Author-Activist Carl Safina To Headline ‘New Day For Puget Sound’ Breakfast

Dr. Carl Safina, author of Song for the Blue Ocean and The Eye of the Albatross, will be the keynote speaker at People For Puget Sound’s annual spring breakfast to be held on Tuesday, May 18, at 7:30am at the W Hotel in downtown Seattle.

The fundraiser breakfast will also honor the winners of this year’s Warren G. Magnuson Sound Legacy Award, given annually in recognition of those making Puget Sound a better place for its marine critters.

Reservations are required and can be made online.

The breakfast is free; attendees will be asked to donate to People For Puget Sound’s education, advocacy and restoration programs.

Dr. Safina received his PhD in ecology is from Rutgers University and is author of several books, and more than a hundred scientific and popular publications on ecology and oceans.

He has been profiled on Nightline and twice in the New York Times; named among “100 Notable Conservationists of the 20th Century” by Audubon magazine; and featured on the Bill Moyers PBS special “Earth on Edge.”  He has honorary doctorates from Long Island University and the State University of New York, and is adjunct professor at Stony Brook University.

The Warren G. Magnuson Sound Legacy Award has been given over the years by People For Puget Sound in recognition of work done on behalf of the marine life in Puget Sound. Awardees from previous years include: Peninsula activist Eloise Kailin, orca researcher Ken Balcomb, EarthJustice, educator Anne Murphy, and the Northwest Straits Commission.

For complete breakfast and program information, click here.

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