DAVID CLARK POWELL
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EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

.....Forty years of extensive and varied experience in all facets associated with:

.....Aquatic Facility Design, Development, Operation and Management
.. . ..for successful Public Aquarium and Oceanarium Operations which included the areas of:

.....The highlights of experience in the above areas are presented as follows:

AQUARIUM DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION

AQUARIUM MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION

DESIGN OF INNOVATIVE AQUARIUM DISPLAYS

 

 SPECIMEN COLLECTING

LABORATORY OPERATION

EMPLOYMENT BACKGROUND

1998--present Aquarium Exhibit Design Consultation

1993--1998 Director of Live Exhibit Development, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, CA

1980--1993 Director of Husbandry, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, CA

1974--1980 Curator, Steinhart Aquarium, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA

1965--1974 Curator of Fishes, Sea World, San Diego, CA

1962--1965 Assistant Curator of Aquatic Biology, Steinhart Aquarium, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA

1959--1962 Head Aquarist, Marineland of the Pacific, Palos Verdes, CA

1960--1962 Bioanalyst--self employed

1961--1962 California Marine Biological Supply Co., self-employed

1958--1959 Laboratory Assistant, Hyperion Sewage Treatment Plant, City of Los Angeles, CA

1956--1957 Marine Specimen Collector (part-time), UCLA Zoology Dept., Los Angeles, CA

1953--1954 Marine Biologist, California Department of Fish and Game, Long Beach, CA

1946--1947 Medical Technician, US Army, Okinawa

1944--1946 U.S. Merchant Marine, North Atlantic & South Pacific.

 

EDUCATION

1957 University of California, Los Angeles, M.A. Zoology/Fisheries Biology
1953 University of California, Los Angeles, B.A. Zoology
1943 Friends' High School, Saffron Walden, England

 

PUBLICATIONS

Author of "A Fascination for Fish: Adventures of an Underwater Pioneer"
published by the University of California Press/Monterey Bay Aquarium, 2001
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8949.html.

 

PERSONAL DATA

Born 1927, Barberton, South Africa
Married, 2 grown children
Excellent health
Height: 5' 10", 178cm, Weight 160lbs, 72kg

 

MEMBERSHIPS

AZA Association of Zoos and Aquariums
AES American Elasmobranch Society
SPOOF Society for the Protection of Old Fishes
American Civil Liberties Union
Union of Concerned Scientists
Friends of the Monarchs
Listed in Who's Who of the West

 

REFERENCES

References will be provided upon request