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James
Christian's Mother, Anthea was raised in Kenya on a farm near
Nyahururu and his father, Michael, an American, worked for the
Kenyan Government in the 1960s after Independance. James has traveled
throughout Africa and first visited Kenya when he was only five
years old. Since then he has been on safari to all the corners
of East Africa and it was his early experiences in Kenya with
his parents that lead to his studies in Wildlife Biology and a
lifelong passion for animals and ecology. |
Education:
1994
The School
Of Natural Resources, The University of Vermont Burlington,
VT, USA Awarded. Bachelor of Science Degree, May 1994, Major -
Wildlife Biology. |
Work Experience:
Wildlife
Biologist : Conducting surveys and research with Massachusetts
and federally listed species of wildlife. Trapping and radio-tracking
spotted
turtles, wood
turtles and blanding's
turtles. Also inventoring four-toed salamanders and blue spotted
salamanders populations at various project sites. |
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Field Technician:
Conducted surveys of breeding birds by distance sample point counts
in The Black Hills, South Dakota. |
2001 -
2002 Orca Films, Nevada City
Wildlife
Cinematographer: Shot super 16mm footage of Bobcats, California
Sealions and Elephant Seals for Doug Bertran of Orca Films. |
Spring
2000 / Spring 2001- Paler
Graphics San Francisco, CA
Production
Assistant : Supporting graphic artist with web production and
design. Extensively using Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop,
Final Cut Pro and Media Cleaner. |
Summer
1997 / Spring 2000 - Sharpshin Productions San Francisco,
CA
Shot and
Co-produced A Brother Returns, a documentary on the release of
California Condors in northern Arizona. A Brother Returns was
a finalist at The International
Wildlife Film Festival. My Footage has appeared on PBS's
NATURE, CBS's SUNDAY MORNING, and Gamewarden Wildlife Journal. |
Spring
/ Summer 2000 - The University of California Berkeley,
CA
Field Technician:
Conducted radio telemetry study of Marbled
Murrelets by aerial and truck surveys. Extensive searching
through old growth habitat for nests of this poorly understood
endangered species. |
Spring
/ Summer 1999 - Kern River Research Center Onyx,
CA
Field Assistant:
Surveyed for Yellow-billed
Cuckoos by song playback. Photographed and inventoried habitats
occupied by this sharply declining species. |
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Field Assistant:
Sampled breeding birds by song in Great Smoky Mountains National
Park for Dr. Ted Simons, utilizing distance sample point counts.
Performed vegetation sampling and collected Global Positioning
Data. |
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Aplomado
Falcon Release Attendant: Strengthened radio telemetry skills
tracking 17 Aplomado
Falcons at a release site in south Texas. Assisted in the
observation of the first breeding pair of Aplomado Falcons in
the United States since 1952. |
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Research
Technician: Conducted wetland demarcation, vernal pool certification,
wildlife inventories and surveys for state and federally listed
species. Conducted a mark-recapture
experiment to evaluate the population densities of a protected
salamander. |
1987 -
1995 Anthea Christian Safaris Concord, MA
Guided clients
on safari in Kenya, interpreting the ecology and wildlife for
visitors. |
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Guided fly-fisherman
in a fly-out fishing lodge in Alaska's Katmai National Park. |
Additional:
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2004
Published SWARA, The Magazine of the East African Wildlife
Society
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2003
Condor Footage appears at Arkive.org
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Published
in Apalachian Mountain Club Journal March 2003
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Assistant
Camera Workshop 1999, Film
Arts Foundation San Francisco, CA
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Field Sound recording 1998,Nature
Sound Society, Oakland, CA
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AVID
Media Composer Certificate 1998 Bay
Area Video Coalition, San Francisco, CA
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Interview
Techniques 1997, Media
Alliance San Francisco, CA
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James Christian (photography)
