Chris Cutler

Hailing originally from the concrete-lined habitats of Chicago, Chris is a naturalist-field biologist whose researches and travels have taken him to less disturbed and more far-flung locales. Since studying biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he has worked as a field researcher, ecological consultant, and naturalist guide. He has engaged in applied ecological studies of rare and threatened species of mammals and birds with a focus on their conservation. In recent years he has conducted studies of cetaceans, seabirds and marine turtles in the Eastern Tropical Pacific in the wake of historical tuna purse-seining.

Chris has spent a great deal of time at sea, along the shores of remote archipelagos, and in habitats ranging from desert to tropical rain forest to polar ice. He is keenly interested in many aspects of the natural world. Aboard expedition cruise ships he has worked in the Arctic, the Antarctic/Sub-Antarctic, the North and South Atlantic, the Bering Sea and Alaska, and the Amazon River and other Neotropical areas. He greatly enjoys being a life-long student of the natural world.