A Place Where All the Snowflakes Are Still Different
New York Times, January 2, 2004
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Who Needs Baseball? Birders Have Their Own Fall Classic
New York Times, October 3, 2003
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Is the Right Whale Going Down?
By Joe Roman
Wildlife Conservation Magazine, June 2000
Winner of the Bowdoin Prize for Essay in Natural Sciences, Harvard University
Chosen as Notable Science and Nature Writing in Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000
The late-summer sun was rising over Nova Scotia when we shut down the boat. In the surrounding waters, a deep basin in the Bay of Fundy known as the Groove, about a third of the entire population of right whales in the North Atlantic was feeding. The northern right whale was known to Yankee whalers as the black whale, and as we drifted toward the concentration, the broad backs and wide tails looked slick as freshly paved asphalt.
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