Sylvia Earle 2018 Princess of Asturias Award for Concord

At its meeting in Oviedo, the Jury for the 2018 Princess of Asturias Award for Concord, composed of Íñigo Abarca Junco, Fernando de Almansa Moreno-Barreda, Viscount of Castillo de Almansa, Ernesto Antolin Arribas, Antonio Basagoiti García-Tuñón, Santiago Bergareche Busquet, Carlos Casanueva Varas, Sol Daurella Comadrán, José Manuel Entrecanales Domecq, Isidro Fainé Casas, Ana Isabel Fernández Álvarez, Pedro Luis Fernández Pérez, José Antonio Fernández Rivero, Luis Fernández-Vega Sanz, Ignacio Garralda Ruiz de Velasco, Alicia Koplowitz Romero de Juséu, Marchioness of Bellavista, Wenceslao López Martínez, Laureano Lourido Artime, Teresa Mallada de Castro, César José Menéndez Claverol, José Oliu i Creus, María del Pino Calvo-Sotelo, Mariano Puig Planas, Helena Revoredo de Gut, Matías Rodríguez Inciarte, Pedro Sanjurjo González, Andreas Schierenbeck, Antonio Suárez Gutiérrez, Gonzalo Urquijo Fernández de Araoz, Manuel Villa-Cellino Torre, Juan-Miguel Villar Mir, Marquis of Villar Mir, chaired by Javier Fernández Fernández and with Adolfo Menéndez Menéndez acting as secretary, has decided to confer the 2018 Princess of Asturias Award of Concord on American oceanographer Sylvia A. Earle for her dedication over more than six decades to exploring and researching the oceans, to knowledge of the seabed and to the integrated conservation of the seas, which has become one of the environmental challenges of our time.

Known as ‘Her Deepness’, her wide-ranging work has been fundamental for raising awareness of the importance of the oceans as a common source of wealth, at serious risk due to the accumulation of plastics and pollutant discharges which threaten human health and biodiversity throughout the planet.

Oviedo, 13th June 2018