Nature as Therapy - Tierney Thys

National Geographic Emerging Explorer Tierney Thys is a marine biologist because she derives inspiration and energy from studying the world's oceans. Thys has teamed up with two other Nat Geo Explorers - Tan Le and Nalini Nadkarni. Le developed a technology to study people's brainwaves while they're looking at images of different environments (urban, forests, and oceans, for example), while Nadkarni and Thys are working to apply the technology to see if immersion in nature could have therapeutic effects on our brains. Thys calls the project "some of the most exciting explorations we've done as a species."