John Burnham, editor of Cruising World magazine, grew up sailing, fishing, and generally messing around in boats on Long Island Sound. Cruising World is the largest magazine in the world focused on cruising aboard sailboats. John is also editorial director of Sailing World magazine, where he was chief editor for more than 20 years, both reporting on and racing in events from coast to coast and ranging as far off as Sweden and Australia. Read More >>

Mark Schrader, a two-time single-handed circumnavigator of the world and the first American via the five Capes of the Southern Ocean, is intimately aware of our fragile ocean environments. A pioneer in promoting awareness of the consequences that dumping of plastics and other waste present to marine life, through lectures and print Mark has carried the message around the world and helped the Center for Environmental Education and other organizations quantify and document the scope of the problem. Read More >>

Daniel Stuermer, PhD, became fascinated with the ocean as a child growing up on the shores of southern California where he began sailing and surfing at an early age. This eventually led him to pursue a career in oceanography and earn a Ph.D. degree in the subject from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Read More >>