Английская Википедия:Carl Safina
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Carl Safina (born May 23, 1955) is an American ecologist and author of books and other writings about the human relationship with the natural world. His books include Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace; Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel; Song for the Blue Ocean; Eye of the Albatross; The View From Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World; and others. He is the founding president of the Safina Center, and is inaugural holder of the Carl Safina Endowed Chair for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University. Safina hosted the PBS series Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina.
Early life and education
Carl Safina was born in Brooklyn, New York to Italian Americans (his grandparents were from Sicily.) At age ten he moved with his family into the new and rapidly expanding suburbs of Long Island, New York. As a teen Safina spent free hours fishing, camping, and hiking near his home. Rapid building and construction on Long Island caused him to witness destruction of woodlands and other natural habitats, which made another deep and personal impression.[1]
He received a degree in environmental science at the State University of New York at Purchase.[1] Later at Rutgers University he earned master's and PhD degrees in ecology for his studies of seabirds.
Career
Safina's first book, Song for the Blue Ocean, 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 New York Times Editors' Choice. In 2011, The View From Lazy Point was a New York Times Editors' Choice, a National Geographic TravelerШаблон:'s book of the month and received the Orion Book Award. Also in 2011, his chronicle of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, A Sea in Flames, was a New York Times Editors' Choice. His work has been featured in National Geographic and in The New York Times and other publications. He contributed a new foreword to Rachel Carson's seminal work, The Sea Around Us.
Safina is inaugural holder of the Endowed Chair for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University. He has been a visiting fellow at Yale University and a senior fellow with the World Wildlife Fund. Safina is also a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Pew Fellow in Marine conservation, and a recipient of Chicago's Brookfield Zoo's Rabb Medal.[2] Safina was named among "100 Notable Conservationists of the 20th Century" by Audubon magazine.
His 10-part TV series, Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina, premiered on PBS in April 2011.
Bibliography
- Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas. Henry Holt and Co. (1998). Шаблон:ISBN[3][4]
- Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival. Henry Holt and Co. (2002). Шаблон:ISBN
- Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur. Henry Holt and Co. (2006). Шаблон:ISBN
- Nina Delmar: The Great Whale Rescue Illustrated by Dawn Navarro Ericson. Blue Ocean Institute. (2010). Шаблон:ISBN
- The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World. Henry Holt and Co. (2011). Шаблон:ISBN[5]
- A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout. Crown Publishers. (2011). Шаблон:ISBN
- Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace. Henry Holt and Co. (2020). Шаблон:ISBN
- Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel. Henry Holt and Co. (2015). Шаблон:ISBN
- Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe. W. W. Norton (2023). Шаблон:ISBN
References
External links
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- Personal website
- Biography of Carl Safina in Current Biography Magazine
- Safina Center official website
- Carl Safina on the BP Oil Spill’s Ecological Impact on the Gulf Coast and Worldwide - video report by Democracy Now!
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