Nigella Hillgarth is a biologist and photographer concerned with the impacts of climate change on ocean and coastal ecosystem. During 2015 Nigella visited Christmas Island in the pacific, which is part of the Republic of Kiribati. She was struck by the intense beauty of this remote island combined with its increasing vulnerability due to rapidly rising sea levels. The photographs in this exhibit from Christmas Island show the intimate connection between this low-lying coral atoll and the surrounding ocean.

In the summer of 2017 Nigella went to the west coast of Greenland to photograph the icebergs that wait in Disco Bay before floating out into the Atlantic. Greenland’s icecap is melting faster each year, and so more ice is being pushed off the land via the large glaciers. The rapid melting of the Greenland ice and the arctic in general poses a major threat to low lying areas of the world, especially the fragile islands of the south pacific.

Previous president and CEO of the New England Aquarium, Nigella Hillgarth is a visiting scientist at the University of Washington, and a founding member of Ocean Collectiv – solutions for a healthy ocean. Nigella's work will be on exhibit January 10 - February 28th, 2018.

Please join us,Sunday, January 14, from noon to 2 p.m. for her enlightening talk and opening reception!