Southern Maine Conservation Collaborative and Portland Public Library are pleased to announce the 2018 Sustainability Series Keynote: Colin Woodard to present Ocean’s End: The Crisis in the World’s Seas and the Gulf of Maine.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: COLIN WOODARD

Author and journalist Colin Woodard State & National Affairs Writer at the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram, where he won a 2012 George Polk Award, was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a series on climate change and the Gulf of Maine. He covered environmental and science issues extensively from around the globe while a foreign correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, The Chronicle of Higher Education and The San Francisco Chronicle, and reported from more than fifty foreign countries and seven continents, He’s the author of five books, including The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier, a cultural and environmental history of coastal Maine, and Ocean’s End: Travels Through Endangered Seas (Basic Books, 2000), a globetrotting account of the deterioration of the world’s oceans. He’s currently a contributing editor at POLITICO and a trustee of the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Boothbay.

Ocean’s End: The Crisis in the World’s Seas and the Gulf of Maine

18 years after his call to action book, Ocean’s End: Travels Through Endangered Seas Woodard, who has reported from around the world on the deterioration of the marine realm, discusses why the oceans — and the Gulf of Maine — are in trouble and what can be done about it.

About the book: Ocean’s End is a narrative non-fiction account of the ongoing destruction of the world’s oceans and what can be done to save them. Readers are taken on a global journey — from the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and the coral reefs of Belize to the tiny atolls of the central Pacific and the collapsing ice shelves of Antarctica — to witness how people’s lives are already being affected by the impoverishment of our ocean planet.