By Wallace J. Nichols Growing up in the 1970s, I idolized Evel Knievel. To me, he was a rock star, sports hero and folk legend in one. He was both a daredevil and a cool character. Back then, his jumps over buses, fountains and canyons inspired me to launch my…
We recently connected with awesome oceanographer Dr. Wallace J. Nichols and found out that he’s putting together a cool new environmental award called the EcoDaredevil award. He’ll be co-presenting it with Evil Knievil’s granddaughter, Krysten Knievel, at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment on Earth Day (April 22!). One…
Durham, NC - Conservationist and sea turtle expert Wallace J. Nichols will present Duke University's Earth Day keynote speech at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 22, in Von Canon C at the Bryan Student Center. Nichols' talk is free and open to the public; an eco-reception will follow. An internationally recognized…
Overview: “We are at the Awana Kijal Golf, Beach & Spa Resort, a nine-story monster of a building, which conveniently has an ice cold conference room with no windows, just like all the others in thousands of hotels around the world. Kill the lights and fire up the PowerPoint. You…
Shaleyla Kelez, Emily Bryant, Jennifer Laliberte, Daniel Dunn, Wallace J. Nichols and Larry B. Crowder. 2008. Mapping fisheries and their potential threat to sea turtles in the eastern Pacific Ocean. In: Rees, A.F., M. Frick, A. Panagopoulou and K. Williams., compilers. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle…
