# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dawn-j-wright
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:11:02.029Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dawn-j-wright"
name: "Dawn J. Wright"
slug: "dawn-j-wright"
description: "Dawn Jeannine Wright is an American geographer and oceanographer. She is a leading authority in the application of geographic information system (GIS) technology to the field of ocean and coastal science and played a key role in creating the first GIS data model for the oceans. Wright is Chief Scientist of the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri). She has also been a professor of geography and oceanography at Oregon State University since 1995 and is a former Oregon Professor of the Year as named by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Wright was the first Black female to dive to the ocean floor in the deep submersible ALVIN. On July 12, 2022, she became the first and only Black person to dive to Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth, and to successfully operate a side scan sonar at full-ocean depth."
tagline: "American geographer and oceanographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dawn_Wright.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1961-04-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ডন রাইট"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump