Scientists and explorers from various countries will meet starting this Monday in the Azores in an annual meeting to share scientific discoveries in the oceans, space and the environment, but also to discuss future missions in these areas.
The third edition of the GLEX Summit, a joint organization of the New York Explorers Club and the Expanding World of Portugal, brings together the “greatest living legends of exploration around the world” for the next four days, the organization announced .
Among the more than 50 speakers from various areas of knowledge are James Garvin, NASA chief scientist and leader of the DAVINCI mission to Venus, astronaut Michael López-Alegría, commander of the first private mission to the International Space Station, Bertrand Piccard, Swiss explorer and pioneer of solar aviation, and Rosaly Lopes, Brazilian astronomer who discovered the largest number of active volcanoes.
The approximately 40 scheduled sessions, which will take place in Ponta Delgada, will also feature the participation of Siam Proctor, the first black commercial astronaut to pilot a spacecraft, and Borge Ousland, a Norwegian explorer who made the first crossing of Antarctica without support. .
Portugal will be represented on the panel of speakers through the scientist Emanuel Gonçalves, member of the Blue Ocean Foundation and researcher at the Center for Marine and Environmental Sciences, and the marine biologist Jorge Fontes, researcher at the Department of Oceanography and Fisheries of the University of the Azores.
On Tuesday, the GLEX Explorers Summit will have a session at Capelinhos Volcano, Faial Island, where NASA scientist James Garvin will participate.
The Explorers Club was founded in New York in 1904 and has some 3,000 members and among them, over the decades, are people who first reached places like the North Pole, the South Pole, the Moon, the top of Mount Everest and the deepest point in the known ocean, in the Mariana Trench.
Source: Observadora
