Jenny Adler

Dr. Jennifer Adler is an underwater photojournalist and National Geographic Grantee originally trained as a marine biologist. After graduating from Brown University, Jenny worked at the US Geological Survey; now, she uses her scientific expertise to inform her photography, telling visual stories about science and conservation.

A cave and free diver, Jenny has extensive photography experience in extreme underwater environments, and an ongoing theme in her work is the connection between people and water in a changing climate. This work has taken her all over the world—from Greenland and Antarctica to Palau and Zanzibar—where she has worked on stories for National Geographic, The Nature Conservancy, the Pulitzer Center, HuffPost, Vox, and others. She also teaches Science Journalism, most recently at Brown and Duke Universities.

Over the course of her career, Jenny has partnered with National Geographic on a host of projects. Her dissertation, Water’s Story, was funded in part by the National Geographic Society. Her work creating the first 360-degree virtual tour of Florida's underwater caves, as well as teaching children about freshwater, was featured in National Geographic magazine. As a Brown University Howard Foundation Fellow, Jenny spent the five years studying and documenting kelp forests on every continent. Her most recent National Geographic Storytelling Grant brought her to Japan to document the impacts of climate change on ama free divers and kelp forests. She is represented by National Geographic Image Collection and based between Boston and Cape Town, South Africa.