About the Hollywood Ecologist
 Laura K. Marsh working on a script in her Amazon Base Camp, Ecuador Photo by Cindy Thorstad |
Laura K. Marsh has degrees in:
- Tropical Ecology (Ph.D. from Washington U. in St. Louis)
- Anthropology (M.A. from Washington U. in St. Louis)
- Ethological Ecology (M.A. from San Francisco State U.)
- Animal Behavior/Biology (B.S. from UC Davis)
- English Minor (at UC Davis)
* For more information, request the full C.V.!
Expertise in:
- Global climate change
- All ecological, environmental, and biological sciences
- Indigenous peoples around the world
- Old and New World tropics
- General sciences
- National laboratories and Department of Energy
- Primates and animal behavior
- Screenwriting
- Children’s books
- Scientific literature and publishing
- Bird watching
- Plant and animal taxonomy
- Plant uses around the world
- Comic books (I own a shop)
- Wetlands and watersheds
- Quantitative Habitat Analysis
(QHA developed as a Post-Doctoral study at Los Alamos National Laboratory) - University structure and politics
- Bushmeat and wildlife hunting
- Zoos and botanical gardens
Laura K. Marsh is currently working as:
- Director, Global Conservation Institute
Present project: A Taxonomic Review of the Saki Monkeys, Genus Pithecia.
This work based on Marsh’s discovery of a new saki monkey species in the Ecuadorian Amazon in 2001. - Screenwriter.
Project queries to:
Dan Halsted, MANAGE-MENT
8330 W. 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90048
USA
Phone: 323-651-2460
Fax: 323-651-2480
www.manage-ment.com
info@manage-ment.com - Fiction writer. Various projects including novels, children’s books and poetry.
- Non-fiction writer. Under contract for Primates in Fragments II
Previous publications (for journal articles, please see c.v.): Primates in Fragments - Owner, True Believers Comics & Gallery
- Journal Reviews. Professional editing of peer-reviewed science articles