Jeff Corwin conducted his graduate studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, obtaining a Master of Science in wildlife and fisheries conservation and doing work on bats and snakes.
19 Facts About Jeff Corwin
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Jeff Corwin was certified as an Advanced Field Medical Specialist by the US Army Academy of Health Sciences, Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
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Jeff Corwin first experienced the tropical rain forests in 1984 in Belize.
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Jeff Corwin participated in the youth action committee for the United Nations Environmental Program.
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In 1993, Jeff Corwin addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations regarding the need to conserve neotropical rain forests.
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In 1994, Jeff Corwin served as expedition naturalist for the documentary series titled The JASON Project, led by oceanographer Bob Ballard and sponsored in part by National Geographic.
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In 2003, Jeff Corwin appeared in an episode of the crime drama CSI: Miami.
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In 2003 Jeff Corwin hosted a television documentary for Animal Planet titled Giant Monsters.
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Also, in 2007, Jeff Corwin was sponsored by CNN to be an environment correspondent for an Anderson Cooper 360 special called Planet in Peril, along with co-host Sanjay Gupta.
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In 2009, Jeff Corwin partnered with Defenders of Wildlife to host the documentary series Feeling the Heat.
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In 2009 Jeff Corwin hosted a television special for MSNBC with the same title of his book Future Earth: 100 Heartbeats.
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In 2011, during the tsunami in Japan, Jeff Corwin was used as a geologist on MSNBC to help explain the tsunami.
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In 2012, Jeff Corwin starred in a Claritin commercial as himself.
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In October 2016, ABC began showing the global cruising series, Ocean Treks with Jeff Corwin, which involves ecology.
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In filming a segment of CNN's Planet in Peril with Anderson Cooper at Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center near Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on March 22,2007, Jeff Corwin was the victim of a playful elephant.
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Jeff Corwin yelled as the elephant shook its head, releasing and throwing Corwin into the shallow water in which they were standing.
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Jeff Corwin noted that the pain was so overwhelming that he nearly blacked out, and that his arm still does not work correctly.
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Jeff Corwin later posted the following summary of injuries that resulted:.
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Jeff Corwin is of Hungarian and Romanian ancestry on his father's side.