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High Rez Photos, Suitable for Printed Media, Authorized by Dawn Wright and/or Esri

Challenger Deep Photo Albums

Very-Extended, In-Depth Interview Transcripts

With astronaut Kathy Sullivan
HistoryMakers/ScienceMakers (leading digital repository for the Black experience)

Short professional bio | Full CV | Online Videos

Selected PODCASTS/Written Interviews/Essays/Online Profiles

The Courage to Escape (from academia to Esri Chief Scientist)

Audacious with Chion Wolf, Connecticut NPR, "What it's like at the bottom of the world with Dr. 'Deepsea Dawn' Wright" (2024) podcast
Yale Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Sustainability Initiative Profile (2024)
Oceanography Special Issue biosketch (2023/2024)

My road cycling history on Quick Brown Foxes: Chapter 17 with Ayesha McGowan, the 1st ever African-American woman pro road cyclist
NPR Short Wave (2023)
The Science "Pawdcast" (2023)
BioLogos Podcast: A Divine Abyss (2023)
WINGS WorldQuest Women of Discovery Q&A (2023)
Important, Not Important podcasts, The Dive Into Challenger Deep | Best Of: Is the Ocean Running Out of Oxygen? Is That Bad? (2023)
Geographers Without Borders: Women in GIS Podcast (2023)
Start to Finish Motherhood (2023)

Initial Challenger Deep Media Coverage (2022)
Phil Ferro, Channel 7 New Miami, Weather or Not Podcast - 1st African American Woman to reach the Pacific Ocean's Depths (2022)
Greenbiz 350 Podcast: Episode 338: Women raise voices at VERGE 22
Esri Canada Geographical Thinking Podcast - A conversation with Esri's Chief Scientist (2022)
Earth + Humans Podcast w/Prof. Trisalyn Nelson, UCSB Geography Spatial Pattern Analysis & Research (SPAR) Lab - Ethics, Empathy, and Equity in GIScience (2022)
Investors Business Daily Profile - How a Seasick Scientist Turned into a Global Ocean Expert (2022)
NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries Black History Month Salute (2022)

National Geographic Education intervew: "We're a Young Explorer and a Scientist, and These Are Our Ocean Stories. What's Yours?" (2021)
Meteorological Technology International interview: How ESRI is supporting the UN Decade of Ocean Science" (2021)
Environmental Professionals Radio podcast, "Deep Sea Discovery with Dr. Dawn Wright," Episode 58, National Association of Environmental Professionals (NAEP) (2021)
Kathy Sullivan Explores Podcast: The Courage to Step Out (2021)
Appearance in South Florida PBS episode of the series "Changing Seas" on Alvin Submersible (2021)
The Oceanography Society - ocean data science (2021)
"I Was a Kid" bio comic by Karen Romano Young, see also IWasaKid.com (2021)

NatureServe Conservation Conversations (career, mapping biodiversity, Legos) (2020)
Long Beach Post Interview - including thoughts on diversity (2020)
AAAS Member Spotlight - including thoughts on diversity (2020)
#BlackinMarineScience (2020)
Microsoft Protecting our Planet: Committing to Biodiversity Launch (2020)
Esri & The Science of Where podcast: Earth Day in a Time of Pandemic (2020)
Esri & The Science of Where podcast: Our Ocean, Our Future (2020)
Esri & The Science of Where podcast: Climate Change: Science, Solutions, Hope (2020)
Esri & The Science of Where podcast: Toward Sustainable Prosperity in Business and Government (2020)
Esri & The Science of Where podcast: Climate Change is Here and Now (2020)
Esri & The Science of Where podcast: Why Exploration Could be the Key to Saving our Planet (2020)
Maps as Stories: A Seafloor-Mapping Celebration Honoring Marie Tharp webinar (2020) | Related blog post from EGU
Called to Science - faith-based focus (unaware of it until 2020)

Esri Australia Interviews, Talks, and Articles (2019)
The Treasure Map That Led Me to the Bottom of the Sea, City Lab, The Atlantic - women-in-science focus (2019)
A Theology of Hustle interview with Pastor Currey Blandford, Wheaton, IL - faith-based focus (2019)
AGU Centennial (AGU 100) StoryCorps podcast, "It's not data science, it's just science." Interview with Dawn Wright and Mark Parsons (2019)

AGU Third Pod from the Sun, Episode 11 - Deepsea Drilling (2018)
Important, Not Important podcast, Is the Ocean Running Out of Oxygen? Is That Bad? (2018)

Digital Resilience, Lost in the Stacks (the world's only research library rock-n-roll ihow), Georgia Tech (2017)
Symbiosis: Stories About [Science] Teamwork podcast (13:36 to end), The Story Collider, recorded in San Francisco, CA - including thoughts on diversity (2017)
Nature News (2017)
BBC Click (2017)

Meet the Extraordinary Women Making Maps Today, City Lab, The Atlantic (2016)
Women at the Forefront of Innovation at Esri (2016)
Advice & Inspiration for Women in Science (2016)
Smart Disruption, Unconscious Bias, & Beyond the Ivory Tower: Dispatches from the 2016 Women in Science Summit (2016)
KQED Feature on Gender Bias in Science (2016)

Hidden Lives of Humpbacks (2015, my student)
Where the Wild Whales Are (2014, my student)

ECO Magazine (2014)
Harvard Design Magazine (2014)

HistoryMakers/ScienceMakers (2013)
Diving into Esri's Ocean and Natural Science Initiatives (2012)
Joining Esri (2011)
9 1/2 Questions posed by The Atlantic (2011)
Profile for WS 320, Gender and Technology Course (2008)
Terra Magazine (2007)
Women Exploring the Oceans: Women Oceanographers (2000-2004, pdf)
OSU College of Science Record (2002, pdf)
Corvallis Macintosh Users Group (2006, pdf)
AAAS Science magazine (2005, pdf, reference to Univ of Oregon is a TYPO!!)
The Oceanography Society special issue (2005, pdf)
OSU Barometer (student newspaper, 2004, pdf)
Oregonian newspaper feature (2002, pdf)
MarineCareers.net (1999-present)

Online Videos

November 2023: "The Dive of a Lifetime to the Deepest Place on Earth," Richard A. Marston Distinguished Lecture in Geography
June 2023: World Ocean Day LinkedIn Livestream: Mapping Microplastics to Advance Ocean Health

Digital Resilience in the 21st Century

January 2023: "Ocean Exploration Day: Q&A with Don Walsh and Dawn Wright," Ocean Discovery League Special Webinar

October 2022: VERGE 22 Climate Tech Keynote Panel | Snippet | Sidebar Interview
October 2022: Greenbiz 350 Podcast Episode 338: Women raise voices at VERGE 22
October 2022: VERGE 22 summary article in Greenbiz
October 2022: AccuWeather Feature - What's it Like Mapping the Deepest Parts of the Ocean?
September 2022: CBS Mornings Feature - Pushing the Limits (first Black person to deepest known spot on Earth) | Preview
September 2022: NBC LX News Interview - First Black Person Deepest-Known Part of the Earth
August 2022: Caladan Oceanic/Verola Media YouTube Film - The New Deeps (Challenger Deep Expedition)
June/July 2022: BIMS TV (Black in Marine Science) YouTube episode - Deepsea Dawn Takes on Challenger Deep
April 2022: "The Geographic Approach to Our Ocean, Our Future," NOAA Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping Seminar Series in association with the multi-agency and White House National Ocean Mapping, Exploration, and Characterization (NOMEC) Council, virtual from Washington, DC, access recording.

