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

Esri Chief Scientist, Speaking at User Conference (preferred, high-rez) | smaller size jpg

Esri Chief Scientist Photo 2

Esri Chief Scientist Photo 3

Esri Chief Scientist Photo 4 - maroon shirt for web | high-rez tiff

In the hatch of the Limiting Factor submersible | Climbing out of the Limiting Factor submersible, Challenger Deep dive

With Astronaut Kathy Sullivan (low-rez, 2017)

SuperScientists Comic (South Africa) | full length (.png) | comic w/globe | comic w/book | download poster
RGS Science Superhero Comic (UK) | main website

Challenger Deep Photo Albums
Very-Extended, In-Depth Interview Transcripts
Short professional bio | Full CV | Online Videos | Mapping the Deep Hub

Selected PODCASTS/Written Interviews/Essays/Online Profiles

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

Deep Submergence Support Vessel PRESSURE DROP, July 10-20, 2022 - Caladan Oceanic, Ring of Fire Expedition, Part III - DSV Limiting Factor submersible investigation and record-breaking sidescan sonar survey within the Western Pool of Challenger Deep, Mariana Trench. Mission specialist on Limiting Factor Dive #115. Expedition also included dives to the Yap Trench and Palau Trench, and accompanying EM-124 shipboard bathymetric surveys. Apra, Guam to Koror, Palau.
Press Release 1 | Press Release 2 | Expedition Hub | DiverNet article | Nature article | Mongabay article | ArcUser | ArcNews | The New Deeps short film by Verola Media | Esri Short Film | CBS Saturday Morning | CBS Mornings | NBC LX News Interview | AccuWeather Interview | StoryMap | Interactive 3D Web Scenes | Hawaii News Now podcast | "Ask a Scientist" Hollywood YouTube | Inaugural Ocean Exploration Day | Special Report to Esri Support Services | Redlands Forum "Town-n-Gown" Lecture | Rolling in the Deep (Parley.tv Instagram) | The Dirt on Earth Podcast | The Science "Pawdcast" | NPR Short Wave | OPB Think Out Loud | OSU Marston Lecture | Discover Magazine 1 | Discover Magazine 2 | Daily Astorian | UNILAD (UK viral content for youth) | Connecticut NPR (Audacious) | Hawai'i Sea Grant Ka Pili Kai Magazine

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