Saturday, March 2, 2013, at 2 p.m., San Leandro Main Library

Moby-Duck by Donovan Hohn

Donovan Hohn's biography from his official website:  ...[R]ecipient of the Whiting Writers’ Award, a 2010 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, Hopwood Awards in essay and poetry, and a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship. His work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, and Outside, among other publications. Moby-Duck was a finalist for the Helen Bernstein Prize for Excellence in Journalism and runner-up for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. A former features editor of GQ and contributing editor of Harper’s, Hohn is now a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he has begun work on a second book. Below is a video of him discussing Moby-Duck (via YouTube).


Introducing

Evan "Big Poppa" Drellich, the student who sparked Donovan Hohn's interest in the bath toys lost at sea, now a writer for mlb.com.

Curtis Ebbesmeyer, and Beachcombers' Alert.










Captain Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Institute talking about plastic in the environment.


"Iron Eyes Cody"

The plastic duck found in the British Isles, which turned out not to be a Floatee.







Six degrees of freedom.

A TED talk about adaptive aids from Amy Bower, "the blind oceanographer," from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI).


Among many others.