Erika Woolsey

Erika Woolsey is a marine biologist, designer, VR filmmaker, National Geographic Explorer, visiting scholar at the Stanford University Virtual Human Interaction Lab, and CEO and co-founder of The Hydrous, a nonprofit devoted to translating marine science into public understanding. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she conducted her Ph.D. research with James Cook University on the Great Barrier Reef, earned her master’s of applied science in coastal management from the University of Sydney, and studied biology and art history at Duke University.