Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative
Live Talk
Thomas Peschak
To celebrate Rolex’s Poles, Mountains and Forests Moment, Helen Czerski joins National Geographic Explorer and Photographer Thomas Peschak to discuss the two-year Rolex and National Geographic Perpetual Planet Amazon Expedition.
Thomas Peschak has spent close to 400 days over two years in the Amazon Rainforest, working with the seven teams of Explorers who led the ground-breaking expedition that deepened our understanding of the Amazon River Basin.
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Thomas Peschak
Marine Biologist and National Geographic Explorer
Helen Czerski
Physicist and oceanographer
Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative
Rolex Poles, Mountains and Forests Moment
The Rolex and National Geographic Perpetual Planet Amazon Expedition: From the Andes to the Atlantic
The Rolex and National Geographic Perpetual Planet Amazon Expedition: Through the Lens
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Thomas Peschak is a National Geographic Explorer and photographer specializing in documenting the beauty and fragility of the world’s oceans and coasts. Trained as a marine biologist, he embraced photojournalism after realizing his photographs could have a greater conservation impact than scientific statistics.
Peschak has covered some of the most critical conservation stories of our time, and his work has been featured in 16 National Geographic magazine editions. His recent magazine work includes, “The Amazon’s First Storytellers” (June 2023) and “Niassa: The Myth of Wild Africa” (Sept. 2023). His images and stories have won 17 Wildlife Photographer of the Year and seven World Press Photo Awards. Peschak is a founding director of the Manta Trust, the director of storytelling for the Save our Seas Foundation, and a senior fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers. He’s spoken numerous times at National Geographic Live events, and his 2015 TED Talk “Dive into an ocean photographer’s world” has been viewed more than 1 million times.
In 2024, as part of the Rolex and National Geographic Perpetual Planet Amazon Expedition, Peschak completed a 396-day-long exploration of the Amazon River Basin, documenting its wonders and challenges from underwater and topside perspectives. Starting with ice axes and crampons in the icy high Andes and finishing with scuba gear in the Atlantic Ocean, he created the first-of-its-kind comprehensive photographic archive of our planet’s most iconic and biodiverse river system.
First and foremost a physicist and oceanographer, Dr Helen Czerski is also an award-winning television broadcaster and writer, and was one of the ten jurors of the 2023 Rolex Awards for Enterprise.
As well as conducting extensive research, Czerski presents documentaries on physics and ocean-related topics for the BBC, and her column “Everyday Physics” regularly appears in the Wall Street Journal, while her award-winning first book, Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life (2016), has been translated into 14 languages.
In 2018, Czerski won the Institute of Physics Gold Medal (William Thomson, Lord Kelvin Medal and Prize) for her work championing physics to millions worldwide.