Frederick Boyce Email & Phone Number

Atlantic Beach, Nc, Us

Pine Knoll Shores, Nc

Responsible for daily care and maintenance of animals and exhibits in the Aquarium's collection of reptiles, especially snakes and crocodilians, as well as other animals, including fish and invertebrates housed within reptile exhibits. Working with veterinarians in the handling and treatment of animals, especially venomous snakes, establishing quarantine and emergency protocols. Collection planning and exhibit conception for reptiles and amphibians, life support systems, record-keeping, assisting and covering for other aquarists in the care of freshwater and marine animals. Supervision of amphibian collection and coordination of Aquarium involvement in reptile and amphibian conservation efforts statewide. Networking and whenever practicable collaborating with other herpetologists and institutions.

Thurmont, Md

Responsible for daily care and maintenance of large collection of reptiles, especially venomous snakes and crocodilians. Primary responsibility - the Giant Reptiles complex, including reticulated pythons over 20 ft. in length, African rock pythons, green and yellow anacondas, Burmese and Ceylonese pythons, varanids and giant tortoises. Worked extensively with crocodilians plus elapid, viperid and colubrid snakes and large monitor lizards (Varanidae), including Varanus salvadorii. Also hand-painted decorative backgrounds in many of the reptile exhibits.

Patrick County, Va (Bull Mountain)

Developed and presented educational on-site programs about reptiles and amphibians for schools, libraries, museums, veterans, boy scouts, EMS and law enforcement personnel and other groups and organizations. Programs all featured live snake demonstrations with venomous species from the region, as well as various native snakes and large constrictors. Appeared regularly on local radio station answering callers' questions about snakes on the air. Maintained collection of exotic venomous reptiles used in mobile display, including gaboon and rhinoceros vipers. Managed captive breeding program, wildlife rehab and reptile rescue and conducted extensive field work in the area, particularly with Crotalus horridus.

Charlottesville, Va

Responsible for nearly every aspect of the operation and direction of this nationally-recognized 501(c)-3 non-profit organization that excelled in the presentation of diverse and non-commercial musical concerts and related events in an intimate listening atmosphere. The world's top performers of acoustic and traditional music, including Doc Watson, Mike Seeger, Bela Fleck and Tony Trischka, Tim O'Brien, Vassar Clements, Peter Rowan, John Hartford, Tony Rice, Darol Anger and Mike Marshall, Pierre Bensusan, Paddy Keenan, Pat Kilbride, Kevin Burke, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Old Crow Medicine Show, performed regularly, along with a host of international performers from Africa, Asia, South America, Europe and the Celtic lands. Classical, jazz and blues artists were also featured, including cellist Matt Haimovitz, Pinetop Perkins and John Jackson. Responsible for booking and scheduling artists, publicity, coordination of volunteer staff, arranging performer hospitality and sponsors, fundraising, improvements to the physical space and infrastructure, live sound and recording.Emcee and host of the weekly live-broadcast program on WTJU-FM (see below), the "Prism Radio Coffeehouse" every Saturday night from May 1992- Sept. 2004.

Charlottesville, Va

In association with the Prism coffeehouse, devised and installed stereo broadcast loop donated by Sprint for conducting live broadcast performances from the Prism on a weekly basis from 1992-2004. Responsible for conducting and recording live interviews, including on-site interviews for University of Virginia and other local figures for National Public Radio (Rita Dove, Larry Sabato, among others), live in-studio performances by musicians, including Dave Matthews, recording of station announcements and promos, coordination and scheduling of 18 hours of folk and traditional music programs each week, including hosting programs and the Prism live broadcasts. Devising and implementing new and original programs, some of which are still in the station schedule.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Biology, Physical Anthropology, English, Music

Biology

After my freshman year traveled to Kenya to participate in trypanosomiasis study in Nairobi and in the field near Lake Victoria. Collected.