Douglas David Seifert

 

OCEAN RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
May 1999 – Present Contributing Editor, DIVE Magazine (UK)
November 2000 – November 2001 Editor, OCEANS ILLUSTRATED (UK)
1996 – May 1999 Senior Contributing Editor, DIVE INTERNATIONAL (UK)
1993 – Present Expedition Coordinator, Tiny Bubbles Expeditions, Inc.
1989 – Instructor Norine Rouse Scuba Club of the Palm Beaches
   

EXHIBITIONS

2003 – November and December, SOHO HOUSE, London – One Man Show
   

PHOTOGRAPHIC AWARDS
2004 Highly Commended, Gerald Durrell Award, Image of a Great White Shark, British Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition
2003 Highly Honored, Oceans Category, Image of Sperm Whales, NATURE’S BEST FOUNDATION’s Annual Photographic Competition
2002 Winner, Oceans Category, Image of Manta Rays, NATURE’S BEST FOUNDATION’S Annual Photographic Competition
2001 Highly Commended, The Underwater World, Image of Basking Shark and Jellyfish, British Gas Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition
2000 Bronze Medal, Images of a Newborn Sperm Whale and family, “Focus on Your World” United Nations Environmental Program International Photographic Competition on the Environment 1999 – 2000
2000 Winning Image of Frogfish, National Wildlife Reader’s Best Photo Competition 30
1999 First Prize Winner, Series of Five Images, 1998/1999 Papua New Guinea Divers Association Underwater Photographic Competition
1998 Winning Image of Bottlenose Dolphin, 1998 National Wildlife Reader’s Best Photo Competition
1995 Highly Commended in Two Categories: The Underwater World & Animal Behaviour: All Other Animals, Both Images of Whale Sharks, British Gas Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition
1995 EPIC (Environmentally Aware Photographic Image Competition) Winning Image

PUBLISHED PHOTOJOURNALISM
Front Cover and Inside Page of The New York Times’ Science Times Section Illustrating “Saving a Reef for the Fish and the People”, Feature by James Gorman, June 1, 2004
“A Whale of a Shark” (Photo Essay) - Nature's Best, Spring 2004

“About a Shark” (Sharks and Shark Attacks) and “All Fishes Great and Small” (Spawning Fish Aggregations and Whale Sharks) – DIVE Magazine’s SHARK SPECIAL, Summer, 2003.  (Also Reprinted Articles: “Mouths Wide Open”, “Shaken Not Stirred”,  “Close Encounters in French Polynesia” and Provided 60% of Images in this Special Issue.)
“The Mexican” (Great White Sharks at Guadalupe Island, Mexico) – DIVE Magazine, April, 2004
“Whale Sharks in Belize” - DIVE MAGAZINE, June, 2003
“Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Shark?” (Great hammerhead, Tiger and Bull Sharks in the Bahamas) – DIVE Magazine, June 2002
“Shaken, Not Stirred” (Wearing Shark-Proof Suit) – DIVE Magazine, Nov, 2001
“Treasure of Cocos Island” – OCEANS ILLUSTRATED, Vol. 1, issue 3, Oct, 2001
“Derriere Le Masque de la Mort Blanche” (French) – PLONGEURS International, Sept/Oct, 2001
“Sharks – Close Encounters in French Polynesia” – OCEANS ILLUSTRATED, Vol. 1, issue 2, 2001
“Eagle Eyed” (Eagle Rays) – DIVE Magazine, Feb 2001
“There Be Dragons” (Komodo Dragons) – OCEANS ILLUSTRATED, Vol. 1, issue 1, Jan, 2001
“Portfolio” – SPORT DIVING Magazine (Australia), Oct/Nov, 2000
“Mouths Wide Open” (Basking Sharks) – DIVE Magazine, Nov 2000
“Portfolio” – PLONGEURS INTERNATIONAL, Sept, 2000
“Touch And Go” (Sperm Whales) – DIVE Magazine, April 2000
“Usual Suspects” (New Britain & Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea) – DIVE Magazine, Feb, 2000
“Shark Hunters” (Ron & Valerie Taylor Profile) – DIVE Magazine, Nov, 1999
“Jaws of Steel” (Saltwater Crocodiles) – DIVE Magazine, June, 1999
“Killer Day at the Office” (Orcas, Argentina) – DIVE INTERNATIONAL, Jan, 1999
“Triumph of Her Will” (Profile: Leni Riefenstahl) – DIVE INTERNATIONAL, Dec, 1998
“Man, the Aquatic Ape?” (Aquatic Ape Theory) – DIVE INTERNATIONAL, Aug, 1998
“Sympathy for the Devilfish” (Manta Rays) – DIVE INTERNATIONAL, April, 1998
 “Shark Circus?” (Shark Feeding Controversy) – DIVE INTERNATIONAL, Feb, 1998
“The Prince of Whales” (Sperm Whales) – DIVE INTERNATIONAL, Nov, 1997
“No More Great White Lies” (White Sharks) – DIVE INTERNATIONAL, July, 1997
“Shivers” (Scalloped Hammerhead Sharks) – DIVE INTERNATIONAL, April, 1997
“Loggerhead Sea Turtles” – OCEAN REALM, Summer, 1997
“Close Encounters with a New Species” (Dwarf Minke Whales) – DIVE INTERNATIONAL, Nov, 1996
“Bluefin Tuna” – OCEAN REALM, Autumn, 1996
“The Solitary Life of the Great Ocean Traveller” (Loggerhead Sea Turtles) – DIVE INTERNATIONAL, Aug, 1996
“Any Port in a Storm” (Columbus Crabs) – OCEAN REALM, Spring, 1997
“The Sirenian’s Final Aria, Part II” – OCEAN REALM, Summer, 1996
“The Sirenian’s Final Aria?” (manatees) – OCEAN REALM, Jan, 1996
“The Whale’s Whale; or the True Moby Dick”– OCEAN REALM, Sept, 1995

EDUCATION

1985 – B.A., School of Communication, The American University, Washington, D.C.

 MEMBERSHIPS

The Explorer’s Club - Fellow National, Class of 1998

American Elasmobranch Society
Society for Marine Mammalogy
Divers Alert Network
International Game Fish Association

CORPORATE

Board of Directors, Kirk A. & Dorothy P. Landon Foundation for Cancer Research