<link href="../Styles/Style0002.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:928b0209-fa17-4666-b8dd-79c46766ca0c" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <h1 id="heading_id_2"><b>Author Biography</b></h1> <div> <b><br/></b> </div> <div> <b><img alt="" src="../Images/Erich_Hoyt.jpg"/><br/></b> </div> <div> <b><br/></b> </div> <div> <b>Erich Hoyt</b> has spent most of his life on or near the sea, working with whales and dolphins to learn about their daily lives and to protect their habitat. He has written books on marine wildlife, ants, insects, protected areas and other natural history subjects. </div> <p>Currently a Research Fellow with Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) in England, Hoyt leads the WDC Global Critical Habitat/Marine Protected Area Programme. He also co-directs the Far East Russia Orca Project in Kamchatka. Hoyt is a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Species Survival Commission’s Cetacean Specialist Group and co-chairs the IUCN Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force. He has been a Vannevar Bush (Knight Science) Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has twice been named as a Thurber House Writer-in-Residence.</p> <p>Hoyt is the author of more than 20 books, including <i>Orca: The Whale Called Killer.</i> His work has been translated into 15 languages and published in 25 countries. The first edition of Creatures of the Deep won the Outstanding Nonfiction Book of the Year Award for 2001 from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. In 2013, he received the Mandy McMath Conservation Award from the European Cetacean Society for his body of work on marine conservation.</p> <p>Hoyt lives in England with his wife Sarah Wedden, a biomedical research scientist, and their children Moses, Maddie, Jasmine and Max.</p> </body> </html>