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Michele Hall (Arts)Michele has co-produced or produced 8 award-winning television documentaries, including several episodes of the PBS series Nature, a National Geographic Special, and the five-part PBS series Secrets of the Ocean Realm, she is probably better known for her IMAX films....... MORE |
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Michael A. Lang (Science)
Michael A. Lang was recruited by the Office of the Under Secretary for Science in January 1990 to direct the Smithsonian’s pan-institutional Scientific Diving Program. Lang served as OUSS Executive Officer for Scientific Programs (2001 – 2002) and as Director of the Smithsonian Marine Science Network since 1998. He provided senior executive staff support to the Smithsonian Science Commission (May 2001 – January 2003), served as Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative to National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Public Administration Smithsonian Science Studies (June - October 2002) and as OUSS symposium chair for Smithsonian at the Poles: Contributions to International Polar Year Science (May 2007), Smithsonian Marine Science (November 2007), coordinator of Tropical Extinction Symposium (January 2009), and Symposium Co-Host and International Board Member of the Antarctic Treaty Summit 50th Anniversary, Smithsonian Institution (November 2009)...... MORE |
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Paul Humann (Sports and Education)Paul’s work established visual identification criteria for many marine animals. To assure scientific accuracy long hours of observation, documentation, cataloguing and corresponding with dozens of taxonomic marine scientists were essential steps in a long process. In many instances picture/voucher specimen collection was required to make positive identifications. As a result, many of his pictures were the first ever published of living species in their natural habitat..... MORE |
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Hillary Hauser (Distinguished Service)Hillary Hauser is co-founder and executive director of Heal the Ocean, an internationally recognized citizens’ action group in Santa Barbara, California. The formation of this 3,000-member group is the culmination of the 40-plus years Hillary has been working in, on, under, around and for the ocean, including being on-staff of Skin Diver Magazine in the late 1960s and working as a publicist for DEMA during DEMA’s earliest days...... MORE |
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