Ariel Waldman is an explorer, filmmaker and writer[1] specializing in the intersection of science, space, technology and art.

"[2] Ariel Waldman is the director of “Antarctica Unearthed”, a nature documentary about the McMurdo Dry Valleys, which she filmed entirely solo without a film crew during her two month expedition as a researcher with the McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER team.

[3] In 2018, she traveled to Antarctica for five weeks as a principal investigator with the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists and Writers program.

[4] She climbed glaciers and camped in the Dry Valleys in order to photograph microbes living in extreme environments.

[6] She co-authored "Pathways to Exploration," a 2014 report from the National Academies on the future of human spaceflight.