John Moran received his BA from the University of Florida in Gainesville and his MA from Stanford University in California, where he is a PhD candidate studying social and cultural anthropology. His dissertation is an ethnography of ecoregionalism and Florida Cracker identity in Apalachicola and Panacea, Florida, an investigation framed by the commercial fishery failure of the Apalachicola Bay oyster industry and the three decades-long water dispute between Alabama, Florida, and Georgia over flows in the Apalachicola–Chattahoochee–Flint River Basin. His ethnographic allies and interests include the startling and wonderful Gulf Specimen Marine Lab, and protagonists include Wakulla Springs and the Longleaf pine forests, recorded lovingly by Janisse Ray in Ecology of a Cracker Childhood. Broadly, John looks at the intersections of economic development, ecotourism, biodiversity conservation, pedagogical nature encounter, and what people consider valuable in species. He is interested in “place” and places, both as discursive objects and sensorial landscapes (two anthropological starting points on place, scale, local, and global he recommends are Jim Ferguson’s Global Shadows and Anna Tsing’s Friction), and this grows out of his study of the anthropologies of capitalism and development, as well as of affect, multispecies ethnography, and ontology.