March 2021: "A Perspective on Ocean Exploration," Plenary Video, 2022 National Ocean Exploration Forum - Ocean Exploration: Blueprint 2032, virtual from Austin, TX.
March 2021: First Dive in Alvin (animated), Plenary Video, 2022 Ocean Sciences Meeting, virtual from Honolulu.
November 2021: "Our Planet... Our Future..." 2021 Esri Ocean, Weather, and Climate GIS Forum
October 2021: "Our Ocean, Our Future," Global Climate Action Symposium Keynote Address, Georgia Tech University Global Change Program, Virtual (14:40 to 1:05:44).
October 2021: "Linking Evidence and Policy in Species Conservation" [Dawn at 21:31], Half Earth Day Virtual Panel.
October 2021: "Identifying Critical Technology & Innovation Gaps,"UNESCO Conference: Identifying Critical Science Gaps at Marine World Heritage Sites, Virtual from Paris, France.
September 2021: "BIMS DIVES into Ocean Mapping & GIS with Dr. Dawn Wright," Black in Marine Science (BIMS) DIVES, Virtual, livestreamed and recorded.
September 2021: "Dive In with Dawn Wright," Ocean Elders DIVE IN series with Liz Taylor and Sylvia Earle, Virtual, livestreamed and recorded.
August 2021: "Scientific Storytelling with StoryMaps," Futurism Isn't a Bad Word: Uplifting Insights into Science for Your Storytelling Webinar, Writers Guild of America West as facilitated by The Science & Entertainment Exchange of the National Academy of Sciences, moderated by Spiro Skentzos, TV and feature writer, w/Jaime Marach, Abzena Biotechnology; Randii Wessen, NASA JPL; Juston Johnson, Stanford Computer Science), livestreamed and recorded.
August 2021: "Storytelling for Ocean Science and Sustainability," 2021 ArcGIS StoryMaps Challenge for Restoring Our Ocean Webinar
July 2021: Several segments for the Esri User Conference UC Central Live + the Esri UC Science Symposium
June 2021: Appearance in South Florida PBS episode of the series "Changing Seas" on Alvin Submersible
June 2021: "Meet-and-Great, Time Slot 3 (Pacific), Virtual Early Career Ocean Professionals (V.ECOP) Day 2021," UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, moderated by Andrew Kornblatt, OnlineOceansSymposium + OceanSciRadio, livestreamed on YouTube.
May 2021: "Coralpalooza Women in STEM Panel," DEEP RESTORATION: Youth Rising in Equity + Coral Science, Heirs to Our Oceans Webinar, moderated by Catalina Martinez, NOAA; w/ Elva Escobar, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; Samantha Davis, UCSB; Dijanna Figueroa, Lucas Scholars STEM Program). Recording on DropBox.
May 2021: Session 2A, 2021 Ocean Visions Summit, "US Pilot Program: A Shared Roadmap for Equitable Coastal Solutions to Climate," moderated by Laura Engeman, Scripps and CA Sea Grant; w/ Craig McLean, NOAA; Van Johnson, Mayor of Savannah, GA; Kelly Hereid, Liberty Mutual; Serge Dedina, Mayor of Imperial Beach, CA, livestreamed and recorded.
May 2021: "Ocean Stewards: An Explorers Club 50 Speaker Series Event,", Explorers Club, moderated by Joe Rohde, former head of Disney Imagineering and Disney World's Animal Kingdom in Florida; w/ Inti Keith, Charles Darwin Foundation, Galapagos marine Reserve; Michel "Goff" Strogoff, Environmental Filmmaker + Photographer, Madagascar; Margaret "Maggie" O'Leary Amsler, U of Alabama at Birmingham).
May 2021: "Women in STEM Distinguished Panel," 2021 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (Regeneron ISEF), Invited Panelist (moderated by Nancy Shute, Editor-in-Chief Science News; w/ Dapo Ajayi, Johnson & Johnson; Heidi Williams, Stanford; Huda Zoghbi, Baylor College of Medicine). Recording forthcoming
April 2021: "52 Million Points and Counting: A New Stratification Approach for Mapping and Modeling the Ocean," UNH CCOM University of New Hampshire Center for Ocean and Coastal Mapping (CCOM)/Joint Hydrographic Center (JHC)/Ocean Engineering Joint Seminar, livestreamed and recorded.
April 2021: "Why the World Needs Geospatial Now More Than Ever," Carnegie Institution for Science (Washington, DC) Capital Science Evening Lecture, livestreamed.
April 2021: "The Story of the Tubeworm Barbecue," Women of the Deep Panel Discussion by the Explorers Club and Discovery, moderated by Martha Shaw, w/Jenifer Austin, Vicki Ferrini, Edith Widder), livestreamed on Facebook (4th of 4 speakers).
April 2021: "US Perspective: Half Earth and 30x30," Earth Observation for Conservation Policy and Practice: Trans-Atlantic Perspectives, Virtual Webinar coordinated by the Eurosite European Land Conservation Network, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and the IUCN, moderated by Jim Levitt, Lincoln Institute with Jeff Allenby, Lincoln Institute Center for Geospatial Solutions; Odean Serrano, Earth League International, livestreamed to ~500.
March 2021: "Women, Science and the Road to Inclusive Leadership," USC Wrigley Institute Delta Murphy Distinguished Lecture, moderated by Carley Kenkel with Rita Colwell (University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins and Former Director of NSF) and Hope Jahren (University of Oslo and author of the best-selling Lab Girl and The Story of More), livestreamed to ~500.
March 2021: "Join the Rebel Alliance - An Openscapes Interview with Dr. Dawn Wright at Mozfest," with Julia Stewart Lowndes and Erin Robinson, MozFest, Mozilla's Internet Festival, livestreamed to a limited, registered MozFest audience [may be coming to YouTube soon].
February 2021: "Conversations with GSA's Bromery Awardees for Minorities in Geology, Featuring Dr. Dawn Wright, Chief Scientist, Environmental Systems Research Institute" with Wes Ward (USGS Chief Geologist of the Western US emeritus + Bromery Awardee), Geological Society of America, livestreamed, 457 registrants, 233 unique visitors, 149 additional recording views.
February 2021: "The Role of GIS in Ocean Conservation" with Sandra Turner (Afro-Caribbean National Geographic Certified Educator), Facebook livestreamed and recorded, 359 Esri livestream attendees, 89 Facebook Live attendees, 934 additional recording views.
February 2021: "Arctic Data Stories: Data Visualization and Maps for Data-driven Policymaking," with Fran Ulmer (former Lt. Governor of Alaska), Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Workshop, Harvard Kennedy School and Woodwell Climate Research Center; recorded presentation and livestream.
February 2021: "The Importance of Racial Equity & Representation in Coastal Management," Coastal GeoTools Plenary session with Clinton Johnson, Esri; Deirdre Johnson Burrel, W.K. Kellogg Foundation; livestreamed to paid registrants only [may be coming to YouTube soon], 444 unique visitors.
January 2021: "DEEP Connections: Diversity & Science Lecture Series," Scripps Institution of Oceanography Deepening Engagement through Existing Pipeline Program, with Keiara Auzenne, Scripps; Billy Williams, AGU Senior VP, Ethics, Diversity and Inclusion; Brandon Jones, NSF Geosciences; livestreamed.

