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Jeremy Bígwood
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3200 16th St. NW, #806, Washington, D.C. 20010 •
Tel/fax:(202) 319-9150
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bigwood@rcn.com
http://JeremyBigwood.net
Education
/Ethnobotany/Mycology
1981
Casa Nicaragüense de Español, Managua, Nicaragua ,
Spanish 1984
Escuela Francisco Marroquín, Antigua, Guatemala,
Spanish 1985
Graduate School, USDA, Washington, D.C.
Computer studies, continuing
Skills & Languages
C PC (Windows thru XP) and Mac
proficient.
C Adobe Photoshop 7.0, Adobe Image
Ready, 7.0, Altamira Group's Genuine Fractals 2.0, Adobe PageMaker,
Quark Xpress, Nikon Capture 3, Nikon View 5, MS
FrontPage 2002, Textbridge Pro,
MS
Office 2002, Corel Office Suite 2002.
C Spanish -fluent. French, German
and Russian -rudimentary skills.
Experience
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| 2000:
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Research & Writing
Grant from the John
D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
"Mycoherbicides: Biocontrol or Biowarfare". with
Sharon Stevenson, Investigative Journalist.
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Publications:
Research
published with Sharon Stevenson in Mother Jones (MoJo) Wire (USA), The
Observer (UK) and at: http://mycoherbicide.net.
Results of FOIA work published in Peru's Gestion.
Lectures & Presentations:
Drug
Policy Foundation May 20, 2000 Annual Conference
Quito,
Ecuador October 10 Conference (in Spanish)
Congress, USA -Bolivia civil conflict
Congress,
USA -Fumigation problems in Colombia.
Geo
Washington University Andean Seminar -Mycoherbicides
Expert Witness:
Member of Ecuadoran
government delegation to CAAAM - the meeting of the
Environmental Ministries of the Andean Countries. Delegation
issued a strong statement rejecting U.S. plans to spray Fusarium
mycoherbicides in the Andean regions.
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1999:
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Webmaster and Support Services,
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC),
Washington, DC |
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FOIA Researcher: Results of Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) research published in Asahi Shimbun (Japan). |
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Translator, Spanish-English. |
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FOIA Researcher funded
by Fund for Investigative Journalism. |
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FOIA Researcher on
contract with Amnesty International and
Trans-National Institute
(Holland). |
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Article published in
CAQ |
1996
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Writer (Literary
Journalism): Articles published in
The Village Voice,
Caretas (in Spanish), and Popular
Communications. |
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1986-1995
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Photojournalist
accredited with photo agency Gamma Liaison of New York and
Paris. Mainly covered political, social, and military conflict.
In combat as a photojournalist more than 65 times. Click
here for a list of photo
credit publications.
Timeperiod photo
Bigwood
appears as the "Paul" in the anthropological study of
journalists in a war zone by Mark Pedelty in "War Stories:
The Culture of Foreign Correspondents" Routledge, 1995.
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Travel
photographer: CD-ROM publications
representing my work as a photojournalist and commercial
photographer include "Portrait of El Salvador"(Microsoft). |
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Journalist:
Based in San
Salvador, El Salvador, covered political, social, health and
economic issues in Central America, Peru, and Mexico. |
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Photographs to the
wire services through their Latin American offices. |
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Bilingual editor and
exclusive photographer: Infancy and War/ Infancia y la
Guerra. UNICEF, San Salvador and Guatemala City. |
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Bilingual reporter
for Pacifica Radio. |
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1985:
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Student:
Studied Spanish in
Antigua, Guatemala, and covered the nascent Guatemalan Grupo de
Apoyo Mutuo movement. |
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Freelance
photojournalist based in Managua, Nicaragua, and Antigua,
Guatemala. |
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Researcher,
biochemistry:
The
Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, USA and the University of
Washington. Mainly with Dr. Michael Beug &
William
Scott Chilton (then at the University of
Washington) and Paul Stamets. |
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Mycotoxicologist,
chemist:
Co-authored
peer-reviewed papers published in scientific journals including
the Journal of
Ethnopharmacology, Mycotaxon, and Journal
of Chromatography. Co-authors of peer-reviewed
scientific and related papers: Michael
Beug, William Scott
Chilton, Paul Stamets,
R.Gordon Wasson, Albert
Hofmann, Tjakko Stijve, Jonathan Ott,
Patricia Neeley,
Catherine Thompson, and Gaston Guzmán,
D.
Staples, and C. Ruck. |
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Ethnobotanist:
Participated in two
scientific expeditions (1976 & 1981) in southern Mexico,
Belize, and Guatemala to obtain and analyze indigenously-used
plants for medicines. |
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Coeditor with Jonathan Ott.
Teonanacatl
Seattle, WA: Madrona Press, 1978 |
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Contributor to The
Road to Eleusis by R.G. Wasson, Albert Hofmann, Carl
Ruck, Danny Staples, Jonathan Ott.
©1978 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |
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Researcher/Librarian: The Fitz Hugh
Ludlow Memorial Library, North Beach, San Francisco.
Members of the Board: Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, Allen
Ginsberg, and William
Burroughs. Worked alongside Michael Horowitz, rare
book collector and Michael Aldrich, PhD. |
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Botany and Mycology:
experiments with Terence &
Dennis McKenna (Stropharia
spp.), Andrew
Weil, Dick Schultes and
Tim Plowman (Erythroxylum spp., Banisteriopsis
spp. Psychotria spp. and others) and Jonathan
Ott (Amanita spp.) |
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1970-1978:
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Researcher: Worked with Norman Zinberg of Harvard Medical School
under an NIH grant to study diamorphine-using "chippers"
-unaddicted recreational users. Performed
interviews and follow-up interviews all over the US for eight
years. |
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Birth
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