Mark consulted on and wrote the Royal BC Museum’s popular exhibit: Orcas: Our Shared Future – currently touring the world.
He has been chasing a whale named Moby Doll, longer than Ahab chased Moby Dick.
He is in post-production on a feature documentary he’s writing about Moby – the first orca displayed in captivity and the past, present and future of the endangered southern resident orcas, for Middle Child Films.
He directed and wrote The Hundred-Year-Old Whale, a documentary about the matriarch of the southern resident orcas that won the 2018 Writers Guild of Canada Award for Documentary.
His book about Moby Doll: The Killer Whale Who Changed the World won the 2016 Science Writers and Communicators Award and was published by Greystone in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation.
His radio documentary for CBC’s Ideas Moby Doll: The Killer Whale that Changed the World received a Webster Award for “Best Radio Documentary.”
He was also a finalist for a National Magazine Award for Best Science, Technology & Environmental Writing for his feature on Moby Doll for The Walrus.
He has written three books about whales for Orca – the all ages book Orcas Everywhere (winner of the 2020 City of Victoria Children’s Book Award); Orcas of the Salish Sea and Big Whales, Small World.
His latest books: Sharks Forever: The Mystery and History of the Planet’s Perfect Predator and Big Sharks, Small World are being released by Orca Book Publishers this fall.
I thoroughly enjoyed today’s discussion on The Current. However, I suggest you bone up on “ocean acidification” which I trust will set your mind at rest. You will have to exercise good judgement though because there is a fair amount of guff out there in the ether.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-vLFgHa4Os
Above is the link to a very short video by Alex Morton, about being sued by the fish-farm giant, Marine Harvest, for damaging a buoy with a teaspoon. (Yes, a teaspoon.)
I was thinking that Mark could write something deliriously funny about Marine Harvest — e.g., that they’re terrified by dinner forks — to get some high profile support for Alex. This is a classic shut-her-up suit.
Thank you very much.
Thanks for this.
Maybe they thought she was using a tablespoon or a spork?
I’m hoping to interview Alexandra SOON for my podcast series, Skaana!