Ana C. Pinto, archeologist
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 8:25 am
Ana Pinto, Asturian, Friend, Member of this forum, Piper, famous archaeologist and now recipient of the following Award..
Congratulations Ana, Puxa Asturies!
Alfonso
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE– NEW YORK—11/8/04
Wings announces
2005 WOMEN OF DISCOVERY AWARD WINNERS
Wings, a not-for-profit organization devoted to promoting scientific exploration and celebrating extraordinary women explorers will present the third annual Wings Women of Discovery Awards on Wednesday, March 2, 2005 from 5:30 to 9:00 P.M. at New York’s National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South. The Wings Women of Discovery Awards are the first to recognize the contributions of women explorers who are pioneering discoveries on the frontiers of research and knowledge.
The awards will be given in five categories: Sea, Air and Space, Humanity, Lifetime Achievement, and the Leila Hadley Luce Award for Courage. Each awardee is chosen for her groundbreaking work achieved in one of those fields. The awardees of 2005 from North America, France, Germany, Spain and Sweden are:
SEA: Sue Hendrickson
Sue Hendrickson is an independent explorer who is searching for clues relating to ancient life. Depending on the time of year, she dives on ancient wrecks off the Philippine Islands and Cuba, and on the submerged ancient city of Herakleon in Egypt; hunts for fossil whales in the windswept deserts of Peru, and searches for dinosaurs in Wyoming. Hendrickson is best known for finding the largest Tyrannosaurus rex known that was named Sue in her honor, presently displayed at the Field Museum of Chicago. Hendrickson’s interests have also focused on amber and conch pearls that have been added to museum collections and included in the exhibits Pearls and Amber. Wings is honoring Hendrickson for her underwater marine archaeological discoveries. As the principal diver on ancient wrecks and sunken cities and with her work mapping the wrecks off the coast of Cuba Sue Hendrickson is uncovering a rich historical panorama.
AIR AND SPACE: Nathalie Cabrol
Nathalie Cabrol is a planetary geologist with the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute. She works with NASA Ames Research Center analyzing images and data from the Mars mission launches for evidence of water to find out if Mars developed environments that could have been, or still could be, habitable by living organisms. She has led rover field experiments and helped to determine the landing sites for the latest Mars Expeditions. In trying for a better understanding of Martian environments, Cabrol has been leading the Licancabur Expeditions to the highest lake on Earth (5916 m or 19523 ft) on the boundary of Chile and Bolivia where the conditions are analogous to those of ancient Martian lakes: low oxygen, intense UV (ultraviolet) radiation, and the atmospheric pressure only 50 percent of what it is at sea level.
HUMANITY: Ana Pinto
Ana Cristina Pinto-Llona is a Spanish archaeologist who made an astonishing discovery in 2002 in a remote cave in Northern Spain. Her test excavations revealed an occupation sequence ranging from the Early Upper Paleolithic, to the Mousterian -- the first arrival of modern humans into Europe back to Neanderthals and probably further back to the time of homo erectus. Given the richness of finds and the depth of the stratigraphic sequence, she will be excavating and researching The Sopeña Archaeological Project for decades to come. She is currently Adjunct Professor and Research Scholar at the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University.
LEILA HADLEY LUCE AWARD FOR COURAGE: Sabriye Tenberken
Blind since she was 12 years old, Sabriye Tenberken studied Central Asian Studies at Bonn University where she mastered Mongolian, Chinese, and modern and classical Tibetan. Tenberken translated Tibetan into Braille and then traveled to Tibet where she established Tibet’s only school for the blind in Lhasa. Traveling on horseback throughout Tibet, looking for blind people to bring to her school, she realized how sightless children, because of their blindness, suffered from unhealthy living conditions. Teaching blind children how to read with Braille, Tenberken also teaches them how to climb in the Himalayas, and overcome the stigma of their disabilities. Sabriye Tenberken is the founder and director of Braille Without Borders.
LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT: Marianne Greenwood
Marianne Hederstrom Greenwood, born in the Far North of Sweden, moved to Stockholm just before World War II to study art. After the war she moved to Antibes where she became the in- house photographer for Picasso and many other artists. She went on to spend decades living with, photographing and writing about indigenous people in the Americas, the Pacific Islands, Papua (New Guinea), and parts of Asia. Her work is collected by several museums and her archive is housed both at the Etnographical Museum in Stockholm and at the Picasso Museum in Antibes. A gallery show of her photographs will be held at New York’s National Arts Club from February 27 to March 5, 2005. The exhibit will travel to Stockholm and to Nice.
Event Chairs : Suzi Zetkus and Myrella Triana
Press interviews with the Award Winners 10-12 March 2 National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY 10003
Related Events:
Special Event : March 3, 9 am-1 P.M. Women Explorer Day
The New York Hall of Science, Flushing NY
Lectures by Award Winners: March 3, 2005 The Explorers Club 46 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021 6-9 P.M.
