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Tierney Thys, Ph.D., Senior Research Advisor
Tierney received her A.B. in Biology from Brown University and her PhD studying fish biomechanics at Duke University. Since 1998, she has worked with Sea Studios overseeing all factual content of projects from NSF grant writing to outreach and broadcast deliverables and now serves as the Foundation's Senior Research Consultant. Tierney has also taught Environmental Science and Policy as an adjunct professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Tierney continues her research on the world's heaviest bony fish, the Mola mola, as part of the Census of Marine Life—an unprecedented effort to understand what lived, lives and will live in all the world's oceans. She has led numerous expeditions to Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan and South Africa in an effort to reduce mola bycatch. Tierney was recently elected a National Geographic Emerging Explorer and nominated for a Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation. She serves on the braintrust for the annual Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED.com) conference and on the task force for Chicago Museum of Science and Industry's new Exploration Hall. She previously worked with Sylvia Earle at Deep Ocean Engineering on the "Deep Flight" submersible, has piloted the Nuytco Deep Worker subs, and is a certified diver and private land and sea pilot. |
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