In 1986, she was a semi-finalist for NASA's Journalist-in-Space Project -this program was cancelled after the Space Shuttle Challenger (carrying Christa McAuliffe as a payload specialist with the Teacher in Space Project) disaster. Her research has taken her to such diverse locales as Mata Atlantic in Brazil (working with endangered golden lion tamarins), Patagonia ( right whales), Hawaii ( humpback whales), California (tagging monarch butterflies at their overwintering sites), French Frigate Shoals ( monk seals), Toroshima, Japan ( short-tailed albatross), Texas (with Bat Conservation International), the Amazon rainforest, and Antarctica ( penguins). Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Smithsonian, Parade, The New Yorker, National Geographic, and many other journals. She has taught at a number of universities, including Columbia and Cornell. Among the members of her dissertation committee was Carl Sagan, an astronomer and the creator of the Cosmos television series.
Education and career Īckerman received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Arts, Master of Fine Arts and Ph.D.
Diane Ackerman (born October 7, 1948) is an American poet, essayist, and naturalist known for her wide-ranging curiosity and poetic explorations of the natural world.
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