Robert Katz - Roman Gula - David Pinkham
RESEARCH LEADER
Roman Gula, Ph. D., Wildlife Biologist and Leader of the Wolf Research Project of the Carpathian Branch of International Center of Ecology, Polish Academy of Science - Roman.Gula@wp.pl
Roman Gula received his Ph.D. at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. His dissertation topic was Snow Influence on Wolf/Red Deer Relationship. He has taught courses in General Zoology and Ecology of Predators at Jagiellonian University, University of Kielce and University of Bialystok. He has served as the research biologist at the Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Science situated in the Bielowieza Forest. His primary interest is in Ecology and Management of Brown Bears and Wolves.
PROJECT DIRECTOR
Robert Katz, Professor of Art, University of Maine at Augusta - Rkatz@maine.edu
Robert Katz has travelled to Poland over a dozen times since 1989. He has explored the region of the Carpathian Mountains and created two video projects utilizing digital technology, focusing upon the social and environmental issues of the region. He is a recipient of the John Payson Fellowship, the Libra Professorship and numerous other awards. He has been President of the Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine and a visiting artist and lecturer at numerous institutions. He has taught Design at Oberlin College and Southern Illinois University and for the last nineteen years has been a Professor of Art at the University of Maine at Augusta.
MEDIA COORDINATOR
David Pinkham, Instructor of Advanced Communications and Multimedia at Oxford Hills Technical School, Norway, Maine - dpinkham@sad17.k12.me.us
The Advanced Communications and Multimedia Program is the latest of sixteen Technical Programs offered within Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School. The program covers Basic to Advanced Television Production in a state of the art studio, Multimedia Development using G4 Macintosh hardware, Final Cut Pro software, graphics applications by Adobe and Macromedia and CD/DVD development using cross-platform technologies. Mr. Pinkham designed the program in 1999, built the television studio, twelve-station G4 teaching lab, three edit rooms and graphics lab with flatbed scanner, large format printer and MacOSX Streaming Video Server. The program is open to juniors and seniors, who produce news reports, sports features and entertainment pieces for broadcast over the school's four-channel video distribution system and the local Public Access Channel. Prior to coming to Oxford Hills Mr. Pinkham spent nine years with the University of Maine System as an Instructional Media Specialist with the Education Network of Maine, working with various distance education technologies. He is also a veteran of the USAF, serving as a Telecommunications Specialist with the 3rd Mobile Communications Group.