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Michael Charters Home Page
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- I grew up next to the ocean in Bermuda, moved with my family to Virginia, and attended schools there and in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Massachusetts. I spent sixteen months in Vietnam during the war as part of my Army service. I have been working now as a volunteer in the Paleontology lab at the George C. Page Museum for 23 years. I participated in researching wild orangutans during three Earthwatch projects in Indonesian Borneo, and then was a tour guide at the Los Angeles Zoo for six years. I have traveled to and done extensive photography in such places as Chile and Argentina, Belize, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, the Big Island of Hawaii, most of Western Europe, and the North Pole (which I visited on the Russian nuclear icebreaker Yamal in 1994). I have been studying the native vegetation of southern California for about ten years, and have also botanized in Virginia, Death Valley and the eastern Sierras. I have taken many classes, dozens of field trips with botanists from the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, the Joshua Tree Institute, the Jepson Herbarium, and UC Riverside, and hundreds of field trips on my own all over southern California. I am a long-time fan of science fiction, the Firesign Theater, travel writing, Russian history, Bob and Ray, bluegrass music, W.C. Fields and all things Irish. I am married, and as of Jan. 2007, have an eighteen-year old daughter who wants to be an actor and is attending Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. I also have two turtles, two basset hounds and a bichon frisé.
Languages
English
Address
- 286 E Alegria Ave
- Sierra Madre CA 91024 US
Contact
- Charters, Michael
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- +1 626 355 3147, Fax: +1 571 434 4620
