A six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council and award-
winning writer and filmmaker Bowermaster’s recently concluded OCEANS 8 project
took him and his teams around the world by sea kayak during the past ten years, on
expeditions ranging from the Aleutian Islands to Vietnam, French Polynesia to Chile/
Argentina/Bolivia, Gabon to Croatia and Tasmania to Antarctica. Seeing the world from the seat of a sea kayak has given Bowermaster a one-of-a-kind look at both the health of the planet’s ocean and the lives of the nearly 3 billion people around the globe who depend on them.

An eight-part film series documenting the OCEANS 8 project has shown in 150
countries on the National Geographic Channel. His most recent documentaries are “Terra Antarctica, Rediscovering the Seventh Continent,” “What Would Darwin Think? Man v. Nature in the Galapagos” and “SoLa, Louisiana Water Stories.”

Jon’s website and blog (Notes from Sea Level, www.jonbowermaster.com)
continues his reporting on the world’s coastlines, the people who live along them and
issues of importance to anyone interested in and concerned about the planet’s ocean.

Author of eleven books, his most recent are “Descending the Dragon” about
his travels in Vietnam published by National Geographic Books and “Wildebeest in a
Rainstorm,” a collection of profiles of our most intriguing conservationists and explorers and published by Menasha Ridge Press. His companion book to the new Jacques Perrin/ DisneyNature film “Oceans” was published alongside the premiere of the film on Earth Day, April 2010.

Bowermaster lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.