SOPHIE WEBB 400 Farmer St., Felton, CA 95018 USA Phone: (831) 335-2353 Cell: (831) 252-6689 email: sophie at oikonos dot org Skip to Science or Art and Writing Link to Gallery

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION

1983 Boston University, BA Cum Laude, General Biology

1980/81 Courses in Biological illustration. Museum of Comparative
Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge MA.

ECOLOGY APPOINTMENTS

July-December 2006 STAR Cruise Bird Observer NOAA South West Fisheries Science Center

May 2006 NMFS Rockfish cruise. Seabird, marine mammal census PRBO

2005-present Gulf of the Farallones cruises. Seabird marine Mammal census. Point Reyes Bird Observatory, (PRBO)

2004-present Wind to Whales cruise. Seabird, marine mammal census, University California Santa Cruz.

December 2005- January 2006 Ornithology Lecturer. Tourist cruise Antarctica. Clipper Cruise Line

August-December 2005 PICEAS cruise, Bird Observer NOAA South West Fisheries Science Center

July 2005 CSCAPE cruise, Senior Bird Observer. NOAA SWFSC

May 2005 NMFS Rockfish cruise. Seabird, marine mammal census PRBO

July-August 2004 Bering Sea cruise. Seabird, marine mammal census Dr. George Hunt, UC Irvine

June-July 2004 North Atlantic Marine mammal census. NOAA/NMFS cruise

May 2004 NMFS Rockfish cruise. Seabird, census marine mammal PRBO

July-December 2003 STAR cruise. Bird Observer. NOAA SWFSC

May 2003 NMFS Rockfish cruise. Seabird, marine mammal Census PRBO

Oct-Dec 2002 Biologist Seabird census. NOAA HICEAS cruise, SWFS

2003 Co-founder and board member of Oikonos

May-June 2002 Biologist Seabird Census for Dr. G Hunt. Aleutian Islands, AK

March 2002 Biologist: Seabird Census for PRBO, Calcofi Cruise, CA

Dec-Jan 2001/2002 Biologist: Ecology of the Adelie Penguin, Ross Island Antarctica

October 2001 Biologist: Seabird Census PRBO, Calcofi cruise, CA

April/May 2001 Biologist: Seabird Census for PRBO. Rockfish cruise, CA

March 2001 Artist on RV Gould. Antarctic Peninsula. NSF artist and writers grant

Dec/Jan 2000/2001 Biologist, Ecology of the Adelie Penguin, Ross Island Antarctica

Nov. 2000 Field trip leader for ABA. Clipper Cruise, Chilean Fjords.

July-Sept. 2000 Biologist: Seabird census. Star Oceanic Cruise. SW Fisheries.

June 2000 Field trip leader, ABA conference, Ft Collins, Colorado.

April-May 2000 Coastal Marsh Project. PRBO

July 1999 Field trip leader. ABA conference, Tucson, AZ.

1996-present Trip leader, Shearwater Journeys, CA.

Dec/Jan 1998/99 Biologist, Ecology of the Adelie Penguin, Ross Island Antarctica with
Dr. David Ainley.

Dec/Jan 1997/98 Biologist, Ecology of the Adelie Penguin, Ross Island Antarctica with
Dr. David Ainley.

Dec/Jan 1996/97 Biologist, Ecology of the Adelie Penguin, Ross Island Antarctica with
Dr. David Ainley.

Jul/Aug 1995 Biologist: Seabird Census for PRBO. NSF Polar Duke positioning cruise
WA to Punta Arenas, Chile.

March 1995 Instructor for PRBO. Monitoring techniques for landbirds in AZ.

Sep/Dec 1994 Biologist: Bird inventory for TREX, Parque Madidi, La Paz, Bolivia.

Jun/Aug 1994 Biologist: Troy Ecological Research Associates (TERA). AK

Mar/Apr1994 Biologist:Seabird census for PRBO. NOAA Surveyor positioning cruise,
Chile to SanDiego, CA.

Jun/Aug 1993 Biologist:. TERA. Prudhoe Bay, AK.

Apr 1992 Instructor. Course in monitoring techniques for landbirds.
PRBO,Smithsonian, USFWS, SEDUE, and Pronatura-Chiapas, Chiapas,
Mexico.

Oct/Dec1991 Biologist: Seabird census. Eastern Pacific Oceanic Cruise, PRBO.

