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Sylvia Earle Profile - Woman Road WarriorWoman Road Warriors are accountants and artists, techies and team builders, entrepreneurs and educators. They cover millions of miles each year to maintain that all-important in-person presence in the often impersonal and increasingly global business world. Here are just a few fellow Woman Road Warriors:  Sylvia Earle - Traveler, Explorer, Businesswoman, Mom Woman Road Warrior - Undersea Division When her children were only two and four, she left home for six weeks to join a National Science Foundation expedition in the Indian Ocean. Throughout the mid-1960s, while working to balance the demands of family and science she traveled all over the world. In 1970 Earle led an all-female research expedition 50 feet below the surface where they lived for two weeks. Other missions took her to the Galapagos, Panama, China and the Bahamas, and in 1979 she walked untethered on the sea floor at a lower depth than any living human being before or since. With engineer Graham Hawkes she started Deep Ocean Engineering and Deep Ocean Technologies, companies that designed and built undersea vehicles, making it possible for scientists to maneuver at incredible depths. Today, Dr. Earle is Explorer in Residence at the National Geographic Society and has led more than 70 expeditions, logging more than 6500 hours underwater. More recently, she led the Google Ocean Advisory Council, a team of 30 marine scientists providing content and scientific oversight for the "Ocean in Google Earth." She is affectionately and with great awe referred to as "her deepness." In 2009 she won the TED Prize, proposing to establish a global network of marine protected areas. For more about Sylvia Earle see achievement.org and tedprize.org
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