Carl Safina

Graduation is always a joyful time. For the students, a lot of hard work has paid off. And for many parents, a lot of hard paying off has worked. So I’d like to share a few commencement remarks. As a marine biologist who has earned three degrees, working toward a degree has always seemed like [...]

This blog originally appeared in Huffington Post on 2/21/12: A recent announcement about a giant new fishing boat boasted that its automation would be capable of baiting and setting 17,000 hooks per day http://bit.ly/zm2l7B. I put the announcement on my Facebook page, adding a disparaging, “We need this?” [http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=597114862&ref=name] Although dozens of people agreed with [...]

Andrew Sabin’s business involves recycling precious metals used in specialized industrial processes. But his nickname is the Salamander Commander. Last night I met him, plus Frank Quevedo who heads the South Fork Natural History Museum, and a friend of Andy’s from California named Maurice, who’d brought a friend from Hawaii named Jim. Maurice and Jim [...]

    Videos: Long-taileds diving injured duck original blog posted in Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-safina/enough-duck-shooting_b_1181848.html   This morning, I went for a walk on the beach. And from the bay, mere moments later, the muffled crack of guns. Three months of the twelve-month year, the shooting is a near-constant feature of being near the shore. The [...]

Patricia and I and our new puppy Emmi were strolling and birding along the bouldery beach at Montauk Point, Long Island, on New Year’s Day.  Mostly I was looking for seabirds. And there were thousands of ducks like scoters and eiders out feeding in the tide rips, plus many gannets over the ocean. Some Common [...]

Last weekend, I had the pleasure of having a visit by Academy-award-winning director of The Cove, Louie Psihoyos, to shoot an interview and some outdoor scenes for a new movie about extinction that he is working on. The movie will not be done for close to two years and is taking him far and wide. [...]

I recently had the opportunity to take a friend, his son, and three of his son’s teenage friends out for a morning of fishing. The friend is science writer and New York Times Dot.Earth blogger Andy Revkin. While the humaneness of fishing can validly be questioned, it’s always been my opinion that getting involved with [...]

Throughout April, Dr. Safina was called on to offer his expert opinion on topics ranging from the anniversary of the Gulf of Mexico oil rig blowout, the radioactive water leak at Japan’s quake- and tsunami-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor, and the energy crisis. Safina was interviewed by TV, radio stations and news magazines nationwide, to [...]

The New York Times has an article about a new undertaking that plans to put iron-bearing dust into the ocean to trigger plankton blooms and thereby pull carbon dioxide out of the air. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/science/07ocean.html?m&ex=1194670800&en=475f8ed8e7942ecb&ei=5087%0A Because there are so many other things we could be doing to solve the problems caused by fossil fuel dependency and [...]

Greetings to all and welcome to my blog. I’m happy to share with you my marine research, deep-water discoveries, and hopeful inspiration that finds its way to me from the ocean – whether I write from remote locations, like the South Pacific, or my home on the eastern end of Long Island. This week, I’m [...]