Guest Highlight: Robert Corsini
Robert Corsini is a mid-career non-fiction/documentary writer, producer and editor. . Robert has worked as producer for PBS, Discovery Netorks and NBC News and other broadcast entities over a twenty year career. He has also produced independent documentary and multi-media projects on subjects ranging from Rap music to Post-Katrina menatal health along the Gulf Coast. His current project involves ocean and marine mammals that are being very disturbed by a U.S. military program that, if approved, will soon be bombarding millions of whales and dolphins around the world with intense noise. The Surveillance Towed Array Sonar System (SURTASS) Low Frequency Active Sonar is a powerful system the Navy seeks to deploy in 80 percent of the world’s oceans. SURTASS is used to listen for noises produced by submarines, so it is called a passive sonar. Deafening noise from the LFA system will interfere with the vital biological activities of marine mammals. Scientists fear that long-term exposure to LFA could push entire populations over the brink into extinction.” nrdc.org