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The Living Sea: Lecturer Biographies

Storms and the Oceans
Kerry A. Emanuel, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Kerry Emanuel is a professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has been on the faculty since 1981, after spending three years as a faculty member at UCLA. Professor Emanuel's research interests focus on tropical meteorology and climate, with a specialty in hurricane physics. His interests also include cumulus convection, and advanced methods of sampling the atmosphere in aid of numerical weather prediction. He is the author or co-author of over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and two books, including Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes, recently released by Oxford University Press and aimed at a general audience.

Photo credit: Donna Coveney, MIT News Office

Fisheries: A Global Assessment
Carl Safina, PhD, Blue Ocean Institute

Carl Safina grew up fascinated by the ocean and its creatures.  His childhood by the shore led to scientific studies of seabirds and fish, and to his doctorate in Ecology from Rutgers University.  During his research and his recreational and part-time-commercial fishing, he noticed rapid declines in sea turtles, white marlin, sharks, tunas, and many other fishes.  It seemed to him as though a kind of "last buffalo hunt" was occurring in the seas.  For nearly two decades Dr. Safina has worked to put ocean fish conservation issues into the wildlife conservation mainstream.  He has helped lead campaigns to ban high-seas driftnets, re-write U.S.fisheries law, use international agreements toward restoring tunas, sharks, and other fishes, achieve a United Nations fisheries treaty, and reduce albatross drownings on commercial fishing lines.  Safina is author of over one hundred publications, including the books Song for the Blue Ocean, Eye of the Albatross, and Voyage of the Turtle.  He also co-authored the Seafood Lover’s Almanac. His conservation work has been profiled in the New York Times, on Nightline, and in the Bill Moyers television special “Earth on Edge.”  He is a recipient of the Pew Scholar's Award in Conservation and the Environment, a World Wildlife Fund Senior Fellowship, the Lannan Literary Award for nonfiction, the John Burroughs Medal for literature, National Academies Communications Award, Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo’s Rabb Medal, and a MacArthur Prize. Safina is an adjunct professor at Long Island University and SUNY at Stony Brook.  He is president of Blue Ocean Institute, a non-profit that he co-founded in 2003, which seeks to inspire a closer relationship with the sea.