Dr. John Calder is an internationally recognized/award winning scientist/geoscientist/geologist, author, educator, commentator and photographer. His passion is sharing the incredible story of the Earth, for which he was awarded the H.R. Ward Neale Medal of the Geological Association of Canada for excellence in communicating geoscience to Canadians. He was the lead scientist in the designation of The Joggins Fossil Cliffs of Nova Scotia as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. John is author of The Joggins Fossil Cliffs: Coal Age Galápagos and more than 200 scientific publications on the region's geology.