National Geographic Society Explorer M Jackson to give University of Delawares’s 2022 John R. Mather Lecture
Many years ago, as she worked as a backcountry guide in southeast Alaska, M Jackson recalls having a lot of questions about ice. There was just one problem: she couldn’t seem to find anyone who could provide her the answers.
One day, while guiding a group of National Geographic photographers, who were out photographing birds, her persistent questions about ice changed her life forever.
“I thought, ‘These people are very smart, and they know all this stuff about birds, so of course they’ll know stuff about glaciers,’” said Jackson. “So I asked them about these glaciers, and the magic moment for me was when they said to me, ‘These are great questions. You should answer them.’ I never had anybody tell me that before.”