Dalal Hanna

Dalal Hanna is an ecologist and PhD candidate at McGill University. Her work focuses on the diverse ways rivers contribute to human well-being and how protecting rivers influences their ability to make these contributions. She has studied mercury contamination in African freshwater fish, paddled more than 4,000 miles across Canada to raise funds for watershed conservation, created an urban beekeeping collective in Montreal and created and produced the podcast miniseries “Science Faction.” She was a participant in the 2017 National Geographic Young Explorer Leadership and Development Program.