Management Service

LOUISE KANE

Producer & Outreach Specialist

PO Box 1333

W. Chatham, MA 02669

Tel: 508-***-****

Fax: 508-***-****

Cell: 508-***-****

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EDUCATION

Kane Productions

**** *asters of Marine Affairs (GPA 3.8)

University of Rhode Island

Thesis Film: The Evolving Science of Marine Resource and Habitat Restoration

Course work: Resource Economics, Admiralty Law,

Coastal and Ocean Management Law, Oceanography

1992 Juris Doctor

Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA

Dissertation: The Oil Pollution Act of 1990

1990 Bachelor of Arts (Magna Cum Laude)

Wheaton College, Norton, MA

Dual degrees, Honors: Political Science & Black History

Political Science Department: Daniel Lewin Prize, highest GPA for graduating class

History, departmental honors for thesis: Surviving Slavery and Patriarchy, 1990

Endowed scholarships: Annie E Carter, 1989

1985 -1987 Associate of Arts (Summa Cum Laude)

Cape Cod Community College, Barnstable, MA

Major: History

Honors: World Federalist Award, outstanding scholar in History

Endowed scholarships: Doris B Fauteaux, 1987

Cape Cod Community College Educational Scholarship

Citizen s Scholarship Foundation of America, Chatham Chapter

1992- 02 Virgin Island s Bar Association

COMPUTER TRAINING

2000 PageMaker

2000 PhotoShop

Word, Word Perfect, Windows, Excel, Paradox

Mac (some AVID experience)

CONTRACTS, OUTREACH

1996 2002 NOAA Restoration Center

Outreach Specialist

Production of outreach materials including

web-based photo archive, conference panels, program brochure,

press releases, fact sheets, and video materials.

2001 2002 Tim L. Robertson Consulting

Created design and layout for a series of

geographic response strategy oil spill maps for

Kachemak Bay and SE Alaska.

1996-1997 National Marine Fisheries Service

Office of Habitat Conservation, Protected Resources

NOAA Team Member supervising implementation for the final rule

for the essential fish habitat initiative under

the Magnuson-Stevens Act.

NOAA Headquarters Lead to the North East Regional Fisheries Councils

(Mid-Atlantic and New England). Provided advice to councils on

meeting an October 98' mandate to fulfill requirements under the

Magnuson-Stevens Sustainable Fisheries Act.

Steering Committee Member for New England and Mid Atlantic Councils

for review of habitat sections for the fishery management plan amendments

including life histories and habitat requirements by life stage. Wrote sections

of the final rule and technical guidance manual.

NOAA Gear Impacts Team member for the gear impacts division

investigating gear impacts to sea floor habitats.

2000 2001 GRAPHIC DESIGN AND LAYOUT

NOAA, Tim L Robertson Consulting, and US Fish and Wildlife Service

Products include, NOAA Restoration Brochure, aquaculture poster for

NOAA conference, NOAA RC conference panels,

Geographic response strategy maps, fact sheets, and press releases.

Web page and ad designs for new clients.

Louise Kane and Kane Productions work in affiliation with Garry Gates Designs

for many graphic projects.

CONTRACTS, DOCUMENTARY FILM & VIDEO

National Marine Sanctuaries Program

Work in progress:

First Aid for Coral Reefs: The Evolving Science of Reef Restoration

with a grant funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

and NOAA funding.

