PA200036Craig McClain is the Executive Director of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium in the beautiful wetlands of Southern Louisiana.  He was previously faculty at Duke University and Assistant Director of Science for the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center. He has conducted oceanographic research for 25 years and published over 60 papers in the area. He has participated in dozens of expeditions taking him to the Antarctic and the most remote regions of the Pacific and Atlantic. He founder and chief editor of Deep-Sea News, a vastly popular ocean themed blog and social media group, rated the number one ocean blog on the web and winner of numerous awards. Craig’s popular writing has been featured in Cosmos, Science Illustrated, American Scientist, Wired, Mental Floss, and Open Lab: The Best Science Writing on the Web. He as written extensively about the intersection of Southern culture and science at Deep-Sea News, Mental Floss, and Scientific American. His article How Presidential Elections Are Impacted By a 100-Million Year Old Coastline has ben liked on Facebook 7,451 times, tweeted 501 times, Google Plused 332 times, and pinned on Pinterest 705 times. This received considerable interest across the Web including influential mentions by Boing Boing and NPR.