Rick Harbo, B.Sc., is one of the Pacific Northwest's leading marine writers and photographers. Author of the bestselling "Tidepool and Reef", "The Edible Seashore", "Guide to the Western Seashore", "Shells and Shellfish of the Pacific Northwest", and "Whelks to Whales", Harbo is a diver, teacher of marine life courses and a senior marine biologist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Nanaimo, BC, where he lives with his wife and children.