Bill Streever: “The Case for Environmental Optimism”

Join biologist, best-selling author, and new-to-Washington Countneighbor Bill Streever to talk about the case for environmental optimism and his latest book, A Sea Full of Turtles.

About Bill's writing:

"A love song to science and scientists, to Earth and everything that lives on and flies over and tunnels underneath it."

—Mary Roach, New York Times Book Review

"Streever melds historical detail with seat-of-the-pants adventure in this portrait of a force of nature."

—Discover Magazine

"Original and organic: it is flinty and tough-minded, with just enough humor glowing around the edges to keep you toasty and dry."

—Dwight Garner, New York Times

"To research the book, [Streever] didn't just study wind, he put himself at its mercy."—Terry Gross, NPR's Fresh Air

About the Presenter

Bill Streever, a biologist, is the award winning and bestselling nature writer behind In Oceans Deep, Cold, Heat, And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind, and, most recently, A Sea Full of Turtles. He began his working life as a scallop diver in Cobscook Bay before moving on to commercial diving in the oilfields of the Gulf of Mexico and the South China Sea. In his late twenties, he left the diving industry to study applied ecology. As a scientist, he worked on issues ranging from the evolution of cave crayfish to the restoration of tundra wetlands to the ecological effects of underwater noise. For the past decade he has lived aboard the cruising sailboat Rocinante (currently in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez) with his wife, marine biologist and photographer Lisanne Aerts. The two of them recently purchased land near Pembroke and plan to divide their time between Maine and their boat. When Bill is not busy fixing the boat, he spends his time sailing, diving, hiking, rowing a dinghy, paddling a kayak, seeing the world through the twin lenses of science and history, and, of course, writing. One hundred percent of his writing proceeds support conservation projects.