy Chapman Andrews

 

The Roy Chapman Andrews Society Distinguished Explorer Award

Roy Chapman Andrews Award Recipients

• Sylvia Earle (2010) has led more than 400 expeditions worldwide involving in excess of 7000 hours underwater in connection with her research.

• Paul Sereno (2009) has hunted fossils on five continents. He has discovered dinosaurs and super-crocodiles that ate dinosaurs.

• Mark Moffett (2008) Beloit native and ecologist, who combines science, exploration, and photography in a unique blend of discovery and story-telling.

• Lonnie and Ellen Mosley-Thompson (2007) scientific “ice hunters” who examine the climate and environmental history of the Earth through the analysis of glacial core samples.

• Steve Squyres (2006) principal investigator for the Mars Exploration Rover mission whose presentations included live, televised transmissions from Mars.

• Robert Ballard (2005) discoverer of the RMS Titanic and founder of the Jason Project, an educational tool enabling students to watch live transmissions from underwater robot explorers.

• Mark Plotkin (2004) ethnobotanist and bio-prospector for new medicines developed from the plants and practices of traditional healers of the Amazon jungle.

• Michael J. Novacek (2003) leader of the first Western expedition to the Gobi Desert since Andrews’ discovery of the first dinosaur egg fossil there in 1922.