Pieter A. Folkens (illustrator) is widely acknowledged as one of
the finest illustrators of marine mammals in the world. He has
contributed to many books, including The Sierra Club Handbook of
Seals and Sirenians and The Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals
(Academic Press). He has also designed cetaceans for motion
pictures and television, including the films Star Trek IV, Flipper,
and Free Willy. He is a founding board member of the Alaska Whale
Foundation, a non-profit marine mammal research and conservation
organization, and spends his summers in Alaska studying the feeding
ecology of Killer and Humpback Whales. Folkens lives in Benicia,
California.
Randall R. Reeves (Sperm Whales, Beaked Whales, River Dolphins,
Beluga and Narwhal, Ocean Dolphins, Porpoises, Glossary) has been
involved in marine mammal work for over 25 years, ranging from
field studies in the Arctic, the North Atlantic, and the Indus and
Amazon Rivers, to archival research on the history of whaling. He
co-authored The Sierra Club Handbook of Whales and Dolphins and The
Sierra Club Handbook of Seals and Sirenians and edited Conservation
and Management of Marine Mammals (Smithsonian). Reeves holds a
Ph.D. from McGill University, Canada. Since 1997, he has served as
chairman of the Cetacean Specialist Group of the World Conservation
Union (IUCN). Reeves lives in Hudson, Quebec.
Phillip J. Clapham (Introduction, Baleen Whales) is a leading
expert on large whales. He has conducted research on a variety of
whale species around the world and has written or contributed to
several books, including Humpback Whales (Voyageur Press), Whales
of the World (Voyageur Press), and The Complete Book of North
American Mammals (Smithsonian). Clapham earned a Ph.D. in Biology
from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. He is a Research
Associate at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and
lives and works in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where he directs a
research program on large whales.
Brent S. Stewart (Polar Bear and Otters, Pinnipeds) has been
studying and writing about marine mammals since the late 1970s. He
has published many articles on marine mammals and contributed to
several books, including The Smithsonian Book of North American
Mammals and The Sierra Club Handbook of Seals and Sirenians. He
earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and
a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Stewart is a
Senior Research Biologist at Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute in
San Diego, California, and Marine Science and Foreign Affairs
Officer with the State Department in Washington, D.C.
James A. Powell (Sirenians) is recognized as an international
expert on manatees. For the past thirty years he has conducted
field research on sirenians around the world from Florida to the
West Indies and Belize, and has spent ten years in remote areas of
western Africa studying the West African Manatee. He earned a Ph.D.
in Zoology from Cambridge University, England. He is co-chair of
the Sirenia Specialist Group of the World Conservation Union
(IUCN). Powell is the Director for Aquatic Programs for the
Wildlife Trust in Sarasota, Florida.
"This wonderful synthesis of paintings, photographs, and text is a
fitting tribute to all the majestic mammals that once left the
world's waters, evolved on land, and then returned to the sea."
-Carl Zimmer, author of At the Water's Edge and Evolution: The
Triumph of an Idea "This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated
work allows a much deeper appreciation of these incredible
creatures."
-Carl Safina, Ph.D., author of "Song for the Blue Ocean" and "Eye
of the Albatross"
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