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Tierney Thys (born 1966) is an American
marine biologist Marine biology is the scientific study of the biology of marine life, organisms that inhabit the sea. Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology clas ...
, science educator, and
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explorer. In 1988 she earned a degree in biology from
Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...
, and in 1998 she earned a doctorate in biomechanics. She was formerly the director of research at the Sea Studios Foundation. She was also the science editor for ''The Shape of Life'' and director for ''Strange Days on Planet Earth''. She has also written, narrated and produced short films. Since 2000 she and her colleagues have been studying the giant
ocean sunfish The ocean sunfish (''Mola mola''), also known as the common mola, is one of the largest bony fish in the world. It is the type species of the genus ''Mola'', and one of five extant species in the family Molidae. It was once misidentified as th ...
(mola). In 2004 she was named a National Geographic "Emerging Explorer". She has since joined National Geographic expeditions and developed a National Geographic children's television conservation series. She has given two TED talks, "Swim with the giant sunfish", and "The secret life of plankton". As of 2015 she was producing an online series for TEDed titled ''Stories from the Sea''. A chapter of ''Earth Heroes: Champions of the Ocean'', by Fran Hodgkins, is about her, and she is briefly profiled in ''Girls Research!: Amazing Tales of Female Scientists''. ''Science Methods and Process Skills: Meet Tierney Thys, National Geographic Emerging Explorer'', by Kathy Cabe Trundle, was published by National Geographic School Publishing in 2011. A virtual aquarium in the educational game
Animal Jam ''Animal Jam Classic'', formerly known as ''Animal Jam'', is a massively multiplayer online game developed by WildWorks and recommended for kids up to the age of 12. It was launched in 2010, in collaboration with the National Geographic Society ...
is named after her. She is a certified pilot and diver.


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