Jon Bowermaster
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A six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council and award-winning writer and filmmaker Bowermaster has been writing about environmental issues for nearly three decades (exactly 20 years ago, on Earth Day 1990, he published “Saving the Earth,” an award-winning book that looked at the major environmental problems – and solutions – of the day.)

His website and blog (Notes from Sea Level, www.jonbowermaster.com) continues his reporting on the world’s coastlines, the people who live along them and issues of importance to anyone interested in and concerned about the planet’s ocean. His companion book to the brand new DisneyNature film “Oceans” will be published alongside the premiere of the film this Earth Day, April 22.

His recently concluded OCEANS 8 project took him and his teams around the world by sea kayak during the past ten years, on expeditions ranging from the Aleutian Islands to Vietnam, French Polynesia to Chile/Argentina/Bolivia, Gabon to Croatia and Tasmania to Antarctica. Seeing the world from the seat of a sea kayak has given Bowermaster a one-of-a-kind look at both the health of the planet's ocean and the lives of the nearly 3 billion people around the globe who depend on them.

Author of eleven books, his most recent are "Descending the Dragon" about his travels in Vietnam published by National Geographic Books and “Wildebeest in a Rainstorm” a collection of profiles of conservationists and adventurers published by Menasha Ridge Press.

His latest documentary films are “What Would Darwin Think?” – about man’s influence on the Galapagos – which won “Best Environmental Film” at the Vancouver International Film Festival and “SoLa: Louisiana Water Stories,” about the relationship between man, culture and the sea in southern Louisiana.

When not on the road Bowermaster lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.


www.jonbowermaster.com

Blog Entries by Jon Bowermaster

Why We Need A National Ocean Policy, Jane Lubchenco

Posted April 19, 2010 | 12:11:30 (EST)

Environmental scientist, marine ecologist and biologist, Jane Lubchenco was named administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in early 2009, the top political job in the country on ocean issues. She is using everything she has learned from her many days on the sea as a scientist and...

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Walter and Me

Posted July 23, 2009 | 17:59:27 (EST)

While most of my time these days is spent documenting the health of the world's ocean and the lives of people who depend on it, I've had a long and varied career (Rolling Stone editor, National Geographic explorer, TV commercial maker and more). Early on I even had the pleasure...

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Antarctic Evolution

Posted April 3, 2008 | 17:29:00 (EST)

It was a wild summer in Antarctica and in a bizarre way I was a first-hand witness to much of it. I spent the better part of three months down south this just-finished austral summer and saw everything the seventh continent has to throw at two-legged visitors and more:...

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