2020 UCSB Bren School of Environmental Science and Management Commencement Address (16:08 to 30:18)
2020 Ignite at AGU, evening science storytelling
2020 UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network Storytelling for the SDGs
2020 AltaSea Trailblazing Ocean Discovery and Conservation
2020 NatureServe Conservation Conversations
2020 Cal Academy Breakfast Club on Deepsea Mapping
2020 Esri Science Symposium
2020 Climate Apps for FL 16th Congressional District Event (September)

2019 Esri "See What Others Can't" campaign, GIS "Aha Moment" Video
2019 1000 STEM Women Project Flipgrid home video
2018 Let Science Speak (Episode 6) (premiered at Tribeca Film Festival) | Main Website

2018 Let Science Speak followup on Weather Channel
2018 Gilbert F. White Distinguished Lecture, National Academy of Sciences, "A Turn to the Territories featuring a Cautionary Tale of the 2009 American Samoa Tsunami" | Event Website

2017 GEO-XIV Plenary Video, GEO Week 2017, Washington, DC
2017 Esri User Conference Plenary: Science of Learning Part 1 + Part 2 (to audience of 15,000)
For fun: Deepsea Dawn Talks Like a Pirate! (2017 ITLAPD)
National Academy of Sciences Ocean Studies Board Revelle Lecture (2017, no graphics in video due to a mistake by Smithsonian A/V crew)

Esri Ocean Forum Keynote Intro (2016)

Latest Developments in Oceanographic Applications of GIS (2016)

2012 Esri User Conference Plenary Video: Ocean GIS (to audience of ~12,000)

Jack Dangermond and Dawn Wright Chat About Oceans | 2012 Oceans Summit

2011 Environmental Scientists Tell Why They Love Their Jobs (Stanford's Aldo Leopold Leadership Program)
Download Dawn component in full (38 Mb, poor audio)

Amazing deepsea creatures, geology seen on the East Pacific Rise (EPR) around the year 1996: EPR 17-18S
Video courtesy of Prof. Ken Macdonald, UCSB

Links to older sites with low-rez photos of work in the field or in the lab

Documentary film work with Scripps + Generous Films (2017)
With budding young scientist (2007)
Climbing into Pisces submersible (2005)
Recovering sample after submersible dive (2005)
Pisces submersible collage (2005)
With students
Field Survey, Am. Samoa
Submersible Launch and Dive Photos (4 Mb zip file)
Alvin on the Juan de Fuca Ridge
Alvin: the very first dive!

Field Survey, SE Pacific
Working with K-12 Teachers
Plenary talk, Ireland
Lab visit, Ireland