High School Project

Stacy Studebaker

P.O. Box ***

Kodiak, AK *****

907-***-**** email: **********@**.***

A highly creative, energetic individual, dedicated environmental educator and

conservationist who thrives on wild places and natural history. Kodiak, Alaska

has been Stacy s home since 1980. She was born in La Jolla California in 1947

and grew up in Bronxville, New York and Woodside, California. After getting her

Bachelor s Degree, she worked in Yosemite National Park, Glacier Bay National

Park, and Katmai National Park. She

returned to college in 1977 and earned a Master s in Science Teaching degree

before moving to Kodiak Alaska where she taught high school biology until she

retired in 2000. She has lived in Alaska for the last 35 years.

EXPERIENCE

Coordinator, Kodiak Gray Whale Project 2000-2010

In 2000, Stacy found a dead gray whale on a Kodiak beach and over a period of 8

years rallied 150 community members and partnered with the U.S. Fish and Wild-

life Service to treat the bones and reconstruct the skeleton for a permanent

display at the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center. She received a

grant from the Alaska Conservation Foundation in 2005 to finance the project

and formed her own nonprofit organization that continues to support ongoing

educational and art projects that further the awareness of conservation issues

surrounding Gray Whales and the marine environment.

Field Botanist, Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge 2005-2010

Stacy has been studying and documenting coastal Alaskan botany since 1973.

Since 2005, she has conducted botanical inventory and plant community research

in the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge. She collects plants for the University

of Alaska Museum of the North Herbarium and is considered the local expert on

Kodiak

botany. She recently self-published a field guide for the flora of Kodiak and

Southcentral Alaska.

Naturalist - Kodiak Natural History Tours 2004-2009

When cruise ships come to town and Stacy isn t in the field or volunteering at

the visitor center, she conducts marine wildlife tours aboard a local boat, The

U-Rascal. She also guides individual flora tours on the Kodiak road system and

gives presentations locally and statewide on the flora of Kodiak.

Science Teacher, Kodiak Island Borough School District 1980-2000

Stacy taught Biology, Earth Science, Botany and Environmental Studies at Kodiak

High School. In addition she was the Academic Coach for a number of competitive

extra curricular activities.

Adjunct Faculty, Kodiak College 1983-2004

Stacy taught adult education evening classes off and on including, Botany, Ex-

ploring Kodiak s Plant Life, and Birding for Beginners. In addition, she re-

ceived a grant to create a student herbarium at the college.

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Host and Co-Producer, My Green Earth, KMXT Public Radio Station 1991-1998

This award-winning weekly radio show on the environment aired throughout Alaska

and nationally by way of public radio stations as well as internationally

through Radio For Peace International, the broadcast arm of the United Nations.

Stacy wrote and co-produced over 200 individual shows on various topics from

bears and bees to the bottom of the sea. Vice-President Al Gore commended Stacy

on her work in a speech at The American University in 1996.

Musician - WATERBOUND Recordings 1985-2009

As a founding member of a local folk music group WATERBOUND, Stacy has been

writing, performing and promoting her original music about Alaskan animals and

various marine topics. The group has produced four recordings including the

most recent: An Alaskan Maritime Retrospective.

Ranger Naturalist, Biologist, Environmental Education - National Park Service1971-1979

Working as an environmental educator, biologist, and park ranger naturalist,

Stacy worked in Yosemite, Glacier Bay and Katmai National Parks.

EDUCATION

1971 - University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

Bachelor s of Fine Arts and Science Degree - Double Major (BFA)

1980 - Antioch New England Graduate School, Keene, New Hampshire

Master s Degree in Science Teaching and Environmental Education (MST)

Additional 70 hours of continuing education courses including graduate courses

in Marine Biology, Univ. of Washington.

COMMUNITY AND STATE SERVICE

Founding member of the Kodiak Audubon Society (1982) and board member, Audubon

Alaska Board of

Directors, Alaska Conservation Foundation Board of Directors, The Grenold and

Dorothy Collins Alaska

Charitable Trust Advisory Board, The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council

Public Advisory Committee (15 years, Chairman for the last 5 years), Kodiak

Emergency Services Organization, Friends of the Kodiak National Wildlife Re-

fuge, Founder of the Studebaker Family Environmental Education Fund-Alaska Con-

servation Foundation, Kodiak WhaleFest Steering Committee, Co-founder Ko-

diak Rocket Launch Information Group, Kodiak State Parks Community Advisory

Committee.

PUBLICATION

2010 Author: Wildflowers and other Plant Life of the Kodiak Archipelago A

Field Guide for the Flora of Kodiak and Southcentral Alaska -

www.kodiakwildflowers.com

2009 - Sense of Place Natural History Prints - Self designed and published

2008 - Co-authored: Kittlitz s Murrelet in the Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska -

Journal of Marine Ornithology

2008 - The Kodiak Gray Whale Project - Refuge Update Magazine - U.S. Fish and

Wildlife Service

2007 - Discovery of a Kittlitz s Murrelet Nest in Kodiak, AK. - Refuge Update

Magazine - U.S. Fish and

WIldlife Service

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2006 - Botanical Explorations in a Glacial Refugium- Refuge Update Magazine -

U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Service

2004 - Co-authored: Kodiak Audubon s HIking and Birding Guide

2004 - 2009 The Kodiak Gray Whale Project Story,

www.kodiakgraywhaleproject.org.

1994 - Color Changes During Thermal Processing of Pacific Chum Salmon - Jour-

nal of Aquatic Food Product Technology

1993 - Hydrothermal Processing of Pacific Chum Salmon, Journal of Food Quali-

ty

1989 - 2009 - Original music recordings with WATERBOUND Recordings: Life on

the Island, Sometimes a Great Ocean, Alaska Animal Tales

and Tunes, An Alaskan Maritime Retrospective .

1981 - Crowding in a National Park Campground: Katmai National Park, Environ-

ment and Behavior

1978-2008 - Published countless photographs in magazines, scientific journals,

newspapers, books, field guides, pamphlets, newsletters, and other publi-

cations including National Geographic Magazine and their books, cover photo for

American Birds Magazine.

SKILLS AND INTERESTS

Public speaking, natural history interpretation, environmental education, pho-

tography, photographic

presentations, graphic design, naturalist training, written communication, mu-

sic, art, birding, botanizing,

kayaking, hiking, conservation advocacy, conservation campaign strategy, world

travel to 44 different

countries

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