Dr. Denise L. Herzing is the founder and director of The Wild Dolphin Project, a fellow with the Explorer’s Club, a founding member of the Marine Mammal Society, and a professor in biological sciences at Florida Atlantic University. She is the recipient of a 2008 Guggenheim fellowship in Science Writing, and was nominated for a Wings World Quest award. She began her research with a pod of spotted dolphins in the 1980s. Now, almost three decades later, she has forged strong ties with many of these individuals, has witnessed and recorded them feeding, playing, fighting, mating, giving birth and communicating. Her recent book, Dolphin Diaries, is an account of Herzing’s research and her surprising findings on wild dolphin behavior, interaction, and communication. Herzing is a true pioneer in her field and deserves a place in the pantheon of naturalists and scientists next to Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall.