RCAS Distinguished Explorer Award Celebratory Dinner

Expanding Awareness…..

Expanding awareness worldwide about Beloit native Roy Chapman Andrews

 

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The Roy Chapman Andrews Society Distinguished Explorer Award

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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.

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