Gary Braasch, a Nikon legend and recipient of the Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography, has been an assignment photographer for LIFE Magazine, Smithsonian, Audubon, Discover and Natural History Magazine since 1985. He has been a professional photographer and writer since 1975, and holds a masters degree in Journalism from Northwestern University. Recent assignments have taken Gary from Antarctica to the Peruvian Amazon to under the Pacific Ocean. In 2007 he published his master work on Climate Change, Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World, which is now an ebook, updated in 2009. His portfolios can be seen on his website www.braaschphotography.com and on the project website www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org.

From one of Gary's students:

"It was an important experience to work with Gary Braasch"
- Brian Bonometh, Zurich, Switzerland