Chris received a BS (
cum laude) in Geology
from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, worked at the
Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History,
received a MS in Geology from the University of California
Davis and worked in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary
Biology at Harvard University before helping to start In the
Wild Productions in 1999. He is now the owner of the company and its executive director and producer. He and his videographers
have recorded over 3000 whale watching trips out of Provincetown,
Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
In the spring and fall of each year since 1999 Chris has served as the Coordinator
and Marine Science Professor for the
SEAmester
Program now at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (formerly of Southampton College of Long Island University). This college program brings 24 college students on a nine week educational
sailing adventure throughout the Caribbean and the
east coast of the US aboard the schooners
Harvey Gamage or the
Spirit of Massachusetts. He teaches classes
in Zooplankton, Coastal Geology and a Biological Survey of
Atlantic and Caribbean Coastlines and he leads the students
on long and wild field trips of discovery and adventure. Visit
UMass Dartmouth's SEAmester website to learn more about this exciting program.
Chris served as an Academic Advisor for the Center
for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, MA helping them design a series of experiential educational programs
aboard the schooner
Spirit of Massachusetts called MassSail. These programs ran successfully throughout the summers of 2005 & 2006 and are scheduled to run again in 2007.
