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ABOUT PETE

Through out his extensive and challenging global travels during his career as an ornithologist, biologist and environmental scientist, Pete Myers has never been without a camera in hand. Whether clambering down an obscure, impassable box canyon in New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo mountains, or hiking in Patagonia, the highlands of China or the along the nesting grounds of his beloved shorebirds in the Arctic tundra, Pete has used his lenses to record intimate moments in nature. His own back yard has yielded surprising insights into the magical world of the wild as well. His astonishing eye, quick reflexes and tireless energy give us the opportunity to share these encounters with him.

With a doctorate in the biological sciences from UC, Berkeley, Pete Myers is founder and CEO of Environmental Health Sciences, an organization engaged in advancing public understanding of environmental links to health.

Myers is also senior advisor to Commonweal and to the Jenifer Altman Foundation on environmental threats to children's health. From 1990 through the end of 2001, Myers served as Director of the W. Alton Jones Foundation in Charlottesville, Virginia, guiding the foundation's philanthropic support of work to reduce the risks of nuclear war and to protect the global environment.

Prior posts include Senior Vice President for Science at the National Audubon Society, NYC and research scientist at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Along with co-authors Dr. Theo Colborn and Dianne Dumanoski, he wrote Our Stolen Future, a book which explores the scientific basis of concern for how contamination threatens fetal development. Dr. Myers has served on the boards of the Consultative Group for Biological Diversity, a consortium of 40-plus foundations working to enhance the maintenance of biological systems and their contributions to human prosperity.