Mark Rauzon

Mark Rauzon is a geographer and wildlife biologist specializing in island ecology and vertebrate predator control. Formerly with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, he has studied sea birds and endangered marine mammals in California, Hawai’i, and Alaska (first visiting AK in 1971). He is also an expert in the effects of invasive animals and plants on tropical islands. He has extensive experience in restoration programs to remove rats and cats from atolls and to enhance populations of threatened seabirds and shorebirds, for which he has received the Special Achievement Award from the Pacific Seabird Bird in 2006. His management planning experience includes the master plans for several wildlife refuges for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, US Navy, and restoration programs for US Marine Corps bases. Rauzon is also a founding member of the Friends of Sausal Creek, an Oakland-based community creek advocacy group. He is the award-winning author of over 20 nonfiction science books for children and is an illustrator and photographer. Mr. Rauzon is also a research associate with the Point Reyes Bird Observatory and the former Chairman of the Pacific Seabird Group. Currently he teaches Geography at Laney College, Oakland, CA. and is involved with studying cormorants on the Bay Bridge.