James Lindholm is a distinguished professor of marine biology at California State University Monterey Bay. But he is also the author of four books (so far) in the Chris Black adventure series, which take readers on a globe-trotting adventure across the world, from Carmel-by-the-Sea to South Africa, the Galapagos Islands and more, with science at the base. The idea, Lindholm tells Lookout, is to teach readers about science and to imagine a world where scientists don’t back down.

