His work has been featured in several national magazines and he was one of the investigators included in the National Geographic Television and Film release, Masters of the Arctic Ice, released internationally in 2005. Dr. Nweeia directs expedition field studies, laboratory analysis, and a traditional knowledge study of Inuit and Greenlandic elders to address the scientific enigma of the tusk that has puzzled the science world for over 200 years. He is determined, passionate and dedicated, and when asked when we should expect to hear the answer to the question of tusk function, quotes the Chinese proverb, "Those that say it cannot be done, should not disturb the person doing it."

Dr. Martin T. Nweeia is a National Fellow of the Explorers Club and was featured on the BBC World program Outlook, which focused on the importance of teeth in different cultures. The dentist and explorer has led two dental research expeditions. The first, to the Colombian Amazon in 1977, received an Explorers Club grant to study the migration patterns of living Indians through studies on their teeth. The second, supported by a Cleveland Foundation grant and biomedical research grants from Case Western Reserve University, documented childhood dental diseases among Ulithi Atoll children in Micronesia. Results from these studies have been presented and were published in journals of the International Association of Dental Research and the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Dr. Nweeia has also received grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution and the National Geographic Society. He was a Joseph Silber Fellow of the American Cancer Society and Graduate Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution. He is currently a Research Associate in the Marine Mammal Program at the Smithsonian.

After graduating from the Kingswood & Oxford School in West Hartford, CT, Dr. Nweeia went on to study at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, where he received a baccalaureate in biology and English. He earned his Doctorate of Dental Surgery at Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, OH, in 1984, and was later granted the degree of Doctorate of Dental Medicine from Case in 2004. After his studies in 1985, he continued postdoctoral work with noted experts in pediatrics and osseointegration in Sweden. Dr. Nweeia served for two years on the Board of Directors for the Foundation for Community Health in Sharon, CT, and was the Dental Director for the Volunteers in Medicine clinic in Great Barrington, M.A, for three years. He is a Fellow of the American College of Dentists, International College of Dentists, Academy of General Dentistry, Pierre Fauchard Academy, and Academy of Dentistry International. As editor for two professional journals, Dr. Nweeia has won the Golden Pen Award from the International College of Dentists and the Editorial Award of Excellence from the Academy of General Dentistry. He was a dental columnist for USA Today, a CBS health correspondent for ten years, and is the author of a consumer guide on dentistry. He has a full time general practice in Sharon, CT, and is a clinical instructor at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.