Join us at Hopkins Marine Station for an author event celebrating prolific author, accomplished journalist, documentary producer, and tireless ocean activist, David Helvarg, and his new book, Forest of the Sea: The Remarkable Life and Imperiled Future of Kelp. A powerful call to action that shows how science, culture, and hope can converge to restore one of Earth's most vital marine habitat

David Helvarg is Founder and Executive Director of Blue Frontier, a national ocean policy group based in Richmond. Tonight he’ll discuss his newest book, Forest of the Sea, named one of the Top 10 Science books of the spring by Publishers Weekly, it’s gotten great reviews from Ted Danson, Leon Panetta, Sylva Earle and others. He’ll discuss how kelp forests – including off California - are hugely productive ecosystems, larger than the Amazon Rainforest and equally threatened even as they provide us food security, storm protection, oxygen and more. He’ll talk of adventuring around the world to tell the story of kelp, climate and the Ocean  

A prolific journalist, Helvarg has written more than 600 articles, 40 documentaries and is the author of six past books:

• Blue Frontier
• The War Against the Greens
• 50 Ways to Save the Ocean
• Rescue Warriors
• Saved by the Sea
• The Golden Shore

Helvarg co-founded the Peter Benchley Ocean Awards, is a Sr. Fellow with the Center for the Blue Economy and Executive Producer of the new, award-winning film Sequoias of the Sea.  

He’s 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 producer for PBS, Marketplace and others, he is also a licensed Private Investigator, body-surfer and scuba diver.