Carl Safina

Carl Safina’s work has been recognized with MacArthur, Pew, and Guggenheim Fellowships, and his writing has won Orion, Lannan, and National Academies literary awards and the John Burroughs, James Beard, and George Rabb medals. He has a PhD in ecology from Rutgers University. Safina is the inaugural holder of the endowed chair for nature and humanity at Stony Brook University, where he co-chairs the steering committee of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and is founding president of the not-for-profit organization, The Safina Center. He hosted the 10-part PBS series Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina. His writing appears in The New York Times, Audubon, Orion, and other periodicals and on the Web at National Geographic News and Views, Huffington Post, and CNN.com.

He lives on Long Island, New York with his wife Patricia, the two best beach-running dogs in the world, some chickens, a couple of parrots, and Frankie the kingsnake. 

Books in order of publication:

Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World’s Coasts and Beneath the Seas. Henry Holt and Co. (1998). 

Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival. Henry Holt and Co. (2002). 

Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth’s Last Dinosaur. Henry Holt and Co. (2006). 

Nina Delmar: The Great Whale Rescue Illustrated by Dawn Navarro Ericson. Blue Ocean Institute. (2010). 

The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World. Henry Holt and Co. (2011). 

A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout. Crown Publishers. (2011). 

Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace. Henry Holt and Co. (2020). 

Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel. Henry Holt and Co. (2015). 

Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe. W. W. Norton (2023).