Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1935
- Works
- 38
Top works
- The ocean realm
- A Western Botanist in Eastern China
- A review of the marine plants of Panama
- Life with the Dutch touch
- The offshore benthic flora of the southwest coast of Florida
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Acting · Gibbstown, New Jersey
Sylvia Alice Earle (born August 30, 1935 in Gibbstown, New Jersey) is an American oceanographer. She was chief scientist for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from 1990–1992. She is a National Geographic explorer-in-residence, sometimes called "Her Deepness" or "The Sturgeon General".
Known for
- Doppelgängers³2024
- Wealth Untold — Self - World Renowned Marine Biologist2024
- Eating Our Way to Extinction — Self2021
- Who We Were — Self - Oceanographer2021
- Perpetual Planet: Heroes of the Oceans — Self2021
- Ocean Odyssey — Self2021
- Seaspiracy — Self
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Sylvia Alice Earle (born August 30, 1935) is an American marine biologist, oceanographer, explorer, writer, and lecturer. She has been a National Geographic Explorer at Large (formerly Explorer in Residence) since 1998. Earle was the first chief scientist of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and was named by Time Magazine as its first Hero for the Planet in 1998.
Earle is part of the group Ocean Elders, which is dedicated to protecting the ocean and its wildlife.
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