A naturalist and an educator, Eric Keen studied biology and religion at Sewanee: The University of the South, before graduating Phi Beta Kappa and completing a Fulbright grant in Indonesia. He has studied cetaceans in the rivers of Borneo, in the Mediterranean, in the geologic records of New Zealand, and in the fiord-lands of Chile and British Columbia. He has been published in Earth Times and the Ecologist. Eric is currently at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, pursuing a Ph.D. in the coastal ecology of large whales.