SAVING THE OCEAN Biographies Carl Safina Host, Saving the Ocean ! Carl Safina is a marine biologist, best-selling author, and founder of the conservation organization Blue Ocean Institute (www.blueocean.org). His hundred-plus publications and award-winning books include 2011’s critically acclaimed The View from Lazy Point, described by the Miami Herald as “reminiscent of Thoreau’s Walden” and by Audubon Magazine as “a true masterpiece.” A Sea in Flames, his account of the 2010 Gulf oil blowout, will be published in April 2011. He also is the author of Song for the Blue Ocean, Eye of the Albatross, and Voyage of the Turtle, and his writing has been featured in National Geographic. Safina has been profiled by the New York Times, Nightline, and Bill Moyers’ Journal. His awards include a Pew Fellowship, the Lannan Literary Award, the John Burroughs Medal, and a MacArthur Prize. John Angier Producer, Saving the Ocean John Angier has created some of public television’s most successful national programming, placing special emphasis on bringing stories of the environment and nature to the screen. He is a founding member of the team that created the well-known Nova science series on PBS. He co- created PBS’s first science magazine series, Discover: The World of Science, hosted by Peter Graves, and the long-running, popular science magazine Scientific American Frontiers, hosted by Alan Alda. His work has won many awards, including a national Emmy and two Special Citations from the prestigious Prix Italia international documentary competition. .