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Roberta Bondar at the Arrell Food Summit, Guelph ON
May 24, 2018
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Roberta Bondar at the Arrell Food Summit, Guelph ON
Roberta Bondar at the Arrell Food Summit, Guelph ON. May 22, 2018 discusses how climate change is affecting agriculture.
Astronaut, medical doctor, scientist, photographer, and author.
Dr. Roberta Bondar is unique, not just for being the world’s first neurologist in space or for her pioneering space medicine research. Academically one of the most distinguished astronauts to have flown in space, Dr. Bondar is also the only astronaut to use fine art photography to explore and reveal Earth’s natural environment from the surface.
Seeing the world through the lenses of a medical doctor, scientist, photographer, astronaut and author, Dr. Roberta Bondar follows in her family’s tradition of excellence in teaching, art and photography. Trained as a member of NASA’s Earth Observation Team, Dr. Bondar expanded her professional photographic expertise after her space mission. She continued her photographic explorations and fine-tuning her artistic and technical skills as an honors student in Professional Nature Photography. As a landscape photographer her work is represented by galleries in London, England, Winnipeg, Toronto and Calgary and is featured in numerous books and other publications. She cofounded The Roberta Bondar Foundation to connect all generations to the natural world.
Dr. Bondar’s distinctions are many: Officer of the Order of Canada, the Order of Ontario, the NASA Space Medal, induction into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame and into the International Women’s Forum’s Hall of Fame, 28 honorary doctorates from Canadian and American Universities, served as Chancellor of Trent University for six years, named by Time magazine as one of North America’s Best Explorers and has her own star on Canada’s Walk of Fame. Dr. Bondar’s academic path began at the University of Guelph, where she earned a BSc (Agr.) Zoology and Agriculture.
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