Programs produced, directed and/or written by Geoff Haines-Stiles and Erna Akuginow, either individually or through PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE/GHSPi have been honored with America's most prestigious awards, including three national Emmys, the George Foster Peabody Award, the Ohio State award for Television Excellence, the AAAS award for Broadcast Journalism, and many more. In 2013, Haines-Stiles and Akuginow were recipients of AGU's Robert C. Cowen Award for "Sustained Contributions to Science Journalism." The citation read, in part:
Akuginow and Haines-Stiles were honored for more than 30 years of pioneering documentary films and television series that explore Earth and space sciences with remarkable breadth and depth and astute perception of what's new, important, and fascinating in science... The award also recognizes Akuginow and Haines-Stiles for contributing to excellence in science communication through extraordinary opportunities they created for scientists and general audiences to share knowledge and excitement about science in events the filmmakers organized in museums or other venues and on social media.
Earlier awards include:
Consensus Sense & We Brake 4 Climate (AAAS)
The Real PlutoPhiles (NASA, APL)
ETOM (PBS)
Kili 2012 (NSF, The GLOBE Program)
Passport to Pluto and Beyond (Science Channel, NASA-TV)
Looking for Life
To Mars With MER
The PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE Series (Public TV and NASA-TV)
Lily Tomlin's "Search For Signs Of Intelligent Life in the Universe" (Creative Consultant to the feature film)
CHILDHOOD (WNET, PBS)
American Patchwork with Alan Lomax (PBS)
Together to Mars? (KCET/PBS)
Life on Ice: Antarctica and Mars (PBS)
Overdrawn At The Memory Bank (American Playhouse, PBS)
NOVA (PBS)
Creation Of The Universe (PBS)
Cousteau Odyssey (Production Executive, KCET, PBS)
Music in Time (PBS)
COSMOS (PBS)
EYE ON... (CBS)