SCCF Paul McCarthy Memorial Lecture Series:  Dr. Kathryn Sullivan

Founded in 1967, the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation’s mission is to protect and care for Southwest Florida's coastal ecosystems through its focus on Water Quality Research, Policy and Advocacy, Sea Turtles and Shorebirds, Native Landscaping, Habitat and Wildlife Management, and Environmental Education. SCCF is the largest private landowner on Sanibel Island. It manages 1,300 acres of land on Sanibel and Captiva and owns hundreds of additional acres in the Southwest Florida region. SCCF is proud to manage numerous public and non-public trails and preserves, a Native Landscape & Garden Center, Marine Laboratory, Sanibel Sea School, Coastal Watch volunteer program, and more.

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Dr. Kathryn Sullivan will talk about her amazing career as “the most vertical person on Earth."

SCCF’s Memorial Lecture Series to Feature Dr. Kathryn SullivanSCCF is thrilled to announce that Dr. Kathryn Sullivan will talk about her amazing career as “the most vertical person on Earth” at the 3rd Annual Paul McCarthy Memorial Lecture Series on Feb. 4.“We are honored to have Dr. Sullivan share her fascinating story of being the first person to both orbit the planet and reach its deepest point,” said SCCF CEO Ryan Orgera. Aside from her amazing experiences of spending more than 500 hours in space and plunging seven miles down into the depths of the ocean, Sullivan has held a variety of senior executive positions.“Her presidential appointments to the National Science Board and as Chief Scientist, Deputy Administrator and Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) also give her a singular perspective,” said Orgera, who met Sullivan on several occasions when he worked for the United States Senate. A distinguished scientist, astronaut, and ocean explorer, Sullivan joined the NASA astronaut corps in 1978 and holds the distinction of being the first American woman to walk in space. Her submersible dive to the Challenger Deep in June of 2020 made her the first woman to dive to full ocean depth.The Paul McCarthy Memorial Lecture series was conceived by the Boler Family Foundation, which underwrites the speaker fees and expenses, as a way to honor a dear family friend, Paul McCarthy, founder of Captiva Cruises and an active presence on the islands for years. Feb. 6 would have been McCarthy’s 68th birthday.This year, the lecture will be presented virtually through Zoom. Unlike other SCCF presentations this year, the 45-minute lecture will only be offered live at 5:30pm on Thursday, Feb. 4. It will not be available for recorded viewing. Sullivan currently serves on the boards of International Paper, Accenture Federal Services, the National Audubon Society, and Terra Alpha Investments, and is a Senior Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.Dr. Sullivan earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Earth Sciences from University of California at Santa Cruz and a Ph.D. in Geology from Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been elected into the Astronaut Hall of Fame, Women Aviators Hall of Fame, Women Divers Hall of Fame and Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame. She was recognized as one of the 46 distinguished First Women by Time Magazine (2017), the 15 Women Changing the World by the World Economic Forum (2015) and Time’s 100 Most Influential People (2014). She has been awarded the Explorers Club Medal, the Rachel Carson Award, an Emmy and nine honorary degrees.She is also the author of Handprints on Hubble, An Astronaut’s Story of Invention (MIT Press, 2019), which is the January selection for SCCF’s nature-inspired book club, The Green Readers.

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