Endowed Professor for Nature and Humanity, Stony Brook University; Founder, The Safina Center
Carl Safina’s bestselling lyrical non-fiction writing about the living world has won a MacArthur “genius” prize; received Pew, Guggenheim, and National Science Foundation fellowships; earned book awards from the National Academies, the Lannan Foundation, and Orion Magazine; and been recognized with John Burroughs, James Beard, and George Rabb medals. Two of his many books have been New York Times Notable Books of the Year.
Safina grew up raising pigeons, training hawks and owls, and spending as many days and nights in the woods and on the water as he could. His studies of seabirds earned him a PhD in ecology from Rutgers University. He then spent a decade working to ban high-seas drift nets and to overhaul U.S. fishing policy.
He is the first Endowed Professor for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University, and founder of the not-for-profit Safina Center. His writing appears in the New York Times, Time, The Guardian, Audubon, National Geographic, on the Web at CNN.com, Yale e360, and elsewhere, and his PBS series Saving the Ocean can be viewed online. He has been a featured guest of Bill Moyers, Martha Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Oprah Winfrey. Carl serves on the national board of the American Bird Conservancy. He lives on Long Island, New York, with his wife, Patricia, and their dogs and feathered friends.