Dee Fairbanks Simpson's Portfolio

The following are videos I have created:

• Training video for Oracle corporation:
  
• Training video for Oracle corporation:
  
• This video describes how to determine the correct codes to use when recording Florida Breeding Bird Atlas data.
  
• This is a promotional video I created for the Hands Across the Lagoon event.
  

The following are writing samples:

• Short editorial regarding my stance on pishing and calling for birds. I now use this piece as the basis for a field trip that I lead at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival.
• Silly piece written for the Space Coast Audubon newsletter.
• This is a humor piece that I wrote which became the basis for a lecture I give called "Profoundly Unscientific Birding Identification"
• Another humor piece, also written for the Space Coast Audubon newsletter. 
• My fitness and nature blog in which I encourage people to get outside. My motto is "Disguising fitness as nature walks since 2009"

The following photos show puppets and other educational items I have created

Osprey puppet, created for the Environmental Learning Center.

Blue crab, created for the Environmental Learning Center to teach kids about crab adaptations.

Fiddler crab, created for the Environmental Learning Center to teach kids about crab adaptations.

Relief map of Florida, created for the Environmental Learning Center. The map can be filled with water to demonstrate changing water levels. .

Hermit crab, created for the Environmental Learning Center to teach kids about crab adaptations.

Smew duck, created for the Vero Beach Theatre Guild's production of Beauty and the Beast, now being used in beginning birding lectures to demonstrate wing placement on ducks.

Barn owl, created for the Vero Beach Theatre Guild's production of Oklaholma, now being used in beginning birding lectures to demonstrate owl adaptation to human presence. This prop also demonstrates the concept of recycling objects, in this case it was made out paper mache (stale flour and newspaper) over a soda bottle, a piece of a cardboard box, and a butter container.

Red-bellied woodpecker puppet. Created for my beginning birding presentation, used to show the distinct flight pattern of woodpeckers.

Palm warbler puppet. Created for my beginning birding presentation, used to show the tail-pumping behavior that helps identify the species.

I try to use humor to make keep my presentations interesting and effective. This is a prop that I created to demonstrate how doves often can be identified by the fact that their heads strongly resemble a turkey baster. This prop also demonstrates the concept of recycling objects, in this case an actual turkey baster.

 Spotted sea trout. Originally used for an interpretive dance prop, and later donated to the Environmental Learning Center.

Wood duck puppet, created for the Environmental Learning Center to teach kids about bird beaks. This puppet also demonstrates the concept of recycling objects, in this case it was made out of recycled clothing.