Jeff Alexander is an award winning author and a former environmental journalist. He covered Great Lakes issues for the past 20 years for several Michigan newspapers, most recently for The Muskegon Chronicle. He currently works for the National Wildlife Federation.
    Alexander’s newspaper articles won numerous journalism awards, helped spur pollution cleanups worth more than $30 million, prompted a ban on expanded oil drilling beneath Lake Michigan and forced the U.S. Coast Guard to cancel plans to conduct live-fire weapons training on the Great Lakes.
    His first book, "The Muskegon: The Majesty and Tragedy of Michigan's Rarest River,” was published in 2006 by the Michigan State University Press.
    His new book, “Pandora’s Locks: The Opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway,” explores how allowing ocean freighters into the Great Lakes 50 years ago unleashed one of the world’s worst environmental disasters.
    Alexander is a native of Los Angeles. He resides with his family in Grand Haven, Michigan.