David Helvarg

David Helvarg is President of the Blue Frontier Campaign
and the author of three books, BLUE FRONTIER- DISPATCHES
FROM AMERICA'S OCEAN WILDERNESS, THE WAR AGAINST THE
GREENS, and 50 WAYS TO SAVE THE OCEAN. He's
editor of the Ocean and Coastal Conservation Guide,
organizer of several 'Blue Vision' conferences for ocean
activists, and winner of Coastal Living Magazine's
2005 Leadership Award. Helvarg worked as a war correspondent
in Northern Ireland and Central America, covered a range of
issues from military science to the AIDS epidemic, and
reported from every continent including Antarctica. An
award-winning journalist, he produced more than 40 broadcast
documentaries for PBS, The Discovery Channel, and others.
His print work has appeared in publications including The
New York Times, LA Times, Smithsonian, Popular Science,
Sierra, and The Nation. He's done radio work for
Marketplace, AP radio, and Pacifica. He's led workshops for
journalists in Poland, Turkey, Tunisia, Slovakia and
Washington DC. He is a licensed Private Investigator,
body-surfer and scuba diver.