A Year in the Notch: Exploring the Natural History of the White Mountains

The author of Shallow Waters shares his discovery of the North Woods of New Hampshire in words and images that capture the geology, ecology, natural history, flora and fauna, and other wonders of the White Mountains and describes human impact on the region.

William Sargent is a consultant for the NOVA Science Series and has written six books about science and the environment, including Storm Surge: A Coastal Village Battles the Rising Atlantic (1995) and The Year of the Crab: Marine Animals in Modern Medicine (1988). His Shallow Waters: A Year on Cape Cod's Pleasant Bay (1981) received the Boston Globe Winship award for the best book about New England and was the basis for a NOVA film, "The Sea Behind the Dunes," selected by the National Audubon Society as the best natural history film of the year. Formerly Director of the Baltimore Aquarium and a research assistant at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Sargent presently teaches at The Briarwood Center for Marine Biology and at Harvard University.

WILLIAM SARGENT is a consultant for the NOVA Science Series and has written six books about science and the environment, including Storm Surge: A Coastal Village Battles the Rising Atlantic (1995) and The Year of the Crab: Marine Animals in Modern Medicine (1988). His Shallow Waters: A Year on Cape Cod's Pleasant Bay (1981) received the Boston Globe Winship award for the best book about New England and was the basis for a NOVA film, The Sea Behind the Dunes, selected by the National Audubon Society as the best natural history film of the year. Formerly Director of the Baltimore Aquarium and a research assistant at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Sargent presently teaches at The Briarwood Center for Marine Biology and at Harvard University.