Holly Cooke

Holly is an earth scientist from South Australia who relentlessly and joyously indulges scientific wonder on her journey into our planet's unknown. She is completing her PhD at Adelaide University, where her research reaches into the deep cores of ancient continents. Tracing signals from hundreds of kilometres beneath the Earth's surface and nearly a billion years into the past, she tracks exotic magmas that ascend from the deep mantle into the crust and crystallize some of the rarest, most valuable rocks on the planet.  

Holly’s love for field science and adventure takes her around the globe, from the sun-scorched Australian outback to the wadis of Oman and the rugged Labrador coast. Now travelling with Adventure Canada, she voyages into the geological terranes of Greenland—lands that hold stories unique on the planet. From living glaciers to extraordinary mineral wealth, Holly reads these Arctic landscapes with the tools of deep time: finding, in rock and ice, a profound record of the Earth’s evolution.  

Holly uses her scientific training to craft impactful stories about the planet on her video podcast, Wonder, which she co-hosts alongside fellow geoscientist Dr. Anthony Reid. Wonder podcast elevates earth science and, indeed, its sense of wonder into cultural glue—binding people, places, histories, and futures into powerful planetary perspectives for all.