Featured Speaker
Greg Marshall
Crittercam: A Wild Point of View
Friday 9:00-10:15 AM, Ballroom D
Greg Marshall is a scientist, inventor, and filmmaker who has dedicated the last 17 years to studying, exploring, and documenting life in the oceans. In 1986, while diving in the reefs off Belize, Greg encountered a shark and was struck by the sight of a remora fish clinging to the shark's side. Imagining the unique perspective the remora must have when hitchhiking with its host, Greg conceived a remote camera that would mimic the remora's behavior.
Today that tool is called Crittercam, and it has been used in groundbreaking studies on dozens of marine species. Deployed on whales, sharks, seals, turtles, penguins, and other species, Crittercam has enabled Greg and his research collaborators to capture information that, until now, was inaccessible to humans.
Sponsored by: National Geographic School Publishing
