The Safina Center is a 501(c)3 nonprofit nature conservation and environmental organization headquartered in Setauket, New York as part of Stony Brook University. It was founded in 2003 as the Blue Ocean Institute and later renamed in honor of the founder, Carl Safina.[1]
| Type | Nonprofit |
|---|---|
| 61-1406022 | |
| Legal status | 501(c)(3) |
| Headquarters | Setauket, New York |
President | Carl Safina |
| Website | https://www.safinacenter.org/ |
Formerly called | Blue Ocean Institute |
History
editThe Safina Center was founded in 2003 by Dr. Carl Safina, (PhD in Ecology from Rutgers University), a MacArthur fellow and inaugural holder of the Endowed Chair for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University.[2]
Its original focus was ocean science and policy, primarily fish and fisheries. Subsequently, their focus widened as climate-related issues such as global warming and ocean acidification made it necessary to address the global influence of energy, food production, material culture and the expanding human footprint on not just the ocean but on the living world generally.[3][4] The Safina Center began wide exploration and interpretation of how humans are changing the living world, and what those changes mean for life-supporting systems, living nature, and people.[5][6][7]
References
edit- ^ "Blue Ocean Institute Changes Name to Safina Center |". SBU News. 2014-07-08. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
- ^ "How Stony Brook Is Reshaping Global Conservation and Sustainability |". SBU News. 4 September 2019. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
- ^ Bowman, Sarah (9 June 2019). "From pigeons to seabirds and sharks, Carl Safina shares the stories of our natural world". The Indianapolis Star. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
- ^ Rae, Rowena (August 2017). Southern Ocean. Weigl Publishers. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-4896-4742-9. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
- ^ "Being Here Is Enough: Carl Safina on Animal Cognition and a Deserved Existence". Bioneers. 2017-08-23. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
- ^ Revkin, Andrew C. (2016-07-12). "A Conservationist's Call for Humans to Curb Harms to Our Animal Kin". Dot Earth Blog. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
- ^ Jacewicz, Natalie (15 March 2017). "I Want To Eat Fish Responsibly. But The Seafood Guides Are So Confusing!". NPR.org. Retrieved 15 March 2021.