Photographer Ethan Welty in action, hanging precariously over a canyon in the North Cascades. © Yoav Bar-Ness

Born in 1986. Raised in France. Earned BS degrees in Physics and Mathematical Biology at the University of Washington, in Seattle, while working as photo editor and photographer for the school's daily newspaper. Snorkeled northwest rivers and mapped fish distributions for USGS. Climbs mountains. Bakes bread. Speaks English, French and some Spanish. Walks, talks, eats and photographs his way across continents.

I recently moved to Boulder to start at PhD at the University of Colorado, where I am studying tidewater glacier dynamics (in Alaska) while developing scientific photography methods for both my own research and citizen science initiatives.

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