Our Outreach

PHOTOGRAPHY: Imagery from NWNL Watershed and Spotlight Expeditions can be viewed and purchased at PhotoShelter.

Apr ’19 Birch Wathen Lenox School, NYC, NY: “Supporting the Mara-Serengeti Ecosystem”
Feb ’19 Raritan Headwaters, Oldwick, NJ: “The Raritan & Mara River Basins”
Feb ’19 NANPA College Program, Las Vegas, Nevada: “About Wetlands”
Dec ’18 Wings WorldQuest, NYC, NY: “The Water Story as a People Story”
Nov ’18 Tewksbury Land Trust, Mountainville, NJ: “Growing Up along Raritan Streams in Tewksbury”
Sep ’18 Aqua Survey, Inc., Flemington, NJ: “The Water Story as a People Story”
Jun ’18 Aqua Survey, Inc., Princeton, NJ: “The Raritan & Mara River Basins”
Mar ’17 Birch Wathen Lenox School, NYC, NY: “A Long Walk to Water”
Feb ’17 Birch Wathen Lenox School, NYC, NY: “Water in South Sudan”
Nov ’16 Rotary Club, Morristown, NJ: “International Fresh Water Issues”
May ’16 Tewksbury Environmental Commission, Tewksbury, NJ: “Upper and Lower Raritan River Basin”
Nov ’15 iLCP WILDSpeak Symposium, Washington, DC
Nov ’15 FOTO Week DC Annual Photo Festival: “Ethiopia’s Omo River and Kenya’s Lake Turkana”
July ’15 Beacon Institute for Rivers & Estuaries, NY: “Following Rivers”
Apr ’15 Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, NJ: “Caring for Our Watersheds – Locally & Globally” w/ Judy Shaw
Apr ’15 Beacon Institute for Rivers & Estuaries, NY: “Following Rivers”
Jul ’14 The Wild Center, Adirondacks State Park, NY: “Photography as a Tool for Conservation”
Apr ’14 Water Symposium, NWNL with Alex Prud’homme, Nicholas Robinson, John Cronin, Karl Weber
Nov ’13 The Masters School, Dobbs Ferry NY: “Caring For Our Watersheds”
Feb ‘13 Baja Explorers Club Panel, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico: “Fresh Water Conservation”
Dec ‘12 Renaissance School, Springfield MA: “Water Usage and Conservation”
Dec ‘12 Beyond Blue Boundaries, NYC: “Freshwater Realities after Super Storm Sandy”
Feb ’12 Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya: “No Forests, No Water, No Peace”
Nov ’11 Franciscan Oaks, Denville NJ: “Managing our Watersheds”
Nov ’11 Clarence Dillon Library, Far Hills NJ: “Focusing on the Raritan River Basin”
Mar ’11 UN Voices of African Mothers, NYC: “Women of Africa”
Oct ’10 Sierra Club, NYC: “Managing our Freshwater Resources”
Sep ’10 St Louis Explorers Club, MO: “NWNL – Managing Watersheds”
Feb ’10 North American Nature Photograpy Association: “Following Water’s Rhythms along the Omo River”
Jan ’10 Explorers Club seminar, NYC: “Creating an Expedition-Based Project”
Jan ’10 New Canaan Country School, CT: “Managing our Fresh Water Resources”
Nov ’09 Appalachian Mountain Club, CT: “Managing our Freshwater Resources”
Nov ’09 Banbury Conference, NY: “Managing Watersheds”
Nov ’09 Masters School, NY: “Building No Water No Life”
May ’09 Birch Wathen School, NYC: “Managing Watersheds”
Apr ’09 National Arts Club, WINGS Retreat, NYC: “Discoveries and Challenges”
Apr ’09 Tewksbury Elementary School, NJ: “Trees in our Watersheds”
Apr ’09 Masters School, Dobbs Ferry NY: “Managing Watersheds”
Mar ’09 Darien Community Assoc., CT: “Managing Watersheds”
Nov ’08 Explorers Club, NYC: “Managing Watersheds”
Oct ’08 Explorers Club w/ WINGS, NYC: “Upper Columbia Expedition, 2007”
Aug ’08 Kootenay Gallery, British Columbia, Canada: “Managing Watersheds”
Oct ’07 Explorers Club w/ WINGS, NYC: “Three Expeditions in 2007”
May ’07 Masters School, Dobbs Ferry, NY: “Conservation Photography”
Apr ’07 SETAC (Soc. of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry), NJ: “Conservation Photography”

