His work can also be found in publications such as Discover Magazine , National Geographic , Mongabay , Ocean Geographic , Coral Magazine , and Yale Environment 360 . Talbot frequently guest lectures at both secondary schools and colleges and universities, and he hosts the Midcoast Writers Group , which meets regularly in Rockland, Maine. Talbot lives on the coast of Maine with his wife, scientific illustrator Karen Talbot .
"Ret catches the grit beyond the shine, the drift beyond the waves."
"Vividly written, gorgeously developed, and as terrifyingly suspenseful as a dorsal fin slicing across the surface, this as-told-to adventure by Skomal and Talbot is far more than a brilliant autobiography of a marine biologist, on the same rolling decks as Eugenie Clark, Jacques Costeau, and Sylvia Earle, because Chasing Shadows is also the story of our profound and critical cultural relationship with sharks and how the controversial return of an apex predator to the North Atlantic might just be the conser