Zoya Teirstein is a staff writer at Grist covering public health and the politics of climate change. Her work has appeared in Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Slate, HuffPost, Wired, and […]

Tara McGowan-Ross is an urban Mi’kmaw multidisciplinary artist and writer. She is the host of Drawn & Quarterly’s Indigenous Literatures Book Club, a critic of experimental and independent Montreal theatre, […]

Adam Mahoney is a reporter at the nonprofit climate magazine Grist. As a member of the investigations desk, he reports on environmental justice, with a focus on the energy transition, […]

Ashley S. Pavon was a farmworker and factory worker in high school and now is a full time student at Hartnell College pursuing an Associate Degree and a Certificate in […]

Helen, Director of The Great Gull Island Project since 1969, is a tirelessly dedicated scientist with infectious spunk who has given much of her life to the study and preservation […]

Since 1974 Joe has worked on Great Gull Island, managing the GGI database of nearly one million records, and has authored/coauthored papers based on the data. He also followed the […]

Michael has decades of experience producing and filming natural history subjects and scientific research, from the tropics to the Arctic. While a university student he made his first film “Ternwatch,” […]

Moira Brown, lead scientist at the Canadian Whale Institute, has been studying North Atlantic right whales for over 30 years in both Canadian and U.S. waters. In 2015, when right […]

In the Gulf of St. Lawrence, snow crab fisher Martin Noël is conducting the first real- world test of ropeless fishing technology in the North Atlantic. Fishing gear entanglement is […]

Dr. Sharp is the Animal Rescue Veterinarian for IFAW’s Marine Mammal Rescue and Research Program. Dr. Sharp leads IFAW’s efforts to document the causes of death for all marine mammals […]