Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 7:30 pm

PRESENTED BY
LC LIVE

LOCATION
Lincoln Center Performance Hall

Kenny Broad

Explorer & Environmental Anthropologist

BIO

Environmental anthropologist Dr. Kenny Broad has participated in extreme scientific and filmmaking expeditions on every continent—from studying cocaine distribution patterns to venomous snakes to the deepest caves on the planet—to gather information and samples that shed light on little known environmental and cultural subjects. He regularly collaborates with ecologists, climatologists, hydrologists, psychologists and a range of other strange ‘ologists’. Broad led the Bahamas Blue Hole Project which appeared as a cover story in National Geographic, with photos from the late Wes Skiles, with whom he was awarded 2011 National Geographic Explorer of the Year. 

Broad is a professor at the University of Miami’s (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Director of UM’s Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy, and co-directs the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University, where he received his PhD in 1999. He has published dozens of scientific articles on a range of topics. Broad is the recipient of the National Geographic 2006 Emerging Explorer Award and was elected a Fellow National of the Explorers Club in 2009 and a former member of the National Geographic Society Expedition Council Advisory Board. He also holds commercial and instrument helicopter pilot ratings and a US Coast Guard merchant marine license.