Carl Safina

Carl Safina

Host, Saving the Ocean

Carl Safina is a marine biologist, best-selling author and founder and president of the Blue Ocean Institute. He was recently named by Audubon magazine among the leading one hundred conservationists of the twentieth Century.

He has studied the ocean as a scientist, stood for it as an advocate, and conveyed his global travels among sea creatures and fishing people in lyrical non-fiction writing.  Safina’s early work brought ocean issues into the mainstream of wildlife conservation and led to extensive fisheries reform both in the U.S. and abroad.

Safina is the author of 2011’s critically acclaimed The View from Lazy Point. His latest book, A Sea in Flames, chronicles the 2010 Gulf oil blowout. Previous books include Song for the Blue Ocean, Eye of the Albatross, and Voyage of the Turtle.

He has been profiled by the New York Times, Nightline, and Bill Moyers’ Journal. Safina’s many awards include a Pew Fellowship, the Lannan Literary Award, the John Burroughs Medal, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Prize.

John Angier

Executive 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.

Angier was a member of the team that created the well-known Nova 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.

Angier has worked all over the world, and with many exceptional hosts and personalities. He executive-produced the landmark 10-part series, Race to Save the Planet, hosted by Meryl Streep, and produced the national Emmy award-winning Nova episode, Acid Rain: New Bad News.

His Nova episode The Plutonium Connection won a Special Citation from the prestigious international Prix Italia contest, a PBS first.  As Nova’s executive producer he won a duPont/Columbia award, and as co-executive producer of Scientific American Frontiers won the Council of Scientific Society Presidents’ Sagan Award.