by Deborah Carr
I first met Jonathan White on the beach at Mary's Point in 2010. He was here interviewing Mary Majka as part of his research into the world's most dramatic tides. I watched as he and David Christie waded out into the mud flats, looking for the mud shrimp (corophium volulator) that provide a critical food source for the masses of shorebirds that come here each summer. He came back several times after that for more research, and we've kept in touch.
Now, after 20 years of traveling and searching for answers, Jon is returning to the Maritimes to promote his book, TIDES: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, and speak to audiences about his experiences as a 'Tide Chaser'.
Take my word for it...this has been a fascinating journey that you don't want to miss.
I first met Jonathan White on the beach at Mary's Point in 2010. He was here interviewing Mary Majka as part of his research into the world's most dramatic tides. I watched as he and David Christie waded out into the mud flats, looking for the mud shrimp (corophium volulator) that provide a critical food source for the masses of shorebirds that come here each summer. He came back several times after that for more research, and we've kept in touch.
Now, after 20 years of traveling and searching for answers, Jon is returning to the Maritimes to promote his book, TIDES: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, and speak to audiences about his experiences as a 'Tide Chaser'.
Take my word for it...this has been a fascinating journey that you don't want to miss.
From a private monastery on Mont St. Michel in France, to the violent Silver Dragon tidal bore on the Qiantang River in China; and from the aerial dance of the shorebirds on the Bay of Fundy, to his descent with the Inuit into ice caves in the Arctic, Jonathan has travelled the globe in his desire to explore the science and mystery of our phenomenal tides.
“In my research I went to those places that have dramatic tides processes at work because these are the places where the experts converge,” says White.
He'll be sharing his remarkable experiences with audiences in the Moncton area on July 11th.
“In my research I went to those places that have dramatic tides processes at work because these are the places where the experts converge,” says White.
He'll be sharing his remarkable experiences with audiences in the Moncton area on July 11th.
- 10-11AM - Hopewell Rocks Interpretive Centre (presentation and book signing) *see note below
- 2-4PM - Chapters, Dieppe (book signing)
- 5PM - Resurgo Place, 20 Mountain Road, Moncton (Free Public Presentation, sponsored by Nature Conservancy, Resurgo Place and Actus Law-Droit)
Jonathan White grew up diving, sailing and fishing on the beaches of Southern California, has logged more than 100,000 miles sailing on the Pacific and Atlantic, and has surfed all over the world. In the 1980s, he founded the Resource Institute, a nonprofit educational organization for which he hosted a renowned seminar series aboard Crusader, a 65-foot wooden schooner that sailed the Pacific Northwest. Crusader’s odysseys nearly ended, however, in 1990 when the boat ran aground and was nearly destroyed on a large tide in Alaska’s Kalinin Bay. Shaken and intrigued by his underestimation of tides and their power, White set off on a quest across the globe to better understand our planet’s most remarkable phenomena.
About the Writer: Deborah Carr has been a freelance writer and writing coach for almost 20 years, and has written about shorebirds on several occasions. She is the author of Sanctuary: The Story of Naturalist Mary Majka, the biography of the woman behind the Mary's Point Shorebird Reserve.
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