Dr. Anton Seimon
A National Geographic Explorer, Seimon leads research programs on a diverse range of themes in the Earth, atmospheric and environmental sciences. He holds adjunct faculty positions at Appalachian State University, the University of Maine and Bard College. With National Geographic Society funding, Seimon led a research program to catalog biodiversity in the high Andean watershed of Lake Sibinacocha in southern Peru at elevations up to 5,500 meters; this work included installing the first Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments site in South America. He currently works with conservationists to plan for climate change in tropical Africa using Earth system model supercomputer simulations.