From the freezing climes of Antarctica and Greenland to the heat and humidity of the Amazon, Chuck Davis has worked as a specialist in filming on, under and around the ocean and other aquatic environments. Davis holds degrees in fisheries biology from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and in filmmaking from the Brooks Institute of Photographic Art and Science in Santa Barbara, California. He has over 30 years active diving experience in worldwide locations. The main thrust in Davis' personal work is helping to stimulate marine environmental awareness and conservation via the use of marine and underwater imagery.
Cinematography
	Chuck Davis has worked as a director of photography and/or camera operator on several IMAX and IMAX-DOME feature documentaries such as RING OF FIRE (undersea lava scenes), SEARCH FOR THE GREAT SHARKS, the Academy Award-nominated ALASKA: SPIRIT OF THE WILD, WHALES, THE GREATEST PLACES, and AMAZING JOURNEYS. He also filmed underwater footage in Monterey Bay for the Academy Award nominated IMAX film, THE LIVING SEA. Davis worked as an underwater camera operator on the Warner Brothers feature film, SPHERE and his production experience includes work on C.L.I.O. Award-winning commercials and CINE Golden Eagle Award-winning documentaries. He is currently working as director of photography for a new one-hour PBS television documentary about gray whales which is being produced by Jean-Michel Cousteau. Davis' other assignments have included some 17 filming expeditions worldwide for the Cousteau Society television programs as a cameraman aboard vessels Alcyone, Calypso, and special flying teams. For other U.S. and foreign producers he has filmed for ABC, CBS, PBS and Discovery/Learning Channel network documentaries as well as theatrical movies and television commercials.
Published Works
	Davis' photographs have been widely published in magazines such as: LIFE, Audubon, National Geographic, Natural History, Smithsonian, Time, Scientific American, National Wildlife, Defenders of Wildlife, Ranger Rick, Terre Sauvage, ORION, Outside, Ocean Realm, BBC Wildlife, Nature's Best, NRDC's OnEarth , the Ocean Conservancy's Blue Planet, and Sierra Club Books. His photographs have also appeared in numerous Cousteau Society publications such as the Calypso Log, Dolphin Log, and books such as Cousteau's Papua New Guinea Journey, The Great White Shark and Australia Journey. Davis is the author/photographer of California Reefs (Chronicle Books).
Still Photography
	Davis' fine art prints are sold by a number of galleries including The Ansel Adams Gallery, The Christopher Bell Collection (both in Monterey) and The Oceans Gallery in Los Angeles; his photographs are also part of several corporate and private foundation collections. Davis' work has been exhibited in multi-photographer shows at Nikon House/New York, the Majorie Evans Gallery/Carmel, CA; the Alvarado Gallery/Monterey, CA, The Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, The San Francisco International Airport/Division of Cultural Affairs and National Geographic Society's Explorer's Hall, Washington, D.C.