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 Marine Biogeochemistry 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 now owns the company and its executive director and producer. He and his videographers
have recorded over 6000 whale watching trips out of Provincetown and Barnstable, MA.
From 1999 to 2008 Chris was the Marine Science Professor and Coordinator of the
SEAmester
Program now at the University of Maine (formerly of Southampton College and UMass Dartmouth). This 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 taught classes
in Zooplankton, Coastal Geology and a Biological Survey of
Atlantic and Caribbean Coastlines and he led the students
on long and exciting field trips of discovery and adventure.
Chris worked as an Academic Advisor for the Provincetown Center
for Coastal Studies 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 2007.
