Director, Ghost Lands
Zachary Garmoe is a documentary filmmaker and photographer with a professional background in coastal and marine sciences. He is currently completing his MFA in Science and Natural History Filmmaking in Bozeman, Montana, and is a Graduate Fellow with the Montana Space Grant Consortium.
During his time in Bozeman, he has interned with both the Ocean Exploration Trust aboard the EV Nautilus and the Museum of the Rockies.
Prior to graduate school, he worked as an estuarine scientist for the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays, managing a continuous water quality program and monitoring forage fish populations. He also worked for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, managing a remote educational center and witnessing the rapidly eroding tidal landscape. Zachary graduated with a degree in Environmental Studies from University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2017.
His films focus on both overlooked and charismatic ecosystems, found in backyards, national parks, interstate medians, and everywhere in between.