- Dr. Ellen Prager
- Chief Scientist
Aquarius Reef Base
Dr Prager is an experienced marine scientist and author of popular science and children’s books. She has done several missions in Aquarius and was a safety diver for its predecessor, Hydrolab. She conducted research in the Florida Keys while with the U.S. Geological Survey, is the former assistant dean and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, was contracted by the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy to help write their report to Congress and the President in 2004, and served as chair of the Ocean Research and Resources Advisory Panel for the federal government. Dr. Prager has appeared on The Today Show, CNN’s Larry King, ABC’s Good Morning America, on the Discovery Channel, FOX News, CBS Nightly News and more, is a frequently requested public speaker, and her new book about fieldwork and ocean science will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2008. She grew up in Sudbury, Massachusetts, a suburb west of Boston and began diving while working as a lifeguard in high school. In college, when she discovered a career where she could combine her love of scuba diving and nature with her strength and interest in science she was hooked on marine science.
