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Joseph L. Nickelson
Title: Manager of Video Services
Phone: 941-388-4441 ext. 475
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Joe Nickelson is an exceptionally skilled videographer with 10 years of experience in documentary-style production. Mr. Nickelson’s experience as producer covers a wide variety of electronic media products, including Public Service Announcements, marketing videos, educational programs and broadcast material. His footage has aired on NBC Nightly News, WWSB-ABC, SNN, WTSP-CBS, WFLA-NBC, WEDU-PBS, WGCU-PBS, Discovery Channel, Nickelodeon, Animal Planet and National Geographic, as well as in numerous independent productions.
Additional experience as onsite cameraman for Al Gore’s VP debate preparation in 1996 and presidential debate preparation in 2000 demonstrated his ability to work with diverse and politically sensitive issues. As a specialist in the demands of underwater filming, Mr. Nickelson recently contributed to a National Geographic program that featured a manatee critter cam.
For the last 10 years, Mr. Nickelson has served as local producer-director for the JASON Project at Mote. JASON is an oceanographic educational program built around live satellite feeds from four locations to multiple reception sites and includes computer-interaction. The program links to 36 sites around the country and the world, enabling students to interact with researchers in the field in real time. Mr. Nickelson also served as on site director for Nickelodeon’s “The Big Help,” an environmentally focused program in whichSarasotaandSan Diegokids compared water quality.
Working with Bob Ballard’s Immersion Institute and NOAA, Mr. Nickelson has helped moved forward a project to use underwater cameras to provide continuous video feeds of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. This project is scheduled to go online in 2005.
Mr. Nickelson recently completed the production of a 30 minute ocean adventure documentary, “Ocean eXpedition.” The program followed Mote scientist and Explorers Club Member, Jim Culter as he explored the depths of three ofFlorida’s seldom-explored blue holes. The program was narrated by actor David Strathairn and was released for cable distribution on educational channels in 2004. In 2005, the original footage was incorporated in a joint Mote-WGCU-PBS production called “Blue Holes of the Gulf.” Department: Development & Communications
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