Joshua Powell
Joshua Powell CF | |
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| Born | Joshua John Powell July 16, 1993 Eastbourne, East Sussex, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Bachelor of Science degree in Geography |
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| Occupation | Conservation biologist |
| Awards | Scientific Exploration Society's Explorer Award {2019} |
| Website | joshua-powell |
Joshua John Powell CF (born 16 July 1993) is a British conservation biologist.[1][2]
Education
Powell attended the University of Nottingham and graduated with a first-class Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Geography in 2014[3], before receiving a Thouron Award to complete his Masters at the University of Pennsylvania.[4][5]
Career
Powell received a UK Churchill Fellowship in 2017 to study island conservation strategy in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji[6][7], followed by South Georgia and the Falkland Islands.[8]
Powell then received a grant from the National Geographic Society to establish Rangers Without Borders, a conservation research program he subsequently founded with Peter Coals, a friend from the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) at the University of Oxford[9][10], with Powell becoming a National Geographic Explorer.[11]
Powell is one of the faces of WWF's #WWFVoices campaign on global biodiversity[12], for which he has hosted series on polar science and Arctic conservation in Svalbard and Arctic Russia[13], island and marine conservation in the North Atlantic[14] and biodiversity in South Georgia.
Awards and honours
Powell received a UK Churchill Fellowship in 2017[15][16], receiving the honorific CF in 2019.
In the media
References
- ↑ "Joshua Powell". National Geographic Society.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Wright, Rosalie (30 January 2020). "Conservation Career Stories: Joshua Powell". Conservation Ecology Group.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Wright, Rosalie (30 January 2020). "Conservation Career Stories: Joshua Powell". Conservation Ecology Group.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Baillie, Katherine (13 May 2016). "Penn Graduate Student Selected as a St. Gallen 'Leader of Tomorrow'". Penn Today.
{{cite news}}: 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) - ↑ Morris, Ben (October 2017). "Scientific Adventurer". All About Horsham. October 2017: 45–47.
- ↑ "Meet the meat-eating ducks of South Georgia". METRO News. 17 March 2020.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Rangers Without Borders: protecting nature in divided lands". Geographical. 31 January 2020.
- ↑ "RANGERS WITHOUT BORDERS working for wildlife in the Caucasus, a geopolitical and biodiversity hotspot". The Explorers Journal. 97 (3): 38–47.
- ↑ "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) - ↑ Wright, Rosalie (30 January 2020). "Conservation Career Stories: Joshua Powell". Conservation Ecology Group.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "The Wild North Atlantic". wwf.exposure. 27 August 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Joshua Powell". Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Morris, Ben (October 2017). "Scientific Adventurer". All About Horsham. October 2017: 45–47.
External links
- Joshua Powell on linkedin
- Joshua Powell on instagram
- Joshua Powell on facebook
- Joshua Powell - National Geographic Society
- joshua.powell.2017 | Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
- Tespack Ambassador - Joshua Powell - Tespack
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