05-24-2007 - Biodiversity

sagar: Author=’Lindsay Patterson’ program=” video=’9′A leatherback turtle on the beach in Papua New Guinea. Image shared by Flickr user MattKK.Carl Safina is a marine biologist by trade and a conservationist by nature. His latest book is called, “The Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the World’s Last Dinosaurs.”:http://www.amazon.com/Voyage-Turtle-Pursuit-Earths-Dinosaur/dp/product-description/0805078916

He’s also the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” grant and co-founder of the “Blue Ocean Institute”:http://www.blueocean.org.

Earth & Sky’s Lindsay Patterson spoke with Carl Safina at the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas in Austin about how science and conservation are changing as the climate faces an uncertain future. Safina explained to Patterson why he chose to follow the leatherback turtle across the world.

Written by Lindsay Patterson