Next conference: March 6-7, 2009, New York City
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FEATURED SPEAKER: DR. CARL SAFINA
President & Co-Founder, Blue Ocean InstituteDr. Carl Safina grew up fascinated by the ocean and its creatures. He now works to highlight, explain, and solve problems facing the oceans' wildlife. Safina is author of more than a hundred publications, including the books Song for the Blue Ocean, Eye of the Albatross and Voyage of the Turtle. His conservation work has been profiled in the New York Times, on Nightline, and in the Bill Moyers television special "Earth on Edge." Safina is a recipient of the Pew Scholar's Award in Conservation and the Environment, a World Wildlife Fund Senior Fellowship, the Lannan Literary Award for nonfiction, the John Burroughs Medal for literature, and a MacArthur Prize, among others. He is now president of Blue Ocean Institute, a non-profit he co-founded in 2003, which seeks to inspire a closer relationship with the sea. For more visit carlsafina.org or blueocean.org. |
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