Carl Safina

Carl Safina is an ecologist and the author of numerous nonfiction books including the classic Song for the Blue Ocean, as well as New York Times bestseller Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel; Alfie & Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe; Eye of the Albatross; and Voyage of the Turtle. His work fuses scientific understanding, emotional connection, and a moral call to action. He is the recipient of fellowships from the MacArthur, Pew, Guggenheim, and National Science foundations; the Orion Book Award; and the John Burroughs, James Beard, and George Rabb medals. Safina is the first Endowed Professor for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University and is founding president of the not-for-profit Safina Center. He hosted the PBS series Saving the Ocean, which can be viewed free at PBS.org. His writing appears in the New York Times, TIME, the Guardian, Audubon, Yale e360, and National Geographic, and on the Web at Huffington Post, Medium, and elsewhere. He lives on Long Island, New York.