Mark Bauman Senior Vice President of Smithsonian Media overseeing the commercial media units of the Smithsonian Institution, including "Smithsonian" and "Air & Space" magazines, Smithsonian Books, Smithsonian.com and the Smithsonian Channel partnership with Showtime Marc Bekoff Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado, Boulder; Co-Founder of Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals; Author Wade Davis Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia; National Geographic Society Explorer-in-Residence and Explorers Council Member; Author; Filmmaker Terry D. Garcia CEO of Exploration Ventures; Past Executive Vice President and Chief Science and Exploration Officer for the National Geographic Society Mary Ellen Hannibal Author; Citizen Scientist; Speaker Morgan Heim Photographer; Filmmaker; Scientist; Self-Proclaimed “Science Groupie” Sheril Kirshenbaum Executive Director of ScienceDebate; Director of The Energy Poll at The University of Texas at Austin; Author Julia Osterman Graduate student at Stanford University Chris Palmer President of One World One Ocean Foundation and the MacGillivray Freeman Films Educational Foundation; Distinguished Film Producer in Residence at the School of Communication at American University; Environmental Film Producer; Professor; Speaker; Author Stuart Leonard Pimm Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University; National Geographic Big Cats Initiative Scientist; Director of SavingSpecies; Author Joyce Poole World Authority on Elephant Behaviour; Co-Director of ElephantVoices; Author Chris Rainer National Geographic Society Fellow; Documentary Photographer; Founder and Director of The Cultural Sanctuaries Foundation; Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society