Jun/Aug Bilogist. Landbird census. PRBO Cal. Trans. Project.

Jan/Mar 1988 Biologist: Seabird Census. Waters off western Mexico. Kelton
Foundation.

Aug/Nov 1986 Farallon Island Migration Program. PRBO

May/Jun 1986 Biologist: Long Point Bird Observatory. Ontario, Canada.

Jan 1986 Biologist: Bird and mammal census. Victoria Conservation and Forestry
Service, Victoria, Australia.

Oct1985/Jan1986 Biologist: Barren Grounds Bird Observatory, Jamberoo, NSW,
Australia.

Aug/Oct 1985 Biologist: Behavior and Ecology of the Satin Bower Bird, Wallaby Creek,
NSW, Australia.

Jul/Aug 1985 Biologist: Farallon Island seabird research program. PRBO

May/Jul 1985 Biologist: Behavior of the Barn Swallow, Cranberry Lake Biological
Station.

Sep/Dec 1984 Interpretive naturalist, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Kempton, PA.

Jun/Aug 1984 Foreign fisheries observer for NMFS. Gulf of Alalska.

Dec 1983 Biologist: Behavior and ecology of Galapagos Mockingbirds, Galapagos,
Ecuador.

Sep/Dec 1983 Biologist: Ecology of birds in California coastal scrub, PRBO Palomarin
Field Station. Bolinas, CA.

May/Aug 1983 Biologist: Ecology and breeding biology of the Flammulated Owl, Zuni
Mts., NM.

Apr 1983 Biologist: Seabird census during ground fish survey. Manomet Bird
Observatory, Manomet, MA.

1979-1983 Volunteer New England Aquarium curatorial department. Boston, MA.

ART AND WRITING APPOINTMENTS

2004 Text and illustrations for children's book Looking for Seabirds: Journal from an Alaskan Voyage, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, MA
Parent s Choice Silver honor award
Orbis Pictus recommended Book
Outstanding Science and trade books K-12
Maine Student Book award
New York Public Library 100children's books to read

2005 illustrations for regional guide to birds of Brazil. New York Zoological society

Nov 2004 Taught field sketching, on ID panel at Central valley Birding Festival

Oct 2004 Taught field sketching course at Sea and sage Audubon optics festival

2003 Commissioned for 60+ illustrations of California birds for the
Napa Solano Counties' Breeding bird Atlas.

2004 Commissioned for Color Plates for A Guide to the Birds
of Peru Princeton University Press.

Sept 2000 Text and illustrations for children's book My Season with
Penguins: An Antarctic Journal Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, MA.
Sibert Honor Award
Parent 's Choice Honor Award
International Reader's Association 1st in Children's non-fiction
National Parenting Publications Honor Award
Nominated by Bay Area Book Reviewers Association

1998 Illustrations for A Bird-finding Guide to Mexico, Steve N.G.
Howell Cornell University Press, 1998.

!998 Hummingbird illustrations for update of the National Geographic
Society Field Guide to the Birds of North America.

1995/96 Night-bird plates for an update of A Guide to the birds of
Venezuela, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

Mar 1995 A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central
America, Oxford University Press. 71 color plates, 35 black and white illustrations.

Aug/ Sep1993 Illustrations/ photos/paste up for beached bird and
marine mammal manual. PRBO and Gulf of the Farallones publication.

1993 Illustrations for Monterey County Breeding Bird Atlas.

1992-present Black and white and color illustrations for a variety
of magazines, catalogues, journals and commissions.

EXHIBITIONS

June30-July 18 WEBBWORKS, FAWK gallery, Provincetown MA

Sept 2002 North American Ornithological Conference Art show, New Orleans LA

Aug/Sept 2002 Stinson Beach Library Children's book illustration
show (local Authors/illustrators)

1996 Guild of Scientific Illustrators Show celebrating the 150th
anniversary of the Smithsonian. Smithsonian Washington, DC.

Aug/Sep1995 Cherrystone Gallery, "Original Paintings Illustrating A
Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America."

1995-1997 Aves del Sol Gallery, Kerrville, TX.

SCIENCE JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
On request
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SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
USFWS Master Bird Banding Permit
BHS assistant instructor certification
NAFTA fitness instructor certification
NAFTA nutrition certification
CPR
NAUI certification

FOREIGN TRAVEL EXPERIENCE
Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Panama, Ecuador, Bolivia,
Chile, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, Spain,
Antarctica.