 ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISTS JOIN HARBOR BRANCH RESEARCHERS IN THE BAHAMAS HARBOR BRANCH INVITES WRITERS TO PARADISE 
Bruce Weide, Sneed Collard and Ruth Musgrave, (pictured from left to right) were the three
authors who went along as observers on an October cruise to the Bahamas with Edie Widder
and Tammy Frank.
Bruce Weide is writing a novel that involves ocean exploration. He and his wife, Pat Tucker, a wildlife biologist, do a lot of work in environmental education and are the founders of Wild Sentry: The Northern Rockies Ambassador Wolf Program. Sneed Collard III is the author of more than two dozen books for young people and is currently writing a biography of Edie Widder for the Wildlife Conservation Society. (To see some of the other books he's written, check out his website at http://www.author-illustr-source.com/sneedbcollard.htm). Ruth Musgrave recently wrote an article for Scientific American Explorations on Cookiecutter sharks for which she interviewed Edie Widder. They hit it off so well that they are planning a long-term collaboration to produce similar articles. Ruth worked for more than 12 years in the education department at San Diego Sea World, where she developed a wide variety of marine science programs and curricula including a marine science television series for which she was awarded 2 Emmys. In 1995 she created WhaleTimes the first marine science website for kids (www.whaletimes.org), which has had more than a million visitors, both students and adults, from all over the world. HARBOR BRANCH Oceanographic Institution, Inc., is one of the world's leading nonprofit oceanographic research organizations dedicated to exploration of the earth's oceans, estuaries and coastal regions for the benefit of mankind. |