Murry Marvin
Leader of the 1973 Mt. Kenya Ecosystem Expedition with the University of Calif.
I led a group of fifteen biologists up Mt. Kenya, East Africa on a six-week, ecosystem research project of African flora and fauna.
Cartographer-1974 Columbia University’s Peru Pre-Inca Archaeological Expedition
I was the map maker for a pre-Inca archaeological expedition which turned out to be a very important site revealing much unknown data about Pre-Inca life.
1975 habitat study of reptiles in the Amazon Basin with the University of Calif.
I spent a week in the Amazon Jungle with a reptologist studying lizards and the flora of the basin.
1976 Ecosystem Study of the Galapagos Islands with the University of Calif.
I spent two weeks studying the flora and fauna of the fragile ecosystems of fifteen islands of the Galapagos five hundred miles off the Ecuadorian Coast.
1977 Leader of the First Ascent of the West Ridge of Mt. Foraker, Alaska (17,420’)
I led a four-man, forty-seven day expedition up unclimbed west ridge of Mt. Foraker. This involved over 15,000 feet of extreme ice climbing and extended exposure to altitude. It was a success.
1977 Program Director for the Outdoor Program at the Evergreen State College in Washington State
This involved organizing Outward Bound patterned programs in the fields of climbing (ice and rock)/skiing/white water rafting and mountain related natural sciences.
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I participated in the AAI school as a student and then worked with them in continued research in snow crystalography and snow physics.
I went through the entire National Leadership School program including their extensive Instructor Program and worked for them as a full instructor for two years. I worked at the Pacific Crest Outward Bound School as a instructor for several years and then worked for a year as their Marketing Director.
2007- Experimental Research on the use of Thermography to locate heat signatures from caves for NASA
Thermal differences between cave entrances and the surrounding landscape have long been known. Cavers traditionally ridge walked in cave-likely temperate regions in cold mid-winter with a falling barometer in order to visually detect ‘fog-plumes’ of escaping subterranean air from crevices and unknown earth openings in order to locate caves. We are experimenting with a high-technology solution to this cave detection method by applying infrared thermography, a useful tool in fire detection, human body location and other building examination remote sensing to the surface of the earth. Early trials during the spring of 2005 with a Therma CAMTM B20 HSV infrared camera, even under foilage-filled and warm atmospheric conditions, have resulted in promising results in New Mexico, Missouri and Virginia. This work is in the experimental stages. The evidence of its success is presented in the matched infrared/visual images.
1978- Present, Management Analyst in Portland, OR for Hollander Consultants; an educational consulting firm.
