Scripps Institution of Oceanography/NOAA
On Assignment, Joshua Tree National Park
Duke George Brady is an American/Canadian Biologist, Wilderness Guide and Visual Media Artist currently working across Texas, California and Alaska.
From an early age, Duke was near-feral and mostly barefoot growing up in Maui, Hawaii. His mother said that he cried on the first day of school when we was forced to wear flip flops to class. By his teen years, he was assisting on private whitewater excursions in the canyon lands of the Southwest United States and going on multi-day backpacking trips with his grandfather’s 35mm Nikkormat.
Duke attended college in the Pacific Northwest with an interest in combining his passions of art and nature. In his first year his professor received a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, and recruited Duke to perform science-themed music during her keynote address at the global ATB tropical biology conference in Panama City, Panama. This and subsequent performances went on to be included in TED talks, noted in the New York Times, and included in published works regarding the intersectionality of Science and Art.
After earning his Bachelor of Communications in the study of documentary film and visual arts, Duke earned a second degree in Environmental Science, focusing on graduate level studies in ecology. During his last semester, he was one of four students chosen to work under a National Geographic grant researching entomology in Chiapas, Mexico, and produce photographic field identification guides.
Duke’s interests and experiences led him to participate in multiple Survival Challenges for the Discovery Channel network, and has incorporated his science background into media and production projects for TV and commercials.
Focusing on strategic and science communications, Duke is currently applying his background in film and photography to write, produce, and direct multimedia projects for NASA, Axiom Space, Felix and Paul VR Studios, and others.
Based in Texas, Duke occasionally gets to escape the second biggest state and guide expeditions as a naturalist interpreter, from South America to the Sub Arctic.