Join us on our “Covered Deck turned Outdoor Living Room” to meet two incredibly talented authors whose focus is the ocean. With permitting luck, we will be serving Newport Vineyard’s “Great White Wine” in this unique Author Meet & Greet of conversation and booksignings!
Greg Skomal--in addition to being an accomplished marine biologist, underwater explorer, photographer, and author--is a leading white shark expert in the Atlantic. He is a senior fisheries biologist with the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries and currently directs the Massachusetts Shark Research Program. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts Intercampus Marine Science graduate program; an adjunct scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts; and a member of the Explorers Club and the Boston Sea Rovers. Greg has authored dozens of scientific research papers and has appeared in a number of film and television documentaries, including programs for National Geographic, Discovery Channel, PBS, and numerous television networks. He is a regular on Shark Week and Shark Fest and is the author of The Shark Handbook. He holds a master's degree from the University of Rhode Island and a PhD from Boston University. He lives with his family in Marion, Massachusetts.
Susan Casey, author of New York Times bestseller's Voices in the Ocean, The Wave, and The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks and is the former editor in chief of O, The Oprah Magazine. She is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist whose work has been featured in the Best American Science and Nature Writing, Best American Sports Writing, and Best American Magazine Writing anthologies; and has appeared in Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, and Outside.