From the top of the world's tallest tree,
to deep in unexplored caves, Mark Moffett has discovered new species and behavior while risking life and limb to find stories that make people fall in love with the unexpected in nature.  Mark is a real-life adventurer with awards for writing and photography... and now the highest honors in exploration, the 2006 Lowell Thomas Medal, from the Explorers Club and Rolex, bestowed on him at Cipriani Wall Street;  and  in 2008 the sixth Roy Chapman Andrews Society Distinguished Explorer Award.


With a Ph.D. from acclaimed conservationist Edward O. Wilson, Mark remains active in science, with over 80 peer-reviewed publications.  He has penned more than 24 articles for National Geographic Magazine, which has featured nearly 500 of his images.   Invite Mark to tell stories at your institution and be inspired by his courage, awestruck by his knowledge, and intoxicated by his passion.

Ecologist

"The
world-roving zoologist"

"a star is born"

National
Geographic
Magazine




"I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU'RE STILL ALIVE"

E.O. WIlson



"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU... WE HAVE TO
HAVE YOU BACK."

CONAN O'BRIEN




"CAN I TURN A BUCK ON SOME ANTS?"

STEPHEN COLBERT, INTERVIEW 27 JULY 2007

The

Explorer

Photojournalist

Awarded the 2008 Poynter Fellowship in Journalism from Yale, Mark lectures at Yale’s historic Peabody Museum on Tuesday, February 5th at 4 pm.

Buy a DVD of Mark's talk at National Geographic Society; he will be lecturing for National Geographic Society in Seattle on February 2 and 3.  Through the spring Mark will be largely unavailable due to research travels and writing.

Mark has an exhibit on ants opening on May 30th at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, which will include the unveiling of the painting of Edward O.Wilson for the National Portrait Gallery. His National Geographic exhibit on frogs is currently travelling in Asia.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Email: Doctor Bugs