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Jerry Lockett has been writing about conservation, the environment, natural sciences, sailing and the oceans for more than 20 years. His magazine articles have been published in Canada, England and the USA. Credits include Atlantic Business Magazine, Atlantic Boating News, Blue Water Sailing, Conservator, The Chronicle Herald, Equinox, New Scientist, BBC Wildlife, Geographical Magazine and Cruising World. He has also developed text for several websites, including Fungus Among Us and Seaside Live for the Nova Scotia Museum and the Virtual Museum of Canada.
Originally from England, he gave up a photographic career in 1989 to spend five years as a charter yacht skipper in the Virgin Islands and Bahamas. In 1996 he settled in Halifax. In 2003 and in 2004 he reached the finals of the Atlantic Journalism Awards, receiving an 'Excellence in Journalism' award in both years. In addition to writing, he edits books for a number of publishers in Canada and the United States and operates his own business, Seahorse Communications.
- Captain James Cook in Atlantic Canada: Adventurer and Map Maker. Halifax: Formac Publishing, 2010. ISBN 0-88780-920-0.
- The Evolution of Life. Contributing author, Collins, 1987.
