Thomas Lennon is a documentary filmmaker whose films have earned him four Academy Award nominations, including one for The Warriors of Qiugang, which was co-produced by Yale Environment 360. His films have won two Emmys, two Peabody Awards, and two duPont-Columbia Journalism awards. He is director of the Documentary Film Lab at Rutgers University, where his students and recent graduates were involved in every phase of making “Marine Field Station: THE RETREAT.”