Dec ’19 Climate Digital Art Exhibit: NYC
Sept – Nov ’18 Aqua Survey, Inc.: Flemington NJ
May ’19 – Feb ’20 Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service: USA Small Towns
Sept – Nov ’18 Aqua Survey, Inc.: Flemington NJ
Oct ’18 Luna Stage: West Orange NJ
Dec ’17 – Jan ’18 Umbrella Arts Gallery: NYC
Sep ’16 – May ’17 Masters School Westchester: NY
Nov ’15 – Dec ’16 coLAB Arts and Lower Raritan Watershed Partnership (LRWP):
Apr ’16 African Rainforest Conservancy: NYC
Oct – Nov ’15 NJ Audubon Plainsboro Preserve: Cranbury NJ
May – Oct ’15 Unitarian Society: East Brunswick NJ
Apr ’15 African Rainforest Conservancy: NYC
Mar – Oct ’15 Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries: Beacon NY
Apr ’14 African Rainforest Conservancy: NYC
Oct ’14 50th Anniversary National Wilderness: Albuquerque NM
Apr ’13 African Rainforest Conservancy: NYC
Jun ’12 Arts Westchester: Westchester, NY
Apr ’12 African Rainforest Conservancy: NYC
Sep ’11 – Mar ’12 Cathedral of Saint John the Divine: NYC
Nov ’11 – Feb ’12 Worldwide Photography Biennial Exhibition: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nov ’09 Fundraiser at Gourmet Expressions: Mountainville NJ
Apr ’09 State of New Jersey Arbor Day Reception: Califon NJ
Mar ’09 Darien Nature Center: Darien CT
Nov ’08 Explorers Club: NYC
Aug ’08 Kootenay Gallery: Castlegar, Canada
May ’08 Bromfield Gallery: Boston MA

Mar ’22 Society of Woman Geographers Flag Carriers Exhibition: Washington DC

2012-Now
Jun ’21 Swara Magazine, Artist Profile: Alison M. Jones
Aug ’16 Two River Times, Seeing the Raritan Bay in a New Way 
Jun ’16 Huffington Post, Will the World take Action to Stop the Destruction of a Unique Global Heritage
Apr ’15 Hudson Family Almanac Weekly, No Water No Life Exhibit at Beacon Institute
Apr ’15 Phillipstown.info, Watershed Moments
Mar ’15 Poughkeepsie Journal, Water a Commodity Nurtured by Photographer’s Lens 
Jan ’15 Rutgers University Press, The Raritan River – Our Landscape, Our Legacy
Fall ’14 The Masters School Bulletin, Year-Long Study Culminates in Water Symposium
Sep ’14 Teche News, No Water No Life Visits Belle River
Mar ’14 A Travelers Journey, Changing the World One Drop at a Time: An Interview with No Water No Life 
Mar ’14  Somaliland Press, The Race to Save Ethiopians Damned by the Dam 
Dec ’12 Live Green Be Green, No Water No Life on a Green Mission
Dec ’12 Oh For The Love of Science!, Blue Beyond Borders – A Hurricane Sandy Benefit
Jun ’12 Sea Speak Sphere, Message in a Bottle

2007-2011
Nov ’11 Africa Geographic, Cry Me A River
Fall ’11 The Explorer’s Log, Conservation Column 
Aug ’11 African Rainforest Conservancy, Artist Spotlight: Alison M. Jones
Jul ’11 International Rivers, UN Body Calls for Suspension to Gibe III Dam to Protect World Heritage Site
Jun ’11 The Huffington Post, Nature Photography by Alison Jones Highlights Water Issues
Sep ’10 The Ladue News, Water is Life
Sep ’10 St. Louis Post Dispatch, Water Researcher and Explorer Talks to Explorer’s Club
Sep ’10 St. Louis Beacon, World’s Water Problems Are Our Water Problems
Jul ’10  International Rivers Report
Jul ’10 Discovery’s Planet Green, Six Green Campaigns That Really Caught Our Attention
Mar ’10 World Rivers Review, The Fine Art of Watershed Protection
Jan ’10 Expedition News, Trip Report: No Water No Life’s Mara River Basin Expedition
Sep ’09 World Rivers Review, African Bank to Investigate Ethiopian Dam Concerns 
Sep ’09 Mara River Flows Newsletter, Mara 09′ Documentary
Fall ’09 Currents, Shooting For Conservation
May ’09 International Rivers, Ethiopian’s Gibe III Dam: Showing Hunger and Conflict
Aug ’08 The Invermere Valley Echo, World’s Most Dammed River
Jun ’08 Alive Magazine, No Water, No Life: An Interview with Alison Jones
Apr ’08 The Jackson Free Press, Barefoot in the Delta
Apr ’08 World Ark Magazine, Designing New Technologies For A Better Life

Pre NWNL-2006
Win ’06 Social Register Observer, An Eye to Conservation: A Photographer’s Credo
Sum ’01 Photographer’s Forum, A Visual Anthropology with Alison Jones
Aug ’93 The Connecticut Post, Norwalker Helps Midwest Victims, Depicts Flooding

For more information on the following publications please contact us at info@nowater-nolife.org.

The following books have highlighted NWNL photography, accomplishments and focus. 

Atchafalaya Basin by Dr. Brian Piazza, The Nature Conservancy-Louisiana
Conservation Photography Handbook by Boyd Norton
Dinner edited by Harvey Stein
Environmental Photographers of the Year, 2014 by CIWEM
Missouri River Country by Dan Burkhardt
Our National Parks by International League of Conservation Photographers
Rivertalk by Ojai Center for the Arts [CA]
The Loupe by Amy Gulik, North American Nature Photography Association
The Raritan River by Dr. Judith Auer Shaw, Rutgers University Press
They Lived to Tell the Tale (“On the Edge)” by Lyons Press
Think Like a Photographer by Dr. Frank Greenagel, Mondo Press

’19 Lighthawk: Granted 2 overflights of Raritan River Basin
’19 The Explorers Club: Granted Fellowship Status
’16 North American Nature Photography Association: Philip Hyde Award
’15 Texas Rural Water Photostream Contest: Grand Prize & 4 First Places
’15 Far Hills Country Day School: Distinguished Alumni Award for NWNL
’12 UNESCO World Heritage Rivers Contest, International Rivers: Second Place
’11 International League of Conservation Photographers, Photographer of the Month: May
’11 International Color Awards, Masters Cup: “Children of the World,” First Place
’11 Rutgers University and Raritan Sustainable Initiative: Eagle Conservation Award
’10 International Color Awards, Masters Cup: “Portraits,” Honorable Mention
’10 Chicago Photo Forum, International Photo Award
’10 Global Woman Magazine: “Portrait,” First Place
’10 WINGS World Quest: Expedition Flag (Uganda, Nile River Basin)
’10 Environmental Photographer of the Year: “Exceptional Image”
’10 Chicago Photo Forum: International Photo Award
’10 Global Woman Magazine: Portrait Award
’09 World Wide Photography Gala: Finalist
’09 Windland Smith Rice International: “Nature’s Best,” Semi-Finalist
’09 Scott Pearlman Field Award (Mara River Basin)
’09 Prix de Photographie, Paris: “Thirst in the Omo Valley”
’09 Photography Masters Cup, London: “Omo River Basin,” 4 First Places
’09 Explorers Club: Expedition Flag (Mara River Basin)
’09 WINGS WorldQuest: Expedition Flag (Mara River Basin)
’09 Windland Smith Rice International, Nature’s Best: Semi-finalist
’08 Blow-Up Exhibit: Winner
’07 Scott Pearlman Field Award (Columbia River Basin)
’07 Columbia University, CERC Forest Ecology Report: Commendation
’07 Eliza Bailey Masters Award: Community Service
’07 Explorers Club: Expedition Flag (Columbia River Basin)
’07 WINGS WorldQuest: Expedition Flag (Columbia River Basin)
’07 Columbia University/CERC “Forest Ecology:” Report Commendation
’07 Eliza Bailey Masters Award, Masters School: Community Service Commitment