Laura Trethewey

Organization: Award-winning ocean and environmental journalist and author of The Imperiled Ocean: Human Stories of a Changing Sea and The Deepest Map

Resume:

In this keynote address, ocean journalist Laura Trethewey chronicles her time reporting The Deepest Map: her latest book about the race to map the global seafloor by 2030. Trethewey's reporting on ocean-mapping initiatives around the world took her to an Inuit-led community hydrography project in the Arctic, a drone factory in San Francisco and into the inner sanctum of government negotiations around how and whether to mine the deep sea. Join Laura as she dives into the science, nature, technology, and extreme outdoor adventure behind this epic project. 

About the speaker:

Laura Trethewey is an award-winning ocean and environmental journalist and author of The Imperiled Ocean: Human Stories of a Changing Sea. Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian Magazine, Courrier international, The Guardian, The Walrus, Toronto’s Globe and Mail, Hakai Magazine, and Canadian Geographic. She received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and won Canada’s Writers’ Trust Rising Star Award in 2020.