Carl Safina
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| Born | 1955 (age 61–62) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author, Endowed Professor at Stony Brook University, founder of SafinaCenter.org |
| Language | American English |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | B.A. State University of New York at Purchase M.S. Rutgers University Ph.D. Rutgers University |
| Period | 1990- |
| Subject | Marine Ecology |
| Notable works | Song for the Blue Ocean Eye of the Albatross Voyage of the Turtle Nina Delmar and the Great Whale Rescue The View from Lazy Point A Sea in Flames Beyond Words |
| Notable awards |
Guggenheim Fellowship George B. Rabb Conservation Medal John Burroughs Writers Awards MacArthur Fellows Program Pew Fellow Shapiro Conservation Award |
| Spouse | Patricia Paladines |
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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."
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.
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