Name Carl Safina Citizenship USA Role Author | Period 1990- Partner Patricia Paladines | |
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Alma mater B.A. State University of New York at PurchaseM.S. Rutgers UniversityPh.D. Rutgers University Awards MacArthur Fellowship Nominations Goodreads Choice Awards Best Travel & Outdoors Books Song for the blue ocean, Voyage of the turtle, Eye of the Albatross, The View from Lazy Point: A N, A Sea in Flames: The Deep Profiles | ||
Organizations founded Blue Ocean Institute | ||
What do animals think and feel author carl safina on his book beyond words
Carl Safina (born 1955) is author of various books and many other writings about how the ocean is changing, lives of free-living animals, and the human relationship with the natural world. His books include among others the award-winning Song for the Blue Ocean and Eye of the Albatross, as well as The View From Lazy Point; A Natural Year in an Unnatural World, and Beyond Words; What Animals Think and Feel. He is founding president of the Safina Center, and an endowed research professor at Stony Brook University where he is active both in ocean sciences and as co-chair of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. Safina is host of the PBS series, "Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina."
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- What do animals think and feel author carl safina on his book beyond words
- Carl safina discusses his book beyond words what animals think and feel
- Biography
- Education and awards
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Carl safina discusses his book beyond words what animals think and feel
Biography
Carl Safina works to show that nature and human dignity require each other. His recent works probe the ways in which our relationship with the natural world affects human relations, and how the scientific facts imply the need for moral and ethical responses.
His early research focused on seabird ecology. In the 1990s he brought fisheries issues into the environmental mainstream. He led campaigns to ban high-seas driftnets, to re-write U.S. federal fisheries law, to work toward international conservation of tunas, sharks, and other fishes, and to achieve passage of a United Nations global fisheries treaty.
Safina, who has a PhD in ecology from Rutgers University, is the author of more than a hundred scientific and popular publications. His work has been featured in National Geographic (magazine) and in The New York Times. He has also contributed a new Foreword to Rachel Carson’s seminal work, The Sea Around Us.
Safina is the author of numerous books. His first book, Song for the Blue Ocean, was chosen a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction selection, and a Library Journal Best Science Book selection; it won the Lannan Literary Award for nonfiction.
His second book, Eye of the Albatross, won the John Burroughs Medal and the National Academies’ communications award for the year’s best book. Safina’s Voyage of the Turtle was a N.Y. Times Editors’ Choice. He published his first children’s book, Nina Delmar: The Great Whale Rescue in 2010.
The View From Lazy Point; A Natural Year in an Unnatural World was released in January, 2011. Lazy Point drew starred reviews and wide critical acclaim, was named a New York Times Editors' Choice and was National Geographic Traveler’s book of the month, and won the 2012 Orion Book Award. Safina’s chronicle of the Gulf blowout, A Sea in Flames, was released on April 19, 2011—the first anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion. A Sea in Flames is also a New York Times Editors' Choice.
He is also author of "Beyond Words; What Animals Think and Feel."
Safina has been profiled on Nightline and in The New York Times; named among “100 Notable Conservationists of the 20th Century” by Audubon magazine; and featured on the Bill Moyers PBS special “Earth on Edge.” His new TV series, Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina, premiered on PBS in April 2011.
He has honorary doctorates from the State University of New York and Long Island University. Safina is founding president of The Carl Safina Center and is adjunct professor at Stony Brook University.
Safina is a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Pew Fellow in Marine conservation, an Utne Reader visionary, and a recipient of Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo’s Rabb Medal, among other honors.
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Safina has been awarded Pew and Guggenheim Fellowships; he has also been a Senior Fellow with the World Wildlife Fund and is a MacArthur Fellow.
He has been a visiting fellow at Yale University and is an adjunct full professor at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University.