About Arlo

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Arlo with a southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) on Peninsula Valdes, Argentina. The female seal is tranquilized after Arlo and fellow scientists removed a satellite tag.

Arlo Hemphill is a freelance natural history communicator and media professional offering services in biodiversity and wilderness conservation, expedition/exploration support, ocean policy, scientific diving, biological assessments and film and media.  He is a Fellow National of The Explorers Club and has been listed in Nature (Myers et al. 2000) as one of 100+ global biodiversity experts, where he is credited for his expertise pertaining to the Greater Caribbean and the Chocó-Darién-Western Ecuador biodiversity hotspots.  As a member of the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) High Seas Task Force and having served on the Steering Groups of the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, the Forum for the Conservation of the Patagonian Sea and The Sargasso Sea Alliance, Arlo has also amassed experience addressing international waters as well as the southwest Atlantic and global drift algae habitats.

In compliment to his technical expertise, Arlo also offers a diversity of talents in communications, including journalism, film production, acting, editing, Internet publishing, partnership-building and public-speaking skills.