PROfile:

Lynn Funkhouser participates in several projects to lend her expertise as a photographer and as a consultant.

RESEARCH PROJECT:

Photographer on Shiraho Coral Reef & the Proposed New Ishigaki Island Airport, Japan, with a review of the status of the coral reefs of the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan, prepared by International Marinelife Alliance Canada for Species Survival Commission, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Switzerland, which saved Shiraho's 600 year old blue coral reef from becoming an airport.

CONSULTANT PROJECTS:
  • Smithsonian Institution - Shells (1999), Ocean Planet (1995)
  • John G. Shedd Aquarium - Philippines: Coral Kingdom 1997-2002 (which became Wild Reef and opened April 2003)


PHOTO CONTEST JUDGE:
  • 12e Festival Mondial de L'lmage Sous-Marine, Juan-les-Pins, France
  • EPIC Photo Contest (Sponsored by LOUP & Shedd Aquarium)
  • SEASPACE Print Contest


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