Curriculum Vitae

Agneta Heuman Biologist

Alte Landstrasse 100 8702 Zollikon Switzerland

+41 79 365 93 50 [email protected] ∗ 27 July 1976

EXPERIENCE IN WILDLIFE FILMMAKING:

Camera assistant for DOKUMENTARFILME.CH, Switzerland April 2013 and July – October 2013 . Filming Alpine marmots in their natural habitat (using a Panasonic AGAF 100 and Canon C300)

Volunteer at JACKSON HOLE WILDLIFE FILM FESTIVAL, USA September 21 – 28th 2013 . Information and registration desk: register delegates, give advice . Attending workshops and seminars

Internship at MARCO POLO FILM AG in Heidelberg, Germany December 4th 2012 – March 4th 2013 . Building sets for filming indoor . Filming scenes for ‘the making of’ (using a Canon XF 105) . Filming slow motion (using a SONY NEX-F700)

Volunteer at WILDSCREEN in Bristol, UK October 13th – 19th 2012 . Information and registration desk: register delegates, give advice . Attending workshops and seminars

Work experience at AMMONITE in Bristol, UK September / October 2012 (4 weeks) . Preparing clips for editing (using Adobe Premiere Pro)

1 Work experience at BIG WAVE TV in Chichester, UK September 2012 (2 weeks) . Footage and stills archive search

Camera assistant for GULO FILM PRODUCTIONS in Yellowstone Nationalpark, USA May 2012 (1 week) . Assisting Ivo Nörenberg during filming . Sound recording

Internship at SWISS NATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION (SRF) November 2011 - April 2012 . Logging rushes and archiving footage . Research and scientific advice . Assisting film crew in the field

WILDLIFE FILMMAKING COURSES ATTENDED:

All courses completed in 2012 (www.wildeye.co.uk. weekend courses):

. Research and Production . Introduction to Wildlife Filmmaking . Wildlife Sound Recording . Creative Wildlife Video Editing . Wildlife Camera Operator

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Natural history guide, Stora Karlsö Nature Reserve, Sweden May – June 2013 (7 weeks) . Guiding excursions in Swedish, English, French and German . Topics: Botany, Zoology, Archaeology, History, Geology

Project manager, PRO NATURA – the Swiss Nature Conservation Organisation April 2007 - January 2011 . Initiating, implementing and managing conservation projects . Quality management . Financial controlling

Field assistant for Redstart Species Conservation Programme, Switzerland Summer 2006 & Summer 2007 (approx. 4 months each) . Planning and implementing behavioural studies . Analysis, interpretation, report

2 Project coordinator, PROYECTO DE CONSERVACION Y MONITOREO, Costa Rica August - December 2006 . Management and implementation of a raptor monitoring programme . Coordination of local volunteers . Data management

Natural history guide, PER PEDES BERGFERIEN, Switzerland April 2004 - June 2010 (2 - 11 excursions / summer) . Planning and guiding of natural history excursions in the Alps

Sales consultant, TRANSA BACKPACKING, Switzerland July 1997 - February 2006 . Vending travel and expedition equipment

Intern, PRO NATURA Conservation Centre, Switzerland June - October 2004 . Planning and guiding of natural history excursions . Information desk and exhibition

EXPERIENCE WORKING IN THE FIELD (a selection):

Volunteer, MAUI FOREST BIRD RECOVERY PROJECT, Maui, USA October 2011 (4 weeks) . Mist-netting and banding of songbirds in a mountain forest . Observations of colour-banded birds

Volunteer, HUNGARIAN NATURAL HERITAGE TRUST, Hungary Mai 2011 (4 weeks), July 2010 (1 week) and Mai 2009 (1 week) . Monitoring butterflies in different habitats

Volunteer, future PARQUE NACIONAL DE PATAGONIA, Chile November 2009 (4 weeks) . Fence removal (to allow free movement of wild animals)

Field Assistant, SWISS BIODIVERSITY MONITORING, Switzerland Summer 2006 . Monitoring butterflies

Field Assistant, SWISS AMPHIBIAN AND REPTILE CONSERVATION PROGRAMME, Switzerland Summer 2006 (4 visits of study site) . Monitoring crested newts and sand lizards

Volunteer, birdbanding station, ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, Switzerland Summer 2004, 2003 & 2002 (approx. 3 weeks each) . Mist-netting of autumn migrants . Collection of blood samples

3 Field work for master thesis, Mauretania, Africa February – May 2003 (12 weeks) . Observation of feeding and aggressive behaviour of migrating songbrids . Bird transects

Volunteer, chamois project, UNIVERSITY OF BERN, Switzerland Winter 2002 & 2001 (2 weeks each) . Radio tracking of collared chamois

EDUCATION:

M.Sc. in Biology, University of Basel, Switzerland (1996 - 2004)

Master thesis: Habitat use and stopover duration of Palaeartic migrants in the Western Sahara

Modules: Conservation Biology, Vertebrate Biology, Parasitology, Plant Population Biology

1998 - 1999: Courses in Ecology and Plant Systematics, University of Lund, Sweden

LANGUAGES:

. German fluent . Swedish fluent . English fluent (Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency) . French fluent (exchange year in Québec) . Spanish good . Italian good

PERSONAL INTERESTS:

Wildlife observation Watching and analysing wildlife films Filming Travelling Climbing, backcountry skiing, mountaineering Writing

Switzerland, March 2014

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