William Sargent
William Sargent is a consultant for the NOVA Science Series and the author of twenty-seven books about science and the environment, including Shallow Waters: A Year on Cape Cod’s Pleasant Bay, which won the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award; Storm Surge: A Coastal Village Battles the Rising Atlantic; and Terror by Error: The COVID Chronicles, which was the first book to investigate whether Covid came about because of a lab accident. Formerly director of the Baltimore Aquarium and a research assistant at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, he has taught at the Briarwood Center for Marine Biology and at Harvard University.
