Previous Wave Makers of the Year

WAVE MAKER OF THE YEAR:

2024:
Jacques Oliver
Senior Regulatory Scientist, US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water

2023:
Imani Black
Founder & CEO, Minorities in Aquaculture

2022:
Helen A. Brohl
Former Executive Director, US Committee on the Marine Transportation System

2021:
Dr. Dawn Wright
Chief Scientist, ERSI

2020:
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Co-Founder, Urban Ocean Lab

2019:
Dr. Rita Colwell
Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland at College Park and John Hopkins
President & Chairman, CosmosID, Inc.

2018:
Dr. Nancy Knowlton
Former Sant Chair for Marine Science, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History

2017:
Dr. Marcia McNutt
President, National Academy of Sciences

2016:
Christy Goldfuss
Chief Policy Impact Officer, NRDC

2015:
Dr. Kathy Sullivan
Former NOAA Administrator & NASA Astronaut