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Joshua John Powell CF (born 16 July 1993) is a British conservation biologist.[1][2]
Joshua Powell | |
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| Born | 16 July 1993 Eastbourne, East Sussex, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Nottingham (BSc) University of Pennsylvania (MES) |
| Awards | CF |
Education
[edit]Powell attended the University of Nottingham and graduated with a first-class Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Geography in 2014[2], before receiving a Thouron Award to complete his Masters at the University of Pennsylvania.[3][4]
Career
[edit]Powell received a UK Churchill Fellowship in 2017 to study island conservation strategy in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji[5], followed by South Georgia and the Falkland Islands.[6]
Powell then received a grant from the National Geographic Society to establish Rangers Without Borders, a conservation research project he subsequently founded with Peter Coals, a friend from the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) at the University of Oxford[7], with Powell becoming a National Geographic Explorer.[8]
Powell is one of the faces of WWF's #WWFVoices campaign on global biodiversity[9], hosting series on polar science and Arctic conservation in Svalbard and Arctic Russia[10], island and marine conservation in the North Atlantic[11] and biodiversity in South Georgia.
Awards and Honours
[edit]Powell received a UK Churchill Fellowship in 2017[12], receiving the honorific CF in 2019.
In 2019, Powell was awarded the Scientific Exploration Society's Explorer Award for Inspiration & Scientific Trail-blazing.[13]
- ^ "Joshua Powell". National Geographic Society.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b "Conservation Career Stories: Joshua Powell". Conservation Ecology Group. 30 January 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Penn Graduate Student Selected as a St. Gallen 'Leader of Tomorrow'". PennToday. 13 May 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Krueger, Alyson (24 October 2019). "Protecting Nature's Protectors". The Pennsylvania Gazette.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Joshua Powell". Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Meet the meat-eating ducks of South Georgia". METRO News. 17 March 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Rangers Without Borders: protecting nature in divided lands". Geographical. 31 January 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Joshua Powell - National Geographic Society". National Geographic.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Joshua Powell: Protecting endangered species". Queen's Commonwealth Trust. 17 May 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Conservation Career Stories: Joshua Powell". Conservation Ecology Group. 30 January 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "The Wild North Atlantic". wwf.exposure.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Joshua Powell". Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "SES EXPLORER AWARD WINNERS 2019". SES-Explore.
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