Congratulations Ana, Puxa Asturies!
Alfonso
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE– NEW YORK—11/8/04
Wings announces
2005 WOMEN OF DISCOVERY AWARD WINNERS
Wings, a not-for-profit organization devoted to promoting scientific exploration and celebrating extraordinary women explorers will present the third annual Wings Women of Discovery Awards on Wednesday, March 2, 2005 from 5:30 to 9:00 P.M. at New York’s National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South. The Wings Women of Discovery Awards are the first to recognize the contributions of women explorers who are pioneering discoveries on the frontiers of research and knowledge.
The awards will be given in five categories: Sea, Air and Space, Humanity, Lifetime Achievement, and the Leila Hadley Luce Award for Courage. Each awardee is chosen for her groundbreaking work achieved in one of those fields. The awardees of 2005 from North America, France, Germany, Spain and Sweden are:
SEA: Sue Hendrickson
Sue Hendrickson is an independent explorer who is searching for clues relating to ancient life. Depending on the time of year, she dives on ancient wrecks off the Philippine Islands and Cuba, and on the submerged ancient city of Herakleon in Egypt; hunts for fossil whales in the windswept deserts of Peru, and searches for dinosaurs in Wyoming. Hendrickson is best known for finding the largest Tyrannosaurus rex known that was named Sue in her honor, presently displayed at the Field Museum of Chicago. Hendrickson’s interests have also focused on amber and conch pearls that have been added to museum collections and included in the exhibits Pearls and Amber. Wings is honoring Hendrickson for her underwater marine archaeological discoveries. As the principal diver on ancient wrecks and sunken cities and with her work mapping the wrecks off the coast of Cuba Sue Hendrickson is uncovering a rich historical panorama.
AIR AND SPACE: Nathalie Cabrol
Nathalie Cabrol is a planetary geologist with the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute. She works with NASA Ames Research Center analyzing images and data from the Mars mission launches for evidence of water to find out if Mars developed environments that could have been, or still could be, habitable by living organisms. She has led rover field experiments and helped to determine the landing sites for the latest Mars Expeditions. In trying for a better understanding of Martian environments, Cabrol has been leading the Licancabur Expeditions to the highest lake on Earth (5916 m or 19523 ft) on the boundary of Chile and Bolivia where the conditions are analogous to those of ancient Martian lakes: low oxygen, intense UV (ultraviolet) radiation, and the atmospheric pressure only 50 percent of what it is at sea level.
HUMANITY: Ana Pinto
Ana Cristina Pinto-Llona is a Spanish archaeologist who made an astonishing discovery in 2002 in a remote cave in Northern Spain. Her test excavations revealed an occupation sequence ranging from the Early Upper Paleolithic, to the Mousterian -- the first arrival of modern humans into Europe back to Neanderthals and probably further back to the time of homo erectus. Given the richness of finds and the depth of the stratigraphic sequence, she will be excavating and researching The Sopeña Archaeological Project for decades to come. She is currently Adjunct Professor and Research Scholar at the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University.
LEILA HADLEY LUCE AWARD FOR COURAGE: Sabriye Tenberken
Blind since she was 12 years old, Sabriye Tenberken studied Central Asian Studies at Bonn University where she mastered Mongolian, Chinese, and modern and classical Tibetan. Tenberken translated Tibetan into Braille and then traveled to Tibet where she established Tibet’s only school for the blind in Lhasa. Traveling on horseback throughout Tibet, looking for blind people to bring to her school, she realized how sightless children, because of their blindness, suffered from unhealthy living conditions. Teaching blind children how to read with Braille, Tenberken also teaches them how to climb in the Himalayas, and overcome the stigma of their disabilities. Sabriye Tenberken is the founder and director of Braille Without Borders.
LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT: Marianne Greenwood
Marianne Hederstrom Greenwood, born in the Far North of Sweden, moved to Stockholm just before World War II to study art. After the war she moved to Antibes where she became the in- house photographer for Picasso and many other artists. She went on to spend decades living with, photographing and writing about indigenous people in the Americas, the Pacific Islands, Papua (New Guinea), and parts of Asia. Her work is collected by several museums and her archive is housed both at the Etnographical Museum in Stockholm and at the Picasso Museum in Antibes. A gallery show of her photographs will be held at New York’s National Arts Club from February 27 to March 5, 2005. The exhibit will travel to Stockholm and to Nice.
Event Chairs : Suzi Zetkus and Myrella Triana
Press interviews with the Award Winners 10-12 March 2 National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY 10003
Related Events:
Special Event : March 3, 9 am-1 P.M. Women Explorer Day
The New York Hall of Science, Flushing NY
Lectures by Award Winners: March 3, 2005 The Explorers Club 46 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021 6-9 P.M.
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