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Augmented Reality in Oceanography: Tierney Thys Demonstrates Planktomania

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Channel: Children's Technology Review · 2017 · Science & Technology

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TIERNEY THYS, PHD.

BIO: Tierney is ardent ocean scientist, conservationist, science media producer, National Geographic Explorer, Research Associate at the California Academy of Sciences and TED All-star speaker. After receiving a PhD studying fish biomechanics at Duke University, she was Director of Sea Studios Foundation and created films and outreach products for NatGeoTV including The Shape of Life series (shapeoflife.org) and Strange Days on Planet Earth (http://www.pbs.org/strangedays/) winner of Best Series Wildscreen Festival in Bristol, England. 

She was executive producer for an award-winning online film series for TEDed called Stories from the Sea. The first episode, Secret Life of Plankton, won Best Short film at the Blue Ocean Film Festival and Wildscreen in 2012.

Her latest research project explores the effects of imagery and sounds on the brain and cognitive wellbeing--a field she has coined Neurobiophilia. With funding from Nat Geo, Tierney is working with neuroeconomist Nik Sawe from Brian Knutsen's lab at Stanford University to explore brain responses to nature imagery and environmental campaigns.

She has also partnered with NG Explorer Tan Le ( Emotiv) NG Fellow, Nalini Nadkarni (forest ecologist and science educator U of U) and Deltcho Valtchenov (U of Waterloo) to explore how editing styles and biome content affect brain activity using Emotiv mobile electroencephalograph headsets. This work evolved from an ongoing partnership with Dr. Nadkarni to incorporate nature imagery into severely nature-deprived settings e.g. maximum security prison.

Tierney serves as a Nat Geo expert on research and tourist expeditions worldwide to Alaska, Antarctica, Baja, Bali, Belize, Caribbean, Galapagos, South Africa and around the world by Private Jet Expeditions. She is also Founder of the Adopt a Sunfish Project (www.oceansunfish.org) dedicated to researching and conserving ocean sunfishes--a group of fishes she has been studying since 2000.

Tierney believes we need to tap all our creative talents to help conserve our vital aquatic and terrestrial resources. She consults and works with photographers, dancers, writers, filmmakers and other artists to infuse quality science and conservation messaging into their work. She is also the daily underwater explorer in NatGeo's Animal Jam—an online game with more than 70 million players in 120 countries. Tierney gives public speaking events each year and is a STEM speaker for the US Embassy. And last but not le

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