Jerry Lockett

Jerry Lockett has been writing about conservation, the environment, natural sciences, sailing, and the oceans for more than twenty-five years. Originally from England, he worked as a charter yacht captain in the Virgin Islands and Bahamas before moving to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1996. In 2003 and 2004 he reached the finals of the Atlantic Journalism Awards, receiving an 'Excellence in Journalism' award in both years. His first book, Captain James Cook in Atlantic Canada, won the Dartmouth Book Awards prize for non-fiction in 2011. His second, The Discovery of Weather, was published in Canada in September 2012.