Dan Lizarralde

It all started when Dan Lizarralde (above) went to the Gulf of California in 2002 to explore a spreading center at the bottom of the Guaymas Basin where two of Earth’s tectonic plates are moving apart. (Photo by Adam Soule, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

It all started when Dan Lizarralde (above) went to the Gulf of California in 2002 to explore a spreading center at the bottom of the Guaymas Basin where two of Earth’s tectonic plates are moving apart. (Photo by Adam Soule, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)