Updates from the Field - Fall 2006 9/01/2006 Wings WorldQuest congratulates WINGS 2006 awardee Dr. Edie Widder and The Ocean Research & Conservation Association for her 2006 MacArthur Fellowship. Her work was highlighted for "fostering a greater understanding of ocean life as a means to better, more informed ocean stewardship." Eric Smith and Sue Hendrickson, principal divers on Franck Goddio's exploration of the sunken city of Cleopatra in Alexandria, Egypt, travel to Berlin and Paris for the museum opening of their discoveries. Michele Westmorland and Karen Huntt have updated their website www.headhuntrevisited.org to include the trailer for their Headhunt Revisited film and will be featured in the fall issue of The Explorers Journal. In October, Michele's new book Ocean Duets was published. Isabella Abbott has received the prestigious Botanical Society of America’s “Centennial Award,” established to acknowledge and honor outstanding service to the plant sciences and the Society. Leila Hadley Luce’s book, Garden By The Sea, won the silver medal in the Home and Garden category in Fore Word Magazine’s Book of the Year Awards. Ana C. Pinto Llona was appointed researcher at the distinguished Instituto de Historia, Madrid, Spain. Her recent work in Sopena, northern Spain, has revealed human habitation of at least 50,000 years, first by Neanderthal people, then, after some 35,000 years, by our Cro-magnon forebears. This year, Ana’s team dug at Level III, which is Gravettian, a pan-European culture that developed between 29,000 – 25,000 years ago. In August, Ana traveled to Kenya to look for archeological evidence with 2006 award winner Sveva Gallmann. Nathalie Cabrol is preparing for a new expedition in the Andes to pursue the exploration of its high-lakes. A big change will be the implementation of scuba diving instead of free diving. Captain Eric Smith is on the team. Nathalie was featured in the summer issue of The Explorers Journal. Sabriye Tenberken is currently training blind and visually impaired people in Kerala, India in skills that will enable them to set up new social projects and schools for the blind in their area. Lekha Singh’s photographs of women around the world are included in a new book, The Other Side of War: Women’s Stories of Survival and Hope, by Zaniab Salbi, released in September. The November issue of Aperture magazine features an interview with Marilyn Bridges and photo essay of her recent aerial photographs of ancient sites in Turkey. Marilyn’s new book, Flights Through Time, of aerial photos from around the world, will be published by Lodima Press, March 2007.