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:explode:Modern Day Explorers :explode:BRO! (ALEXANDRA COUSTEAU…

- - - - Using recycled cell phones, engineer, physicist, and inventor Topher White has come up with an ingenious method of detecting illegal logging and poaching in remote rain forests. Deforestation is one of the main contributors to climate change and the extinction of endangered species. INTERPOL estimates 50 to 90 percent of rainforest logging is illegal. In 2012, White founded Rainforest Connection, which, according to the organization’s website, works to “transform recycled cell phones into autonomous, solar-powered listening devices that can monitor and pinpoint chainsaw activity at great distance, providing the world’s first audio-based logging detection system, pinpointing deforestation activity as it occurs and enabling real-time intervention.”
        
        The organization has helped stop illegal logging and poaching operations in Sumatra and is expanding its activities to rainforest reserves in Africa and Brazil. White, who has a B.A. in physics from Kenyon College, is currently working in Brazil, helping the indigenous Tembe people in the northern Amazonian state of Para monitor their lands to prevent poaching and illegal logging and settlement. White is a 2015 National Geographic Emerging Explorer.He is one of the few that focus on technology in the rain forest. This is why he diserves the ten thousand
        
        Skylar Tibbits
        
        Skylar Tibbits is the founder and co-director of the Self-Assembly Lab housed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) International Design Center. The Self-Assembly Lab focuses on self-assembly and programmable material technologies for novel manufacturing, products, and construction processes
        
        skylar is well educated and a great impression on the younger generations. He has a minor degree in architecture and a masters in computer science. This is why he deserves the ten thousand
        
        Aydogan Ozcan
        
        Aydogan Ozcan’s research focuses on the use of computation to create new optical microscopy, sensing, and diagnostic technologies, with applications in telemedicine, global health, and environmental monitoring. He pioneered the use of smartphone-based biomedical tools such as fluorescent and bright-field microscopes, imaging flow cytometers, diagnostic test readers, bacteria/pathogen sensors, blood analyzers, and allergen detectors—all integrated with mobile phones using compact and inexpensive interfaces.
        
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        Kalyar Platt grew up in Yangon, Myanmar, and attended Yangon University. Kalyar began working for the Wildlife Conservation Society Thailand in 2001 and was admitted into the graduate program at Chulalongkorn University where, in 2007, she earned a Ph.D. As director of The Turtle Survival Alliance Myanmar Program, Kalyar reengineered the Burmese star tortoise conservation program. Today, almost 950 head started star tortoises roam freely at Minzoni Taung Wildlife Sanctuary. Kalyar has put in motion a second reintroduction in Shwesettaw Wildlife Sanctuary. Kalyar has also worked tirelessly to pull the Burmese roofed turtle back from the edge by overseeing the collection of eggs from the Chindwin River, conducting the first release of head started turtles in 2015, establishing a third assurance colony, and boosting production of hatchlings at the Mandalay Zoo. Kalyar’s achievements have not gone unnoticed in Myanmar, where turtles are now at the forefront of the budding conservation movement.
- - - - Robert Ballard