Geoffrey Haines-Stiles

Geoff Haines-Stiles was a Senior Producer and director on Carl Sagan's original COSMOS series (3 Emmys, and the Peabody Award), and Erna Akuginow worked with Carl on the Nucleaus sequel. They partnered to create the first live broadcasts from the South Pole and the Antarctic Peninsula, and then collaborated with the Smithsonian Institution and the Brazilian government and-with the loan of the NASA Advanced Communications Technology Satellite and a team of engineers-produced the first 2-way interactive TV specials from the heart of the Amazon rainforest. Their Creation of the Universe special with an Advisory Board of 6 Nobel Laureates was one of public television's most-loved and most re-run science specials. In 2010-12 they created the 3-part PBS project on climate science and clean energy solutions, "EARTH: The Operators' Manual," which the New York Times called "one of the more interesting documentary series to come along in years." Geoff and Erna were 2013 winners of AGU's "Robert