The People Behind SAVING THE OCEAN
Dr. Carl Safina, on-camera host for the series, is a marine biologist by training, best-selling author of popular books about ocean subjects, and founder of the conservation organization, Blue Ocean Institute.
Carl Safina on location in East Africa.
Safina 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. His hundred-plus publications and award-winning books include Song for the Blue Ocean, Eye of the Albatross and Voyage of the Turtle. His latest book, The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World, has received wide critical acclaim. He's been profiled by The New York Times, Nightline, and Bill Moyers. His awards include a Pew Fellowship, Lannan Literary Award, John Burroughs Medal, and a MacArthur Prize, among others (not forgetting the Popular Science "Worst Jobs in Science" Award, second place).
John Angier, series producer, has been involved in the creation of some of public television's most successful programming. He is a founding member of the team that created the 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.
John Angier (foreground) at Glover's Reef, Belize with cameraman Tony Flanagan.
Throughout his producing career Angier has aimed to combine great entertainment with compelling information. He has worked all over the world, and with many exceptional hosts and personalities, with special emphasis on stories of the environment and nature.
Angier 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, the first PBS entry to do so. 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, "For outstanding achievement in improving the public understanding and appreciation of science."
