About Blue Ocean Institute

Blue Ocean Institute, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization headquartered in Long Island, NY, was established in 2003 by Dr. Carl Safina and Mercédès Lee. Blue Ocean’s mission is to foster a closer relationship between people and the sea through science, art, and literature. Its programs inspire individuals and groups to take sustained actions to conserve nature, with a special emphasis on the ocean. Blue Ocean develops compassionate conservation solutions for people and ocean wildlife, and we share reliable information that enlightens personal choices, instills hope, and helps restore living abundance to the sea.

Blue Ocean Institute’s Sea Ethic program promotes the importance of life beneath the oceans and on earth, through books, articles, lectures and essays by Carl Safina and other staff members. The Sea Ethic program has focused on the inter-connectedness of land and sea; climate change is blurring those boundaries more than ever. As a result, Safina’s work increasingly is about the wider living natural world, our connections, our influence, and what we must do. He is building a body of written work while influencing opinion leaders with clout and substantial constituencies to create a ripple effect of his words and ideas.

Safina lectures extensively in the United States and is author of over one hundred publications. His books include Song for the Blue Ocean, Eye of the Albatross, and Voyage of the Turtle. 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, the Lannan Literary Award for nonfiction, the John Burroughs Medal for literature, the National Academies Communications Award, Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo’s Rabb Medal, and a MacArthur Prize. Safina is an adjunct professor at SUNY’s Stony Brook University School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. More information about Safina and his writings can be found at www.blueocean.org or carlsafina.wordpress.com.