Discovery News and Discovery

Science of the Deep

NOAA Office of Habitat Conservation

2000 A Community Approach to Habitat Restoration:

The Adobe Creek Story

1999 After the Spill: Restoring an Estuary

1998 The Mona Island Coral Reef Restoration.

2000 Restoring Our Nation s Estuaries

(NOAA & Darden Industries)

Sea Grant

1997 Fish Nursery Habitat in the New York Bight: Beyond the Estuary

1991-2002 COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION, FILM & VIDEO

POSITIONS INCLUDED PRODUCER, COORDINATOR, ART DEPARTMENT

Product Client

British Airways Portelly Films, London

BMW Z8 Uwe Duttmann Studio

Lexus Froomer Pictures

Young & Restless CBS

Ebb Tide Granada TV, London

Kent 93, 95, 97 & 99 Brett Froomer Studios

Raffaelo Chocolates 93'&94' Director s Film Company

Norwegian Cruise Lines Ritts Hayden

L Oreal Sonero Pugliese Associates

Heineken Licata International

Kelloggs Walker Dobney, London

AT&T Propaganda Films

Tostitos Plum Productions

Coors Light Pilot Films

FESTIVAL AND INDUSTRY AWARDS

1998, Communicator s Television and Broadcast

Crystal Award for Excellence

Mona Island Coral Reef Restoration

environmental documentary category

1999, Worldfest Houston International Film Festival

Silver and Bronze Awards

After the Spill: Restoring an Estuary

Mona Island Coral Reef Restoration

underwater documentary categories

2001, Worldfest Houston International Film Festival

Silver Award

Restoring Our Nation s Estuaries

2001, Worldfest Houston International Film Festival

Bronze Award

A Community Approach to Habitat Restoration:

The Adobe Creek Story

PUBLICATIONS

The Legacy of the North Cape Spill:

A New Legal Environment for the Tug and Barge Industry

Ocean and Coastal Law Journal (1999)

The Mona Island Coral Reef Restoration (1999)

Rhode Island s Legislative Response to the North Cape Oil Spill

Coastal Zone 97 (1997)

Surviving Slavery and Patriarchy Thesis

History Department, Wheaton College (1989)

FELLOWSHIPS

1997-1998 John Knauss Marine Science and Policy Fellowship

(Sea Grant), Washington DC

1995-1996 Rhode Island Senate Fiscal and Policy Fellow

Providence, Rhode Island, Policy Advisor

Organized and coordinated

The Special Senate Commission Investigating The North Cape Oil Spill

and all related proceedings, press statements and research.

Produced and wrote an analysis of the implications for Rhode Island s

legislative response to the spill.

Co-authored four pieces of oil-spill preventative legislation

in the aftermath of the North Cape oil spill, Rhode Island s largest oil spill event.

Coordinated with Save the Bay, National Resources Defense Council,

and NOAA to ensure passage of the bill.

Produced and co-authored the final report of the commission

and testified before the Massachusetts legislature

in support of similarly introduced legislation.

1995-1996- Coastal Resources Center

Wrote and produced a sixty+ page primer on

integrated coastal management and the management tools

used by coastal managers in developing countries.

PROFESSIONAL FILM AND VIDEO COURSES AND SEMINARS

Women in Film and Video, The Documentary (Washington DC)

Boston Film and Video

Public Television Studio and Field Production 1 & 2

C3TV, Yarmouth, MA

GRANTS

2001 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

Grant awarded for coral reef restoration documentary

1995 Massachusetts Cultural Councils

Eight towns awarded grants for production of an on oral history

of local fishermen

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

April 1996 Testimony before the Massachusetts State Legislature

on interstate commerce restrictions

as applied to oil- spill prevention statues

Coastal Zone 97

The Evolving Role of State Government

in the Prevention of Oil Spills, July 97

The International Oil Spill Conference

After the Spill: Restoring an Estuary, March 99

The International Coral Reef Conference

The Mona Island Restoration April 99

Conference on Restoration Ecology- (May 99).

The Estuarine Research Federation Conference- September (99).

OTHER

1990-1992 - Attorney Herbert S. Cohen

Law clerk, trial preparation, writing & researching memoranda,

drafting complaints, interrogatories, and other pleadings.

1991- Attorney General s Office, St. Thomas

Law Clerk for Deputy Attorney General, Paul Gimenez.

Responsibilities included working on a redraft

of the Virgin Island Code, writing memoranda, and research.

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