Swamp Goddess

Cathy’s lifelong romance with our Ocean began on Virginia’s southern Chesapeake Bay. Since 1976, armed with a B.S. in Biology and M.Ed. in Science (GSU – Armstrong Campus, Savannah, GA) Cathy served as a naturalist/guide for Wilderness Southeast. She also produces, writes, hosts and narrates television documentaries and her works include two Emmy-winning nature series for GPB-TV called Coastal Naturalist and Secret Seashores, of the human and natural history of Georgia’s barrier island archipelago. For three seasons she hosted and served as consulting naturalist for a multiple Telly award-winning nature series for Turner South entitled The Natural South. Most recently she co-produced Shifting Baselines that aired on GPB-TV in November 2019. Concomitantly for 15 years beginning in October 1998, Cathy worked with NOAA Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary serving as ocean science educator/translator, scientific diver, and certified pilot of the submersible DeepWorker 2000 as well as an Aquanaut. Since officially retiring from NOAA in 2014, Cathy serves locally on behalf of our great global Ocean through stewardship and advocacy with several organizations including Ocean Exchange and Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, and Tybee Island Marine Science Foundation. She also helped establish Maudlin Pond Press, LLC in 2020. Cathy serves as naturalist for SCAD’s Sustainable Design Department’s Biomimicry Class and in her spare time is the lead singer for a local band called The World Famous Crabettes. She still leads trips into the Okefenokee Swamp and other great wilderness areas in SE USA.