2017 Presentation: Tim Laman and Cheryl Knott

Tim Laman and Cheryl Knott are not your typical married couple. Laman is a field biologist and wildlife photojournalist whose striking images of birds of paradise, spiked-nosed tree frogs, probiscus monkeys and other little-known species have graced the pages of National Geographic many times. His pioneering research in the rain forest canopy of Borneo led to a Ph.D. from Harvard University, and he has published more than a dozen scientific articles and photographed some of the most critically endangered species in the world. Knott, meanwhile, is a biological anthropologist and primatologist who earned a Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard, where she went on to serve as associate professor of anthropology. Recently, with their two children in tow, the couple lived and worked in Borneo’s Gunung Palung National Park, where they studied, documented and revealed critical threats to the survival of the park’s orangutans.