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The Hubbard Medal – National Geographic’s Highest Honor

by Courtney Mattison
On June 13th, the National Geographic Society (NGS) awarded its highest honor – the Hubbard Medal – to Mission Blue founder Dr. Sylvia Earle, film director and explorer James Cameron and legendary scientist and Harvard professor Dr. E. O. Wilson. As recipients of the Society’s oldest and most prestigious award, these three honorees go down in history among a truly outstanding group of scientists and explorers.

Hubbard Medal video profile on Dr. Sylvia Earle. A brief video on the accomplishments of each honoree accompanied the 2013 Hubbard Medal presentation ceremony. © National Geographic
The Hubbard Medal was named after Gardiner Greene Hubbard – the National Geographic Society’s first president and principal founder. The NGS Board of Trustees authorized the award in 1906 to “honor outstanding explorations or discoveries.”…

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National Geographic Society Honors Six for Outstanding Contributions

By Courtney Mattison
Six extraordinary individuals were honored for their leadership in exploration, science, environmental stewardship and education at the National Geographic Society’s 125th Anniversary Gala celebration last night in Washington, D.C. Held at the National Building Museum, this star-studded event celebrated the power of exploration to inspire curiosity, research, creativity and ultimately a deeper understanding of our role in the natural world. National Geographic Society CEO and Chairman John Fahey explained the evening’s theme, “A New Age of Exploration”:
Exploration for our founders in 1888 was driven by a desire for knowledge and adventure. Today we have the same goals, but our explorers — and those who support them — are driven by a deeper purpose. In this new age of exploration, they want to help navigate the increasingly complex relationship between humanity’s needs and the natural world that sustains us.…

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James Cameron: What’s Next

By Mera McGrew
No sooner had filmmaker and explorer James Cameron returned from visiting the bottom of the ocean on March 26, did people start asking what his next expedition would be.
Cameron noted that one dive does not mark the end of deep-sea exploration.
“The best metaphor here would be that you have just air-dropped into Nebraska at night with a flashlight and walked about a mile shining it around through the fields and then you say that you have explored America,” Cameron told fellow explorers and invitees on Friday at the National Geographic Explorers Symposium.
The celebrated director of iconic movies such as Terminator 2, Titanic and Avatar took the stage to discuss his trip to the Mariana Trench in the submersible Deepsea Challenger and to offer a sneak peak at the 3D feature film highlighting the dive that is currently in production.…

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