Wallace J. Nichols, PhD, is an innovative and entrepreneurial scientist, a renowned marine biologist, a wild-water advocate, a best-selling author, and a sought-after lecturer. In addition to being Chief Evangelist for Water (CEH₂O) at Buoy Labs, he is a senior fellow at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies’ Center for the Blue Economy and a research associate at the California Academy of Sciences. Dr. Nichols is a cofounder of Ocean Revolution, an international network of young ocean advocates; SEEtheWILD, a conservation travel network; Grupo Tortuguero de las Californias, an international sea turtle conservation network; and Blue Mind Works, a global campaign to tell the new story of water. Dr. Nichols has authored more than 200 scientific papers, technical reports, book chapters, and popular publications.