Carl Safina

Carl Safina’s writing about the living world has won a MacArthur “genius” prize, Pew, and Guggenheim Fellowships; book awards from Lannan, Orion, and the National Academies; and the John Burroughs, James Beard, and George Rabb medals.

His seabird studies earned a PhD in ecology from Rutgers; he then spent a decade working to ban high-seas drift nets and to overhaul U.S. fishing policy. These days his focus is writing and speaking. Safina is now the first Endowed Professor for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University (where he formerly co-chaired the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science), and he runs the not-for-profit Safina Center. He hosted the PBS series Saving the Ocean. His writing appears in The New York Times, TIME, Audubon, and on the Web at National Geographic News and Views, Huffington Post, CNN.com, and elsewhere. He is author of the classic book, Song for the Blue Ocean. Carl’s seventh book is Beyond Words; What Animals Think and Feel. He lives on Long Island, New York with his wife Patricia and their dogs and feathered friends.

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Notable works, coverage and accomplishments

• Biodiversity: hopes and fears for the next 10 years. The Guardian (article by Phoebe Weston and Patrick Greenfield, includes interview with Carl Safina). 2019.
• The real case for saving species: We don’t need them, but they need us. YaleE360. (2019).
• When you teach a boy to fish, by Carl Safina. Human Parts/Medium. (2019).
• This brutal creature is wiping out everything besides itself, by Carl Safina. CNN. (2019).
• Pain is a subjective thing, or is it? a radio interview with Carl Safina and others. The Colin McEnroe Show/Connecticut Public Radio. (2019).
• Beyond Words: What elephants and whales think and feel, a young reader’s adaptation of The New York Times bestseller, by Carl Safina. E-book and hardcover editions. Roaring Book Press. (2019).