Voyage of the Odyssey

The Voyage of the Odyssey was a 5.5-year global scientific and education expedition studying whales and the health of the world’s oceans. Led by biologist Dr. Roger Payne of the Ocean Alliance, I developed and implemented technologies to communicate and share the expedition via the internet to a global audience through PBS (over 1 million visitors per year).

I sailed around the world with scientists documenting the expedition in 22 countries over 87,000 nautical miles.

Website – http://www.pbs.org/odyssey

Roles:

• Producer / Director: Produced, Directed, Filmed and Edited over 50 short educational documentary films (3-15 minutes in length), produced 500 audio reports called ‘Odyssey Logs’ (3-10 minutes in duration) and 5 educational interactive DVDs. Responsible for content produced on the expedition in line with PBS national editorial policies.
• Video and Photojournalist: Responsible for documenting the expedition. Shot video for television documentaries and provided footage and photographs to PBS, National Geographic News, Discovery Channel Canada, SCIENCE Magazine, EmTV in Papua New Guinea, Channel Ten Australia, ABC Australia, BBC News, SBC Seychelles, MTV Maldives, Young Asia Television-Sri Lanka, RAI Italy, Sky News Italy, Boston Globe and Reuters News & Television (Africa Journal).
• Media Co-ordination: Coordinated media outreach programs with local and national governmental officials and non-governmental organizations. Created partnerships with international institutions such as WWF (US, PNG, Australia & Spain), the Papua New Guinea National Museum, Museum of Western Australia, Royal Melbourne Zoo,  Northern Territory Museum, Perth Zoo, Acquario di Genova (Italy), Environmental Investigation Agency (UK), International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), Tethys Institute (Italy), Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute (Greece), SECAC (Canary Islands, Spain), ACCOBAMS (Monaco), Museo Elder (Spain) and Archelon (Greece).
• Technical Development & Programmer: Directed, programmed and designed the PBS website using Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand and Flash while onboard the Research Vessel Odyssey.  Designed and developed a multimedia field production studio to digitally film and catalogue the daily events of the expedition and upload media via satellite from the ship directly to the PBS Online web servers in Washington.